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I Was a Stranger
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When a Syrian doctor is forced to flee Aleppo with her young daughter, one desperate choice sets off a chain of events that ripples across borders and pulls four strangers into the same storm. A smuggler trying to save his son. A soldier wrestling with his conscience. A poet searching for home. A Greek coast guard captain caught between duty and mercy. Their paths collide on one night in the Mediterranean, where survival is uncertain and humanity is revealed in its rawest form. I Was a Stranger is a tense, deeply human story about the lengths people will go to protect the ones they love.
Release Date
January 9, 2026
Director
Brandt Andersen
Producers
Brandt Andersen
Ossama Bawaedi
Ryan Busse
Charlie Endean
Writer
Brandt Andersen
Cinematographer
Jonathan Sela
Cast
Yasmine Al Massri
THE DOCTOR - Amira Homsi
Yahya Mahayni
THE SOLDIER - Mustafa
Omar Sy
THE SMUGGLER - Marwan
Ziad Bakri
THE POET - Fathi
Constantine Markoulakis
THE CAPTAIN - Stavros
Jason Beghe
Dr. Kroft
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