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.