Les Passeurs de

From 2012 to 2016, the rebellious suburb of Daraya suffered from a severe siege imposed by Damascus. Four years of descent into hell, marked by barrel bomb attacks, chemical gas assaults, and enduring starvation. Facing the violence of the Bashar al-Assad regime, around forty Syrian revolutionary youths undertook an extraordinary endeavor to extract thousands of buried works from under the rubble, collecting them in a secret library housed in an underground cellar in the city. Their resistance through books is symbolic, representing an absolute rejection of any form of political or religious domination. It embodies this third voice between Damascus and Daesh, born out of the peaceful protests at the beginning of the anti-Assad uprising in 2011, which is now threatened by war suffocating it. This story, resulting from Skype exchanges between a French journalist and activist rebels, is a hymn to individual freedom, tolerance, and the power of literature.