Official Selection 2026 · Day 1 · Sat 05.12 · United Kingdom · Documentary
Maybe Tomorrow
40 min · 2026 · United Kingdom, Syria, Germany · Arabic, English
- Runtime
- 40 min
- Year
- 2026
- Country
- United Kingdom, Syria, Germany
- Language
- Arabic, English
- Type / Genre
- Documentary, Short
- Director
- Waad Al-Kateab, Wafa Mustafa
- Producer
- Joanna Natasegara, Abigail Anketell-Jones, Waad Al-Kateab
- Credits
- Executive producers: Nevine Mabro, Sawsan Asfari, Rasha Mansouri · Cinematography: Wafa Mustafa, Baraa Haddad, Waad Al-Kateab · Editing: Cinzia Baldessari · Channel 4 presents an East Aleppo and Violet Films production
Synopsis
From Oscar-nominated filmmaker Waad Al-Kateab and co-director Wafa Mustafa comes the story of Wafa's search for her father, forcibly disappeared by the Assad regime in 2013. In a country where some 177,000 people remain missing, one woman's grief, hope and exile become a collective story of memory, resistance and a love that refuses to fade. As Wafa says: “We only exist if we are remembered.”
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Directors
Waad Al-Kateab
Waad Al-Kateab is a Syrian activist and Oscar®-nominated filmmaker. She became a citizen journalist in 2011, and her Channel 4 News series “Inside Aleppo” won an International Emmy. Her first feature, FOR SAMA, won the Prix L’Œil d’or at Cannes and the BAFTA for Best Documentary, and was nominated for an Academy Award®. She has since made WE DARE TO DREAM and DEATH WITHOUT MERCY. She and her family settled in the UK as refugees in 2018, where they run the advocacy campaign Action For Sama.
Wafa Mustafa
Wafa Mustafa is a journalist, activist and storyteller who studied Humanities, Arts and Social Thought at Bard College Berlin. After her father was forcibly disappeared by the Assad regime in 2013, she fled Syria and has since worked to ensure that the voices of Syria’s disappeared are not forgotten. She is communications and advocacy manager at The Syria Campaign and has been a non-resident fellow at TIMEP and Refugees International. As co-director she brings her lived experience and journalistic work to a story she also stands in front of the camera for.