Falling in Love With a Screen Name

Documentary of the Week | Jul 24, 2015

From her home in Montreal, Sandra Bagaria fell in cyber-love with a blogger named Amina who called herself “Gay Girl in Damascus.” They carried on a torrid correspondence for months, until the relationship took a strange turn that made headlines as the Syrian civil war escalated in 2011. Director Sophia Deraspe follows Sandra on an international quest to solve the mystery of Amina.

— Thom Powers and Raphaela Neihausen 

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