Homs - a broken dream

Movie
German title	Homs - a broken dream
Original title	The Return to Homs
Country of production	Syria , Germany
Publishing year	2013
length	88 minutes
Rod
Director	Talal Derki
script	Talal Derki
production	Orwa Nyrabia
music	Katarina Holmberg
camera	Orwa Nyrabia ; Kahtan Hassoun ; Ossama Homsi; Talal Derki
cut	Anne Fabini
occupation
	Abdul Baset Al-Sarout and others

Award at the 2014 Sundance Film Festival

Homs - A Destroyed Dream is a Syrian-German documentary by the documentary filmmaker and author Talal Derki . It is a coproduction of the Syrian producers Orwa Nyrabia and Diana El Jeiroudi of the company "Proaction Film" and the Berlin producer "Ventana-Film" by Hans Robert Eisenhauer with the television stations Südwestrundfunk (SWR), ARTE and the Swedish Sveriges Television (SVT). Other participating television stations are the Swiss television station RTS, the Japanese station NHK and the Canadian station "Radio Canada". The editor is Gudrun Hanke-El Ghomri (SWR), Claudia Bucher (ARTE), Axel Arnö (SVT), Tomoko Okutsu (NHK), Gaspard Lamuniere (TSR) and Jean Pelletier (CBC - Radio Canada).

The film premiered on November 20, 2013 at the 26th International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam (IDFA) in the Netherlands . The TV premiere in Germany took place on March 4, 2014 on Arte .

The producer Orwa Nyrabia was detained for three weeks by Syrian security forces because of this film. Today he lives with his wife in Berlin.

content

The documentary is about the civil war in Syria . From August 2011 to August 2013, director Talal Derki accompanies two friends in the city of Homs who are organizing demonstrations against the dictatorial regime of President Bashar al-Assad in the documentary. After the Syrian security forces take military action against the demonstrators, the initially pacifist friends decide to arm themselves and become resistance fighters against the Assad regime. The documentary shows the career of the main character Abdul Baset Al-Sarout , from the goalkeeper of a youth soccer team to the commander of a small group of fighters on the side of the Free Syrian Army in the camera very close to the events of the cruel civil war in a destroyed city will be shown.

Awards

Sundance Film Festival 2014 : First prize in the “World Cinema Grand Jury Prize: Documentary” category.

Reviews

FAZ of March 4, 2014
sueddeutsche.de March 4, 2014

Web links

Footnotes

↑ taz.de
↑ ^a ^b End of the festival
↑ Page 13. Published on FAZ.net on the same day: Only God and a handful of guns

[1] taz.de

[suedd-2] End of the festival

[3] Page 13. Published on FAZ.net on the same day: Only God and a handful of guns