Mudar is a Syrian actor, flew to Germany by a visa from Beirut, he researches refugee’s journeys who came walking on their feet, for his theater play and explores the real experiences that immigrants lived throughout their road. After his meeting with a Syrian filmmaker Ammar Obeid, Mudar wants to stand naked outside in the cold of his backyard.
Ammar Obeid was born in 1993, in Alswayda, Syria. SInce 2017, he is based in Berlin, where he currently works as an independent artist exploring visuals and sounds, through mediums such as short and documentary films, image making as well as experimental music. His work focuses on complex questions about migration, integration and the influence and effects of trauma on individuality, human behaviors and communication. Obeid holds a bachelor’s degree in Japanese literature from Damascus University. This has been one of the main elements that has influenced and improved his practice as an artist. Currently his focus is on the production of the film “I was here,” which tells the story of a Syrian migrant through Japanese instruments of storytelling using the mediums of Ghibli.
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