From 'The Long Season', a documentary from the 'single shot cinema' school of multi-award-winning director Leonard Retel Helmrich given its UK premiere this month at the Human Rights Watch film festival, BFI. Helmrich spent a year and half in the refugee camp, Majdal Anjar, in Lebanon's Bekaa Valley. All rights reserved.
We are both aid workers – from Athens, Greece and from Edinburgh, Scotland, the Athens of the North. We come from the opposite ends of Europe, but we are connected by the fact that we are closely linked to work with Syrian refugees.
It is unusual, and normally wrong, for aid workers to speak out about aid work and politics, but an endgame of sorts is approaching in Syria and it is clear that the road both to that point and beyond it will bring further intolerable suffering. In fact neither of us can stand witnessing the disgrace and depravity of what is happening in Syria for one moment longer.
