If you cast your mind back to around this time last year, director Ashgar Farhadi was - at the time, anyway - unable to attend the Oscars due to Trump's travel ban.

So it goes again that another Oscar nominee this year has been prevented from attending this year's ceremony. The team behind Last Men In Aleppo, producer Kareem Abeed and director Feras Fayyad, are now both unable to attend this year's ceremony. Speaking to THR, Fayyad stated that "we are artists and we just want to share our stories and nothing more."

The film follows the volunteer medical relief unit in Syria, known as the White Helmets, and their exploits in the battered city of Aleppo. The founder of the White Helmets - and the producer of the documentary - Mahmoud Al-Hattar has said that, were the film to win, he would use his Oscars speech to denounce Russia, Syrian president Bashar al-Assad, and "everyone who represents the authorities and supplies weapons to suppress the people of Syria."

Here's the trailer for the documentary.

 

Via THR