Coinciding with the second anniversary of the tragic earthquake that struck Turkey and Syria in 2023, claimed over 55,000 lives, the documentary Death Without Mercy directed by Syrian-born Academy Award® nominee Waad Al-Kateab (For Sama), debuts Thursday, February 6th, 2025, on Paramount+ with Showtime.
The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences has revealed the feature films eligible for consideration in the Animated Feature Film, Documentary Feature Film and International Feature Film categories for the 97th Academy Awards.
The 31st edition of Sheffield DocFest set for June 12-17, 2024 unveiled the full program of 109 films including the World premieres of Tilda Swinton’s feature directorial debut alongside filmmaker Bartek Dziadosz The Hexagonal Hive and a Mouse in a Maze and the latest film from Croatian director Goran Devic, Pavilion 6.
MTV Documentary Films will release Death Without Mercy (working title), a new film from the Academy Award®-nominated and Emmy®-winning filmmaker Waad Al-Kateab (For Sama, We Dare to Dream) that explores the devastating earthquake in Syria and Turkey that struck nearly one year ago. It was the worst earthquake in the region in more than a century, killing more than 50,000 people, and as the filmmaker shows, was both a natural disaster and a human-made disaster.