SILVERED WATER SYRIA SELF-PORTRAIT

MA'A AL-FIDDA

By Ossama MOHAMMAD

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Documentary - Completed 2014

Visual poem of raw pain from exiled Syrian director Ossama Mohammed, a young Kurdish woman under siege in Homs called “Simav” (“Silvered Water”), and 1001 images from mobile phones and cameras across the country. It is also a scream of grief.

Festivals
& Awards

Cannes 2015
YIDFF 2015
Special Mention
    • Year of production
    • 2014
    • Genres
    • Documentary
    • Countries
    • FRANCE, SYRIA
    • Director(s)
    • Ossama MOHAMMAD
    • Synopsis
    • 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. 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.