Silvered Water, Syria Self-Portrait

Screenwriter: Ousama Mohammed & Wiam Simav Bedirxan

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Editor: Dani Abouloh and Maisoun Asaad

Music: No'ma Omrane (Music)

Synopsis: In Syria, every day, 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. From within the tension between my estrangement in France and the revolution, an encounter happened. A young 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.

Ossama Mohammed
Ossama Mohammed is a Syrian film director and screenwriter. His film, The Box of Life, was screened in the Un Certain Regard section at the 2002 Cannes Film Festival. He is currently living in exile in Paris, where he collaborated on Silvered Water, Syria Self-Portrait

Ossama Mohammed

Ossama Mohammed is a Syrian film director and screenwriter. His film, The Box of Life, was screened in the Un Certain Regard section at the 2002 Cannes Film Festival. He is currently living in exile in Paris, where he collaborated on Silvered Water, Syria Self-Portrait

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