Damascus Dreams follows a filmmaker’s journey to her inaccessible homeland as she composes a Syria that stands somewhere between reality and myth, dream and nightmare, past and present.
Damascus Dreams follows a filmmaker’s journey to her inaccessible homeland as she composes a Syria that stands somewhere between reality and myth, dream and nightmare, past and present.
Born to a Syrian father and a Belgium mother, Émilie Serri is a Montreal-based filmmaker and installation artist. Distributed by LightCone in Paris, her work has traveled in festivals internationally and in artist centers and galleries throughout Canada. In 2018, she won the Bronfman award in contemporary art. Her first feature film, "Damascus Dreams," premiered at IFFR in the Bright Future category in 2021 and won the international critics’ award (FIPRESCI) at FNC in Montreal.
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