{"id":28578,"date":"2021-10-28T15:09:32","date_gmt":"2021-10-28T19:09:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mortystv.com\/blog\/?p=28578"},"modified":"2021-10-28T15:09:32","modified_gmt":"2021-10-28T19:09:32","slug":"hbos-simple-as-water-from-academy-award-winner-megan-mylan-debuts-november-16","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mortystv.com\/blog\/2021\/10\/28\/hbos-simple-as-water-from-academy-award-winner-megan-mylan-debuts-november-16\/","title":{"rendered":"HBO&#8217;s &#8220;Simple as Water,&#8221; From Academy Award Winner Megan Mylan, Debuts November 16"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-28579\" src=\"https:\/\/mortystv.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/simple-as-water-poster.webp\" alt=\"\" width=\"555\" height=\"822\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mortystv.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/simple-as-water-poster.webp 555w, https:\/\/mortystv.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/simple-as-water-poster-203x300.webp 203w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 555px) 100vw, 555px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>HBO Documentary Films&#8217; SIMPLE AS WATER, from Academy Award\u00ae winning filmmaker Megan Mylan (&#8220;<em>Lost Boys of Sudan<\/em>,&#8221; &#8220;<em>Smile Pinki<\/em>&#8220;), debuts Tuesday, November 16 @ 9PM ET\/PT. The critically acclaimed film celebrated its world premiere on closing night of the 2021 Tribeca Film Festival. The documentary will have a limited theatrical run before debuting on HBO and will be available to stream on HBO Max.<\/p>\n<p>Epic in scope but intimate and elegant in feel, SIMPLE AS WATER is a meditation on the elemental bonds between parent and child. A masterful look at the impact of war, separation, and displacement, the film takes audiences into Syrian families&#8217; quests for normalcy and through the whirlwind of obstacles &#8211; to building life anew. Filmed over the course of five years in five countries including Turkey, Greece, Germany, Syria, and the US, Mylan&#8217;s sensitive camera reifies the universal importance of family.<\/p><div id=\"morty-1458910461\" class=\"morty-content\"><script async src=\"\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-4937602850188786\" crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script><ins class=\"adsbygoogle\" style=\"display:block; text-align:center;\" data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-4937602850188786\" \ndata-ad-slot=\"5227734695\" \ndata-ad-layout=\"in-article\"\ndata-ad-format=\"fluid\" data-full-width-responsive=\"true\"><\/ins>\n<script> \n(adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({}); \n<\/script>\n<\/div>\n<p>Director Megan Mylan achieves remarkable intimacy and complexity in her films. SIMPLE AS WATER is the result of meaningful collaboration with carefully selected crews of small teams from all over the world, many Syrian refugees themselves. Its stunning images were created with cinematographers that hail from three continents, are of three different racial and cultural backgrounds, and whose lives span three different decades: Lars Skree (&#8220;<em>The Act of Killing<\/em>,&#8221; &#8220;<em>The Look of Silence<\/em>&#8220;), veteran DP Michael Chin (&#8220;<em>Eyes on the Prize<\/em>&#8220;), and &#8220;<em>Rafia Salameh<\/em>&#8221; a young woman who must remain anonymous for her safety and is credited with a pseudonym, working inside Syria.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Film subjects:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Yasmin is a young mother with four small children living in a tent in the port of Athens, Greece. She wades through Kafkaesque bureaucracies in her efforts to reunite with the children&#8217;s father, who is across closed borders in Germany. She does her best to create safe and loving routines that offer the children a glimmer of their life before the war and makes a point to talk about a beautiful future to come.<\/p>\n<p>On the Syrian border with Turkey, Samra, a young widow is barely able to support her five young sons and is grappling with the decision to leave them at an orphanage so they might get an education and have a better life.<\/p><div id=\"morty-148906783\" class=\"morty-content_2\" style=\"margin-left: auto;margin-right: auto;text-align: center;\"><script async src=\"\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-4937602850188786\" crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script><ins class=\"adsbygoogle\" style=\"display:block; text-align:center;\" data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-4937602850188786\" \ndata-ad-slot=\"5227734695\" \ndata-ad-layout=\"in-article\"\ndata-ad-format=\"fluid\" data-full-width-responsive=\"true\"><\/ins>\n<script> \n(adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({}); \n<\/script>\n<\/div>\n<p>22-year-old Omar has taken on the role of parent of his younger brother in Pennsylvania. 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