Name: Smuggling 23 Minutes of Revolution
Genre: Documentary
Duration: 23 min
Cast: Fidaa al-Hourani

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A smuggled camera slips into the heart of Hama. Amid hidden faces and disguised voices, one woman stands unmasked: Fidaa Al Hourani: doctor and activist. In the first broadcast film about the Syrian revolution, she risks her life to speak.

Smuggling 23 Minutes of Revolution (2011)

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