''Clouds Over Sidra'' is a 2015
virtual reality film about the
Syrian refugee crisis. The movie was created by Gabo Arora and
Chris Milk in partnership with the
United Nations and
Samsung. The film features a twelve year old in the
Za'atari camp in
Jordan, home to 84,000 Syrian refugees. It follows her throughout the day from her family's tent, to school, to a bakery, to a computer lab and the camp football pitch. It is the first film shot in virtual reality for the United Nations.
The film was directed by Gabo Arora and Barry Pousman and co-Produced by Samantha Storr, Socrates Kakoulides, Christopher Fabian and Katherine Keating.
It was first shown at the
World Economic Forum in
Davos, Switzerland in January 2015.
References
2015 short films
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