Silent Death on a Syrian Journey

Film Info

Film Year: 2017

Film Duration: 15 min

Country: Turkey

Language: English

Director

Mouhssine Ennaimi

Film Category

Best Producer

Synopsis

This short documentary exposes a booming illegal trade in the Middle East: organ trafficking. Producer/Director Mouhssine Ennaimi visits Lebanon where hundreds of thousands of desperately poor Syrians have taken refuge. With little money for food and shelter, Abu Ahmed and Abdallah have sold their kidneys to organ traffickers. One of them was given only a fraction of the sum promised and now faces health complications. The other one is recovering in a filthy room in a dirty slum hoping to be smuggled to Europe by the organ trafficker.