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Silvered Water, Syria Self-Portrait

Ma'a al-Fidda (Eau argentèe, Syrie autoportrait)

2014

Wiam Bedirxan, Ossama Mohammed

Documentary, Self: Wiam Bedirxan

7.2

292

Documentary. War 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. 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. [+]

	Author	Review
United States	Jay Weissberg Variety	"A necessary, often unbearable documentary that bears witness to the horrors of the civil war."	POS
United States	Deborah Young The Hollywood Reporter	"A distanced approach makes it bearable to watch an unrelenting parade of atrocities, giving the measure of horror in Syria better than any documentary so far."	POS
United Kingdom	Fionnuala Halligan Screendaily	"'Silvered Water' is a visual poem of raw pain (...) It is also a scream of grief."	POS

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