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All Roads Lead To More
To cope with the daily trauma of a lost home, Syrian filmmaker Afraa Batous is filming her friends as they plan to embark on their first road trip ever. Rahaf, Sara, Rawa and Afraa know the feeling of losing ground underneath one’s feet well. It’s been eight years since their homes in Syria have been blown into pieces. To fight back against how life has unfolded for them, filmmaker Afraa decides to shoot a film, one about her friends being happy, their dreams and fears. She invites them to join her for a trip through Europe, determined to document their experiences.
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Director
Afraa BatousDate
2023Producer
Lorena JunghansCast
Rahaf, Rawa, Sara & Shams
But I must explain to you how all this mistaken idea of denouncing pleasure and praising pain was born and I will give you a complete account of the system, and expound the actual teachings of the great explorer of the truth, the master-builder of human happiness. No one rejects, dislikes, or avoids pleasure itself, because it is pleasure, but because those who do not know how to pursue pleasure rationally encounter consequences that are extremely painful. Nor again is there anyone who loves or pursues or desires to obtain pain of itself, because it is pain, but because occasionally circumstances occur in which toil and pain can procure him some great pleasure. To take a trivial example, which of us ever undertakes laborious physical exercise, except to obtain some advantage from it? But who has any right to find fault with a man who chooses to enjoy a pleasure that has no annoying consequences, or one who avoids a pain that produces no resultant pleasure