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18A(18A)

Synopsis

Arabic-language Documentary. An account of life in Aleppo, Syria during the Battle of Aleppo, focusing on the struggles of a young journalist and her husband, a doctor who established an impromptu hospital in the warzone.

Content elements

  • Infrequent use of profanity and vulgar expressions
  • Pervasive depictions of gun, weapons, and hand-to-hand violence in a documentary context - much blood and detail
  • Pervasive depictions of injury, corpses, and surgery, many involving children and infants - much blood, detail, and suffering;

Thematic elements

  • The atrocities of war
  • Survival in a warzone
  • Coping with trauma

Classification rationale

Rated 18A for pervasive, detailed depictions of death and injury, some involving children

Classification date

February 24, 2020

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