Tadmor
From the Middle East & North Africa • 1h 43m
Directed by Monika Borgmann and Lokman Slim • Documentary • 2016 • 103 minutes
Amidst the popular uprising in Syria that begin in 2011, a group of former Lebanese detainees of the Assad regime decides to break their long-held silence about the horrific years they spent imprisoned in Tadmor (Palmyra), one of the Syrian government's most dreadful prisons.
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