BYkids: Out Of Aleppo (2019)

Mohammad Shasho (age 18) made the perilous journey from Syria to Berlin and struggles with his family to set up a new life. Mentored by award-winning documentary filmmaker Anja Baron, Mohammad finds his own voice and gives voice to his fellow refugees. He explores loss, art and hope in his debut film. Caught between painful remembrance and hope for the future, Mohammad's family simultaneously celebrates safety, longs for home and adjusts to their new life in Germany. As Mohammad and his family work to reclaim a sense of normalcy, a deadly attack at a Berlin Christmas market in 2016 fills them with the familiar sense of dread that danger lurks everywhere. Despite this disruption and the constant desire to return home, Mohammad anchors himself in a guiding principle: "Ride it, don't fight it."