Last Men in Aleppo

Last Men in Aleppo (2017) is a documentary you can watch online on iFILM, co-directed by Feras Fayyad and Steen Johannessen. The film embeds with three founders of the White Helmets — Khaled, Subhi and Mahmoud — volunteers who became first responders in a city being bombed to rubble.

Every airstrike brings the same calculation: run toward the smoke or get out while a route still exists. Khaled's family left long ago; he stays. The camera holds through both the chaos and the strange quiet between strikes — a goldfish, a child's laugh, an argument about tomorrow. Fayyad took home the Grand Jury Prize at Sundance 2017, and the film later competed for the Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature. Stream Last Men in Aleppo online on iFILM.