The project will be developed across multiple formats – a feature film and documentary, series and podcast.
The Film Committee at Media City Qatar has acquired the life rights to the story of “Caesar,” the Syrian military officer who risked his life to expose torture and human-rights violations inside Syrian prisons under President Bashar Al Assad. The story will be adapted across several formats, including a feature film, documentary, series and podcast, marking one of the committee’s most significant and internationally relevant projects to date.
To bring the project to life, the Film Committee will collaborate with globally recognised production company Department M (The Christophers) and Doha-based Katara Studios, with studio NEON—known for titles such as Anora, Parasite, Triangle of Sadness and Anatomy of a Fall—handling distribution. Kuwait’s Sard Media Group will support the project through documentation and development.
Caesar, who revealed his identity as First Lieutenant Farid al-Madhan in February 2025, previously served as a forensic officer and head of the judicial department for the military police in Damascus. After defecting, he spent three years covertly smuggling evidence of abuses by hiding memory cards in his clothing and even in loaves of bread. His unprecedented collection of photographs and documents became the largest body of evidence implicating the Assad regime in war crimes.
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