Ossama Mohammed and Wiam Berdirxan: Silvered Water
A mail came in today with the headline: Good News in Bad Times! It came from Orwa Nyrabia from Syrian Proaction Film, together with French Films d’Ici the producer of ”Silvered Water. Syria, An Auto-Portrait”.
Orwa Nyrabia: It is with much pleasure that we share with you, wonderful friends and partners, the news we received while Homs is under merciless shelling. Our new release is premiering in May, and taking the story another step further…
The film in question has been selected for the Festival de Cannes, Official Selection, Special Screenings.
Directed by Ossama Mohammed (photo) and Wiam Berdirxan, the description of the film goes like this, according to the mail received:
“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 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.”
Indeed a Special Screening at the upcoming Cannes Festival!
90min, documentary
Music by Noma Omran
Editing by Maisoun Asaad
In association with Arte France – La Lucarne
With the Support of CNC, AFAC and Sundance Documentary Fund, Procirep.
