Shukran is an Italian-French film by Pietro Malegori, starring Shahab Hosseini. The film premiered in Italy last summer and was covered by various Italian magazines and news outlets, such as The Hollywood Reporter Roma, Il Messaggero, Ciak Magazine and Cineuropa.

Shukran tells the story of a heart surgeon who has to urgently perform surgery on a child amid the Syrian civil war, before finding out that the child is the son of a terrorist responsible for the death of the surgeon’s brother. Shot both in Italy and France, the specific sites chosen provided necessary backdrop to authentically represent the war-torn regions of Syria. It is based on Giovanni Terzi’s novel Shukran – Ti salverò.

Alongside Hosseini are actors Abdelhafid Metalsi, Antonio Folletto, and Camélia Jordana. Hosseini speaks Arabic in this film as it features both English and Arabic as the main languages.

Watch Shukran‘s official trailer here.