SILVERED WATER
SYRIA SELF-PORTRAIT
Festival du Cannes 2014 | 92min | 2K & 5.1 | Arabic & Kurdish | France & Syria
“a poetic depiction of Syrian suffering"
— Modern Times Review
“mille et une images de Syrie, et un miracle."
— Le Monde
“ a visual poem of raw pain from exiled Syrian director Ossama Mohammed.”
— Screen Daily
FESTIVALS & AWARDS
Festival de Cannes 2014 – Official Selection
The Grierson Award at the London Film Festival 2014
Filmmaker Film Festival 2014 – Special Mention
Istanbul International Independant Film Festival 2015 – Love & Change Award
Thessaloniki FF 2015 – Amnesty International Award
Yamagata 2015 – Excellence Award
Audience Award at the Berlin ALFILM Festival 2015
Official Selection of TIFF, NYFF, Busan, Cairo IFF, Locarno… among others.
FILM TEAM
Directors: Ossama Mohammed & Wiam Simav Bedirxan
Editing : Ossama Mohammed & Maysoun Assaad.
Sound: Raphael Girardot
Producers:
Orwa Nyrabia and Diana El Jeiroudi for Proaction Film
Serge Lalou and Camille Laemle for Les Films d’Ici.
A coproduction France and Syria
Support
Arte France
CNC
Sundance Documentary Film Program
Arab Fund for Arts and Culture
Procirep.
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 on YouTube.
From within the tension between my estrangement in France and the revolution, an encounter happened. A young Kurdish 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.
SALES & FESTIVALS CONTACTS
please reach out to :
International Sales Agent: The Party Sales
Distributors
Potemkine Films (France)
Paco Poch Cinema (Spain)
Wanted (Italy)
Leopardo Filmes (Portugal)
Tereza & Sunny (Japan)