I Was a Stranger

Having lost most of her family in a shelling, Aleppo hospital doctor Amira (Yasmine Al Massri) chose to leave civil war-torn Syria with her daughter Rasha (Massa Daoud). The legs of their bid for safety-as told through the multiple points of view of strangers, including a Syrian soldier (Yahya Mahayni), a Turkish human smuggler (Omar Sy), a Turkish refugee (Ziad Bakri) crossing the Aegean, and a Greek coast guard officer (Constantine Markoulakis)-are limned in this affecting drama. AKA: "The Strangers' Case." 103 min. Widescreen; Soundtrack: English.