Screening of “The Broken Cross” documentary at Dar Al-Assad

The documentary film “The Broken Cross” was screened on Saturday at Dar Al-Assad for Culture and Arts, in the presence of religious, diplomatic, social and media figures.

The film reveals the secrets of the displacement of Christians from the villages of Idlib Governorate by armed terrorist organizations, especially the so-called (Turkistan Islamic Party), with the complicity of the US State Department, in an effort to achieve its project of targeting the Christians of the East.

The film is produced by the Anzour Foundation for Artistic Production. The idea of the  documentary comes from  Dr. Muhammad Kamal Al-Jaffa, the text is by Mahmoud Abdel Karim, directed by Yzan Anzour, and the general supervision of the film  by director and producer Najdat Ismail Anzour.

In his speech, director Najdat Anzour said: This short film narrates some of the facts of the Syrian tragedy. The film aims to shed light on the displacement of our Christian people from their villages, towns and monasteries in Idlib Governorate at the hands of armed terrorist organizations, led by the so-called “Turkistan Islamic Party”. There is nothing crueler and more bitter than uprooting a person from his land, home, environment, and memory, and this is unfortunately what happened to more than 50,000 Syrian Christians, who lived in peace, love, and deep harmony with the components of their Syrian society.”

He added: “This film is the beginning of restoring the facts as they happened without bias, and not as they were promoted, with the aim of enlightening public opinion with the truth of the Syrian tragedy, where a country was destroyed and an entire people were displaced. The film is considered as an introduction to presenting what has been done to restore the unity of our country, land, people and institutions.”

In turn, the strategic military and political analyst and contributor to the film, Dr. Muhammad Kamal Al-Jaffa, said: The idea of the film was inspired by monitoring, documenting, and tracking the behavior and performance of terrorist organizations during the war on Syria.

Al-Jaffa reviewed the most important pivotal events from the beginning of the events in Syria until now. He pointed to the heavy and exorbitant prices that Christians paid as a result of the killings and displacement, which reveals the plan of the operators of these groups to uproot the Christian component from their homeland, Syria.

In turn, journalist Ghassan Al-Shami confirmed that the movie represents a symbol as “broken” here is a symbol of the pain of the Christians of this region, and the cross is a symbol of salvation and resurrection. Syria has been crucified for thirteen years and suffers from calamities, but like the cross it is trying to resurrect, and after all these calamities it will rise again from the ground.

As part of the producing company’s efforts to screen its film in the Arab and international markets to achieve its humanitarian goals, the film was screened last month under the auspices of the National Committee for Syrian Expatriates in the Netherlands in the presence of religious, diplomatic and social figures, in addition to other screenings being prepared in Belgium, Germany and Canada. Coordination is also underway with a number of Arab and foreign satellite channels to broadcast the documentary on their screens.

Inas Abdulkareem