FIRST TO FALL

Directed by: Rachel Beth Anderson

Edited by: Luis Álvarez y Álvarez

FIRST TO FALL is a feature documentary that follows the journey of two young expatriate Libyan men as they return home to join a bloody, chaotic revolution.

Tarek Muhammed and Hamid Fije have never held a loaded gun, let alone fired at an enemy. Like many in their generation, they grew up playing Call of Duty, never imagining they’d become real-life snipers in a war for their homeland. Their transformation—from idealistic twenty-something civilians to battle-hardened soldiers—is swift, brutal, and captured in raw, unfiltered detail.

This is a story of rebellion and sacrifice, of innocence lost and identities reshaped by war.