When he was a student in film school, Feras Fayyad listed on a card the awards ceremonies he planned to attend one day and kept it in his wallet.
Years later, when war broke out, the Syrian filmmaker was arrested, held for nine months and tortured.
He escaped to Turkey when he was finally released and is now based in Copenhagen and California.
With his latest movie, Last Men in Aleppo, about the fearless White Helmets, a citizen collective dedicated to rescuing bombing victims from rubble, Fayyad ticked off the lead item on the card in his wallet — he is…
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