Isqat al Nizam: At the Regime Border

Mixing disturbing cell-phone footage of the Syrian army’s brutality with talking heads of refugees who’ve fled to Turkey, “Isqat al Nizam — at the Regime Border” is a powerful record of Syria’s continuing nightmare. Perhaps the first feature docu coming out of the Arab Spring to highlight the significance of cell-phone videos as an often-suicidal form of defiance, “Isqat” is an important addition to the growing number of films covering the uprisings in the Middle East.