🇸🇾The Syrian Twins who educate their Ghetto - Inspiring stories from Turkey 🇹🇷

Today, Turkey hosts more than 3.5 million Syrian refugees: the largest refugee population of any country. In our film, we aim to show the difficulties that Syrian children face when trying to imagine a better future for themselves and their loved ones. As well as highlighting how the tragedy and violence of war impacts the lives of these children, we also hope to capture the joy of the Syrian children as they formulate their dreams of a brighter tomorrow.

This documentary will show the lives of young Syrians living in Turkey, as they try to build a better life for themselves free from the violent trauma of daily warfare. We intend to show the inspiring dreams that sustain these children through the terror of the civil conflict that has consumed their country for more than seven years. The main objective of the project is to develop an aesthetic and engaging story for educational purposes, raising awareness about the integration challenges and the consequences of the refugee crisis.

Reyhan and Beyhan are two 14 year old Syrian girls who flee to Turkey with her family after their house in Aleppo was destroyed. They now live in Istanbul, where 1.5 million Syrian refugees are currently located. The twins are determined to seek a better future for themselves and their family, and they think education is the key. They often say they would like to become teachers one day and have their own school.

There is a school close to where they live. Although the area is densely populated by Syrian refugees, only 20 kids are attending school there. The parents’ main concern is to lift themselves out of poverty and scrape out a decent living, so they often arrange marriages for their daughters at young age and send their boys to work.

Reyhan’s and Beyhan's father used to work in a plastic factory in Istanbul for a short period of time. However, bombs from air strike in Syria hurt his legs really severely and he has trouble moving so he needed to quit the job. Currently, he has a very hard time trying to standing up. The family was in a good condition back in Aleppo and had a share in a shoe factory. Their financial situation now is very difficult. The twins like Istanbul and they would like to thrive here as independent women, so they are cultivating
their dream of becoming teachers one day.

🎬SYNOPSIS📽

The documentary will follow Reyhan and Beyhan as they are organizing small lessons with the younger kids of her neighbourhood, teaching them Math and English in her small house. We will witness to the conflict she is living with her mother and father. We intercut between small scenes in the school where she is learning Turkish and Turkish history and small scenes in the Syrian neighbourhood around the school, where she is teaching other kids what she has learnt that day.

We cut to a bright Istanbul morning, the Syrian neighbourhood is waking up, cats are hunting in the streets as vendors open their shops. Syrians have made themselves at home here, with pictures attached to walls, typical cafes etc. Reyhan is walking towards the entrance of the school in a sunny day.

We follow her from behind, going upstairs to the second floor, holding a large red binder. She opens the door of one classroom and steps in. As we are entering the room with her, the class full of Turkish kids is revealed. They are sitting in silence and wait for the lesson to begin. Reyhan is greeting everybody as she is spreading a few papers on the desk

She picks a piece of chalk and writes on the blackboard: Syria What follows is a lesson about the history and culture of Syria, as it unfolds naturally, with questions coming from the Turkish kids, a bit of spelling exercises of Arabic keywords etc. Some of the kids will be asking questions to know their classmate and her country more in depth.

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