Mobile cinema brings movies to children in Syria

SANJAQ SAADUN, Syria - In a schoolyard of rural northeastern Syria, boys and girls break out into giggles watching Charlie Chaplin's pranks, a rare treat thanks to a mobile cinema roving through the countryside.

In Kurdish-held areas of the northeast, filmmaker Shero Hinde is screening films in remote villages using just a laptop, projector and a canvas screen.

"We've already shown films in towns, but we wanted children in the villages to enjoy them too," said the bespectacled 39-year-old with thick graying curly hair.