RETURN TO HOMS

IDFA Opening Film 2013 | 91min & 53min | 2K DCP 5.1 | Arabic | Syria, Germany

“An essential, ground-level look at the Syrian civil war,"

— Variety Magazine

“An unflinching, rousing piece of civil-war reportage, literally dispatched from the conflict's front lines."

— The Hollywood Reporter

“ The director's relentless, claustrophobic approach is surely an accurate reflection of the tragedy itself. There is no wider picture; the world has largely turned its back..”

— The Guardian

FESTIVALS & AWARDS

Opening Film - IDFA 2013
Sundance World Cinema Documentary Competition | Grand Jury Prize 2014
Full Frame Documentary Film Festival | Charles E. Guggenheim Emerging Artist Award
FIFDH | Grand Prix du Festival
Hot Docs Official Selection

FILM TEAM

Director: Talal Derki
Editor: Anne Fabini
Producers: Orwa Nyrabia and Diana El Jeiroudi for Proaction Film
Co-producer: Hans Robert Eisenhauer.

A co-production Syria and Germany

Support

Arte Germany
Sundance Documentary Film Program
Arab Fund for Arts and Culture
IMS
OSF
IDFA Bertha fund

SYNOPSIS

War changes people, including 19-year-old Basset Saroot, who went from star goalkeeper for the Syrian national soccer team to peaceful advocate for Arab Spring reforms to armed insurgent. Return to Homs, which focuses on Basset and his ragtag group’s transformation and struggles, is a heart-stopping, often wrenching study of the brutal war President Bashar al-Assad’s regime has waged against the Syrian people — a war fought mostly out of camera range that has produced epic heroism and tragedy. Winner of Sundance’s 2014 World Cinema Grand Jury Prize for Documentary, this is an unprecedented view inside a conflict that many accuse the world of overlooking. (by POV)

Available on Amazon Prime in certain territories.