pass by phenomenain Barcelona, And it’s common to find a long queue, but tonight’s different. They’re passing for the first timereturn to Raqqa, It’s a terrifying true story of captivity, but it’s also a documentary that crosses the borders of Syria and tells us about the profession of journalism, wars and freedom.
There are no empty seats in the cinema, where more than 400 people meet. “I hope to understand how a person with these characteristics can endure an abduction and above all how to overcome it and even come back. “Being there and coming back is real courage,” he said. Alfredo Calatrava A 56-year-old reader invited to preview the documentary he directed. Albert Sole and Raúl Cuevas.
Experienced war correspondent and correspondent Marc Marginedas Captured on September 4, 2013 by Islamic State and was released 178 long days Then, it embodies the best of a profession. Another reader commented, “Journalists’ work is very important and while they’re the only way for us to find out what’s really going on, it’s not been given due attention lately.” Lydia Segura, He has a 20-year-old son who studies journalism. “Oh, it’s frightening to think that he might one day decide to cover a war conflict… Fortunately, he’s more interested in European politics,” he added with relief.
“I knew we were going to tell him not to come back”
The Marginedas family went to the gate a mixture of anger and pride. “I don’t think that[watching the documentary]particularly impressed me because I always had a hope that everything would end well. I knew my brother was so strong, that he would endure,” he assured before watching brother George, who learned about the documentary project while everything was already recorded. “He just said he knew we were going to tell my sister not to come back, that it was too dangerous,” he admitted with a resigned grimace.
Marc’s profession is unstoppable and his family has been unable to do anything but support him. “I lift my heart to heaven and give thanks because Marcos – that’s what we call him at home – with us; also thank you because the experience was very difficult but it allowed us to meet people of great strength and generosity, like (James) Foley’s mother,” explained the war correspondent’s sister, Cristina Marginedas next to the ‘photo call’ as people enter and occupy all the seats.
There was one person, perhaps the only one, who knew Raqqa very well, among those waiting to take a photo with the reporter. judicial Husam Allahad and a Syrian refugee. “I work in front of a movie theater and was surprised to see the poster because it’s my city. “I remember very well the abduction of journalists and aid workers,” he said. Arrived in Barcelona in 2016 six months later A refugee camp in Athens.
Hossam spoke to Marginedas for a few minutes about Raqqa, where his parents and five siblings live. Something prompted him to greet the journalist, perhaps to feel closer to his people. They ended their short chat with a selfie. “You speak Arabic very well, uncle!”, he added with a broad smile, visibly impressed by what he was about to see on the big screen: a conflict that had done so much damage.A drama with no solution on the horizon.
Source: Informacion
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