Mezar Matar

Co-directed with Amer Matar, “Plastic Flowers” recounts the long search for a journalist who was abducted and imprisoned by ISIS in August 2013. As his family members struggle to learn of his fate, they relive the bitter chronicles of forced disappearance and captivity. During the search, they utilize different types of cameras to film their experiences in Raqqa and the ISIS prisons there, their escape to Turkey and then Germany, and then the resumption of their search in Raqqa after it was freed from ISIS control.