DON’T FORGET THEM is a very honest and intense documentary.
It deals with the story of a doctor, a volunteer, traveling to the refugee camps near Duhok, Kurdistan in order to help with the medical need there.
You suddenly can feel involved in the lives of the refuges because of the point of view of the main “character” who is an insider in this community, a doctor taking care of them. So you have the direct experience of this person and his narrative voice let us to live inside this camps of refugees.
The fact that doctor is directly involved in this story let the audience feel strongly the truth of the cruelties related to the Fighting in Northern Syria, in a very authentic way.
There are also several interviews to other volunteers working on that camps, most of them took part of “Love for the least” a MOVEMENT of missionary work. Through their words you can discover the consequences of the fighting in Northern Syria on these refugees: the condition of their lives in the camps in which also the rain can be a big problem, the danger for their life and all the health’s problems, the condition of the children who have the “memory of the war”, “a memory is not easy to live with". Everything is very different from how you can imagine and stronger than anything you can watch in TV news.
One of the person in the documentary says: “ We need to show the people what we have here, what we are doing here, but we still need human resources.”
In this sentence there is maybe the sense of this film.
Volunteers work to give an hope to children and people in this camps through education and forms of job to do.
“We cannot change the past, but we can create a better future”, this is the aim.
And the final football match between children let us hope this aim can be real.
Even if the budget of this independent film is not high, the cinematography is always refined and elegant and never suffer this condition.