The Return to Homs
Talal Derki
2014 - Syrie/Allemagne - Couleur - 87'
Photography : Orwa Nyrabia, Kahtan Hassoun, Ossama Al Homsi, Talal Derki
Editing : Anne Fabini
Production : Proaction Film, Ventana-Film GmbH
Distribution : Journeyman Pictures
(films@journeyman.tv, +44 20 83 98 46 16)
Talal Derki
2014 - Syrie/Allemagne - Couleur - 87'
Filmed over three years in Homs, Syria, the film accompanies two outstanding young men from the time they are dreaming of freedom and defending pacifism, to the time when choices are forced to be different. Basset, the nineteen-year-old national football team goalkeeper, turning into an iconic demonstration leader and singer, then, becoming a fighter. Ossama, a twenty-four-year-old renowned citizen-cameraman who is critical, pacifist, and ironic and whose views change when he is detained by the regime's security forces. It is the story of a city, which the world heard of a lot, but never really got close to. The Return to Homs is a modern times epic of youth in war, and of forced choices…
Photography : Orwa Nyrabia, Kahtan Hassoun, Ossama Al Homsi, Talal Derki
Editing : Anne Fabini
Production : Proaction Film, Ventana-Film GmbH
Distribution : Journeyman Pictures
(films@journeyman.tv, +44 20 83 98 46 16)