The Journalist and Her Jailers (2023)
The Journalist and Her Jailers explores what this local court in Germany can really accomplish. Can it actually provide some measure of justice for Luna Watfa and the tens of thousands of Syrians who have been detained, tortured and disappeared by Bashar al-Assad’s government, and thereby perhaps even provide a blueprint for future war crimes prosecutions worldwide? To engage with this question, Luna must first seek to understand what justice even means in this context, for the plaintiffs, witnesses, the defendants- and for herself.
Director: Adithya Sambamurthy
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Luna Watfa as Self |
| Directing | Adithya Sambamurthy | Director |
| Writing | Luna Watfa | Writer |
| Writing | Adithya Sambamurthy | Writer |
| Production | Alex Tondowski | Producer |
| Production | Ira Tondowski | Producer |
| Editing | Petja von Bredow | Editor |
| Camera | Adithya Sambamurthy | Director of Photography |
| Sound | Karl Atteln | Sound Designer |
| Sound | Frank Schreiber | Original Music Composer |
| Crew | Bernd Seidl | Commissioning Editor |
| Crew | Martin Kowalczyk | Commissioning Editor |