''The War Show'' is a 2016 Syrian-Danish-German

documentary film A documentary film or documentary is a non-fictional film, motion-picture intended to "document reality, primarily for the purposes of instruction, education or maintaining a Recorded history, historical record". Bill Nichols (film critic), Bil ...

co-written and directed by and Obaidah Zytoon. It was awarded best film in the Venice Days section at the 73rd edition of the

Venice Film Festival The Venice Film Festival or Venice International Film Festival ( it, Mostra Internazionale d'Arte Cinematografica della Biennale di Venezia, "International Exhibition of Cinematographic Art of the Venice Biennale") is an annual film festival he ...

. The film recounts the

Arab Spring The Arab Spring ( ar, الربيع العربي) was a series of Nonviolent resistance, anti-government protests, Rebellion, uprisings and Insurgency, armed rebellions that spread across much of the Arab world in the early 2010s. It began in T ...

days in Syria and the subsequent civil war though the eyes of a Syrian former radio DJ.

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* 2016 documentary films Best Documentary Bodil Award winners Danish documentary films Documentary films about the Syrian civil war German documentary films Syrian documentary films 2010s German films Films scored by Colin Stetson {{hist-documentary-film-stub