Part of Shorts: We Belong Together at DOC NYC 2026

NYC PREMIERE A powerful chronicling of a daughter’s persistent love and the destructive ripple effect that comes after a family member is forcibly disappeared. In her quest to find the truth about what happened to her father, a filmmaker mirrors the story of many under former Syrian president Hafez Al-Assad’s genocidal regime. – Murtada Elfadl

Director: Waad Al-Kateab, Wafa Mustafa

Producer: Joanna Natasegara, Abigail Anketell-Jones

Executive Producer: Nevine Mabro, Sawsan Asfari, Rasha Mansouri

Cinematographer: Wafa Mustafa, Baraa Haddad, Waad Al-Kateab

Editor: Cinzia Baldessari

Composer: Tom McFarland

Language: English, Arabic

Country: United Kingdom

Year: 2026

The first screening will be followed by a Q&A with directors Waad Al-Kateab and Wafa Mustafa, and producer Joanna Natasegara.