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Crisis Action's impact strategy aimed to ensure that Aleppo's fate is not repeated across Syria. It will did this by using the Sundance award-winning documentary film, The Last Men In Aleppo, to build US support for newly-proposed no-fighting zones where civilians can escape attacks, as well as educating hundreds of newly-elected MPs across Europe about Aleppo and the power they have to prevent it from happening again.
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Last Men balances the visceral and the melancholy.
Moving and suspenseful.
[It] give(s) chilling context to the weight of how long these conflicts have raged.
Overall, the "you are there" footage lends the film a more journalistic than artistic tone, yet the emotional effect is intimate and unforgettably gripping.
A tightly focused, on-the-ground account of three men who serve in the White Helmets.
While "Last Men in Aleppo" could stand a trim here and there, it mostly uses its length to good and heart-rending effect ...
A cool, objective film critic could complain that Last Men in Aleppo becomes repetitious, but it's that repetition that eats into your mind and makes objectivity foolish.
Last Men In Aleppo has the upsetting urgency of breaking news: There are moments that could have come straight from a live stream, given the violence that's still rocking Syria, months after Fayyad's cameras stopped rolling.
An unflinching depiction of life in a vulnerable city, a place where innocents are constantly under attack, and the few people doing their best to protect it.
A documentary both urgent and mournful ...
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