BIRDS OF WAR
Janay Boulos, Abd Alkader Habak / United Kingdom, Syria, Lebanon / 2026 / 85 min
From besieged Aleppo to the confines of a London newsroom, Lebanese journalist Janay Boulos and Syrian activist /cameraman Abd Alkader Habak retrace their love story, using their vast personal archives stretching over 13 years of revolutions, war and
About the film
BIRDS OF WAR follows London-based Lebanese journalist, Janay, and Syrian activist Habak over 13 years, using personal archives to tell a love story across war, revolutions and exile. Young BBC reporter Janay Boulos first contacts Syrian cameraman Abd Alkader Habak (“Habak”) for footage during the final months of the four-year battle for Aleppo in 2016, one of the bloodiest and most decisive turning points in Syria’s brutal civil war. Their professional relationship deepens as Janay discovers more about the extraordinary young man documenting the violence for her reports. Through texts, video
ProducerSonja Henrici
