Silvered Water, Syria Self-Portrait (Ma'a al-Fidda)

synopsis

In Syria, everyday, civilians film and are killed while others kill and then film. Safe in Paris, but driven by his inexhaustible love for Syria, Ossama Mohammed finds that he can only film the sky and edit footage posted on YouTube. A chance encounter seems to offer a kind of resolution to the tension between Ossama's estrangement from his country and the revolution that is raging without him. A young Kurdish woman from Homs sends him an email, asking: 'If your camera were here, in Homs, what would you be filming?". This is the story of that encounter.