I'm now back to watching For Sama, which is up for best documentary. It's due back at the library in three days, so I have to finish it up. But it's so hard-hitting that I may not finish it tonight.
It's a documentary that a Syrian mother makes for her infant daughter during the bombings around Aleppo. The woman's husband is a doctor who is needed at all times, so they live at the hospital. The baby girl, Sama, wakes up some mornings worried only about her bottle while you can hear bombings in their immediate surroundings. Yet they go on with their lives as best they can.
Even when there are joyous moments, such as when the mother finds out she's pregnant again, you can feel the world outside threatening to destroy everything they know.