Eau argentée, Syrie autoportrait (2014)
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Directors
Ossama Mohammed, Wiam Simav Bedirxan
Amateur online footage and images recorded during the siege of Homs form a personal portrait of the Syrian civil war.
The story
The film approaches the Syrian civil war through dozens of amateur YouTube videos, filmed on mobile phones and posted online. These images are assembled alongside footage shot by Wiam Bedirxan during the siege of Homs from 2011 to 2014. Through the editing collaboration between Bedirxan and Ossama Mohammed, who was in exile in Paris, the film presents their personal impressions of the conflict and its unfolding destruction and atrocities.
Full plot (contains spoilers)
The film addresses the Syrian civil war through dozens of compiled amateur YouTube videos. It recounts the destruction and atrocities committed during the war, filmed on mobile phones and posted on the Internet, alongside footage shot by Wiam Bedirxan during the siege of Homs (2011–2014). The editing was done in collaboration with Ossama Mohammed, who was in exile in Paris, and the two directors express their personal impressions.
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