“There Was Life Before and There Will Be Life After This”: Simple as Water Lifts the Family Bonds of the Syrian Refugee Crisis

The words we have for the horror of fleeing home in the face of violence and war are insufficient: refugee, migrant, asylum-seeker. The vast experience of a million impossible decisions are folded into clinical terminology that describe the process, but fail to capture the humanity of those living through it. Enter Simple as Water, a new film from Academy Award–winning filmmaker Megan Mylan that has been shortlisted for this year’s Oscars, which trains an intimate eye on the lives of people who have been inexorably changed by the war in Syria. In five vignettes, Mylan follows different constellations of families—a… Read Full Article