Feras Fayyad: The real-life superheroes helping Syrian refugees | TED Fellows

Translator: Klavdija Černilogar Dwyer Reviewer: Nika Kotnik

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Družba pozna vrsto zgodb o tem,

kdo so begunci in kako izgledajo.

[SHAPE YOUR FUTURE]

Society has a set of stories it tells itself

A naj vam povem drugačno zgodbo.

about who refugees are and what they look like.

Svojo zgodbo.

Sem filmar in begunec

But let me tell you a different story.

iz majhne vasi na severu Sirije.

My story.

Ko sem odraščal, v naši vasi nismo vedno imeli elektrike.

I'm a filmmaker and a refugee

from a small village in northern Syria.

Večino noči smo preživeli ob plinskih svetilkah

ter si pripovedovali zgodbe o sirskih mitoloških super-bitjih,

In our village, growing up, there was no stable electricity supply.

ki so ščitila ranljive ljudi.

We spend most of our nights around gas lanterns

Kot fant sem oboževal zgodbe o superjunakih.

and told stories about Syrian mythological superbeings

A kasneje so te zgodbe začele opisovati junake,

that protected the vulnerable.

I was a boy who loved the stories of superheroes.

ki so mojo družino zaznamovali pod Asadovo diktaturo.

But later on, these stories shifted to tales of heroes

Enega mojih stricev so mučili in umorili.

that my family has to face under the Assad dictatorship.

Moj oče je moral sežgati svoje knjige, še preden so bile izdane,

One of my uncles was killed under torture.

da bi nas zaščitil pred režimom.

My father had to burn his books before they were even published

S knjigami je sežgal tudi svoje sanje.

Teh zgodb ne smemo pozabiti,

in order to protect us from the regime.

so vztrajali moji starši.

He burned his dreams along with his books.

Zgodbe niso bile več v zabavo.

These stories must not be forgotten,

Postale so oblika upora.

my parents insisted.

Študiral sem film, še posebej dokumentarce.

The stories stopped being a pastime.

Dokumentarci so postali moja vrsta upora.

It became a form of resistance.

I studied filmmaking and focused on documentaries.

Dokumentiral sem zgodbe Sircev, ki so nasprotovali Asadovemu režimu

Documentary filmmaking, you see, became my way of resistance.

leta 2011, ob začetku revolucije.

I documented stories of Syrians who opposed the Assad regime,

Aretirali so me, mučili

in izvajali spolno nasilje nad menoj.

in 2011, when the revolution started.

Ko so me izpustili, sem zapustil Sirijo.

I was arrested, tortured

Bil sem pretresen

in sem hotel končati svoje življenje.

and sexually assaulted.

Žena mi je stala ob strani in mi pomagala preživeti.

When I was released, I left Syria.

I was traumatized

and tried to end my life.

A zaradi tega sem nehal snemati filme.

My wife stood by me and helped me hang onto life.

Kljub aretaciji in mučenju

sem tvegal, da bi spet videl družino.

But as a result, I stopped making films.

Despite my arrest and torture,

Leto kasneje, ko je Asadov režim izgubil nadzor nad severom Sirije,

I took many risks in order to see my family.

sem lahko obiskal domači kraj.

So a year later, when the Assad regime lost control of the north of Syria,

Srečal sem mnogo navdihujočih Sircev,

superjunakov vsakdana, ki so ostali doma in reševali življenja.

I was able to visit my hometown.

There, I met many inspiring Syrians,

Njihova iskrenost me je prevzela.

real life superheroes who stayed behind to save lives.

Brez načrta sem vzel kamero in začel snemati.

I was captivated by how genuine they were.

Navdihnilo me je.

Ti superjunaki vsakdana so rešili filmarja v meni.

Without planning, I took out my camera and started filming,

I felt inspired.

Khalid je eden od junakov mojega prvega filma,

These real-life superheroes saved the filmmaker in me.

“Zadnji možje v Alepu”.

Khalid je preprost mož, ki je sanjal o tem, da postane gasilec,

Khalid was one of the heroes in my first feature film,

a tem sanjam ni mogel slediti.

Zato je delal kot slikopleskar.

"Last Men in Aleppo."

Khaled was a simple man who dreamed to be a firefighter,

Ko je vojna uničila njegovo mesto, je našel svoje poslanstvo.

but he couldn't follow his dream.

Pridružil se je Belim čeladam,

So he worked as a house painter.

skupini sirskih prostovoljcev, ki so vzpostavili civilno zaščito,

When the war destroyed his city, he found his calling.

da bi civiliste reševali iz bombardiranih domov.

He joined the White Helmets,

a group of Syrian volunteers who formed a civil defense organization

Khalid je rešil na stotine življenj.

In pri tem delu je umrl kot junak.

to rescue civilians from their bombed homes.

Khalid saved hundreds of lives.

Druga junakinja je dr. Amani Ballour,

While doing that, he died as a hero.

katere zgodbo sem povedal v svojem drugem filmu, “Jama”.

The second hero is Dr. Amani Ballour,

Gre za zgodbo o neverjetni ženski,

ki je ustanovila skrivno bolnišnico v vzhodni Guti.

whose story I told in my second film, “The Cave.”

Oskrbovala je ranjene otroke, žrtve grozodejstev,

It's a story of an extraordinary woman

who founded an underground hospital in eastern Ghouta.

medtem ko so okoli njih padale bombe.

She treated injured children, victims of atrocities,

Kot ženska znanstvenica

je kljubovala seksizmu in patriarhiji,

while bombs fell around them.

da bi rešila civiliste, žrtve dveh napadov s kemičnim orožjem.

As a female scientist,

she defied sexism and patriarchy

In potem sta tu še superjunaka, ki sta mi rešila življenje.

to save civilians who suffered two attacks with chemical weapons.

Khalil Ma’touq in Anwar al-Bunni.

And then there are the two superheroes who saved my own life.

Sta odvetnika, ki sta prevzela moj primer

in me rešila iz najbolj zloglasnih mučilnih prostorov v Damasku.

Khalil Ma'touq and Anwar al-Bunni.

They are the lawyers who took up my case

Anwar je zdaj v Nemčiji; tam se bori za pravice sirskih beguncev,

and got me out of the most notorious torture facilities in Damascus.

Khalila pa so aretirali leta 2012 zaradi njegovega dela.

While Anwar now is in Germany, fighting for justice for Syrian refugees,

Nič ne vemo o njem,

saj sirski režim zanika, da so ga sploh aretirali.

Khalil was arrested in 2012 because of his work.

We don't know anything about him

A njegovo delo ni bilo zaman.

because the Syrian regime continues to deny his arrest,

Zaradi njega sem se lahko v Nemčiji soočil s svojim mučiteljem.

Junija 2020 sem pričal

but his work is not in vain.

It's for Khalil I faced my torturer in Germany.

na prvem sojenju zaradi mučenja s strani sirskega režima,

In June 2020 I gave my testimony

pred nemškim sodiščem v Koblenzu.

Zaradi Amani in Khalida

at the first trial on Syrian state of torture

sem danes še filmar.

before a German court in Koblenz.

Navdihnila sta me, da ustvarjam filmsko vesolje superjunakov,

It is for Amani and Khalid

ki se borijo za konec nepravičnosti.

I'm still the filmmaker today.

They inspired me to create a new cinematic universe of superheroes,

Ta pot v novo filmsko vesolje ni lahka.

based on their quest to end injustice.

Gre za brutalne napore

proti rasizmu in diskriminaciji v filmski industriji,

Creating this cinematic universe has not been an easy journey.

ki jo vodijo ljudje, ki menijo, da vedo, kaj občinstvo,

It's been a brutal struggle

against racism and discrimination in the film industry,

kaj vi pričakujete od filma o Sircih,

an industry dominated by people who think they know how the audience,

kako naj izgledajo superjunaki ali begunci.

A begunci izgledajo tako kot jaz.

how you want a film about Syrians to be,

Ti begunci so superjunaki,

how you want superheroes or refugees to look.

ki so se uprli statusu quo in stereotipom.

But refugees look just like me.

These refugees were superheroes

Zato ne bom odnehal. To jim dolgujem.

who defied the status quo and stereotype.

To dolgujem svoji hčerki, mlademu begunskemu otroku.

So I will not stop. I owe it to them.

Povedati moram zgodbe o superjunakih,

I owe it to my daughter, the young refugee child.

ki izgledajo tako kot ona.

Zaradi nje se bom še naprej upiral.

To tell the stories of superheros

who look just like her.

Hvala.

For her, I will continue to resist.

Thank you.