Daring young Syrian filmmakers, toiling in anonymity in a Damascus basement, have crafted an award-winning film critiquing with bold humor the brutal repression occurring around them.
Because showing their faces could lead to detention or worse, the filmmakers instead use their hands. Their ingenious finger-puppet show mocks a quasi-sacred figure in Syrian society: turning President Bashar Al-Assad into a puppet named Beeshu (a diminutive for Bashar) in a spoof of classic Punch and Judy sketches. Check Out an article in New Zurich Newspaper.
