Ossama Mohammed
Resilience and poetic creativity against all odds. About the filmmaker, his unflinching, profound and poetic insights, and his central role in Syria’s film production scene.
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Silvered Water, Syria Self-Portrait
Ma'a al Fidda
Documentary
Ossama Mohammed / Wiam Simav Bedirxan
France/Syria 2014
92 min.
Ossama Mohammed:
In Syria, everyday, YouTubers film then die; others kill then film.
In Paris, driven by my inexhaustible love for Syria, I find that I can only film the sky and edit the footage posted on YouTube. From within the tension between my estrangement in France and the revolution, an encounter happened. A young Syrian-Kurdish woman from Homs began to chat with me, asking: ‘If your camera were here, in Homs, what would you be filming?”. Silvered Water is the story of that encounter.
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Resilience and poetic creativity against all odds. About the filmmaker, his unflinching, profound and poetic insights, and his central role in Syria’s film production scene.