A Syrian refugee whose story of escape from the war-torn Middle East country to sanctuary in Germany is nominated for an Oscar.
Hala Kamil, the star of Watani: My Homeland, is expected to be at the Academy Awards in Los Angeles on Sunday, where she will walk the red carpet with the likes of Meryl Streep and Nicole Kidman.
Earlier this month there was doubt over whether she would be able to attend the ceremony, with fears she may fall victim of Donald Trump's travel ban.
But after a judge blocked the president's moratorium she was able to travel to the US, and now Kamil hopes to bring her message of peace to audiences around the globe.
Hollywood has even rallied to find her a gown to wear at the awards.
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Others, however, have fallen victim of American immigration authorities.
Khaled Khateeb, a 21-year-old Syrian cinematographer who worked on the Oscar-nominated documentary The White Helmets, was barred from travelling to Los Angeles after officials found "derogatory information" on him.
Amid increasing indignation at President Trump's policies, the directors of all five films in the Best Foreign Language Film category issued an extraordinary broadside in a joint statement condemning the "climate of fanaticism and nationalism" in the US.
They have decided to dedicate their category's award - irrespective of who wins - to "the people, artists, journalists and activists who are working to foster unity and understanding, and who uphold freedom of expression and human dignity".
Watani: My Homeland, nominated in the short documentary category, was produced by ITN Productions and German film-maker Marcel Mettelsiefen.
Filmed between 2013 and 2016, it tells the story of Kamil, her husband Abu Ali and their four children as they lived on the front line of war-torn Aleppo.
After Abu Ali was captured by so-called Islamic State - he is thought to have been killed - the family were forced to flee Syria to begin a new life in Germany.
