Wiam Simav Bedirxan is a Syrian Kurdish documentary filmmaker from Homs, who co-directed the 2014 film '' Silvered Water, Syria Self-Portrait'' with exiled filmmaker

Usama Muhammad Ossama Mohammed ( ar, أسامة محمد; born 21 March 1954) is a Syrian film director and screenwriter. His film, '' The Box of Life'', was screened in the Un Certain Regard section at the 2002 Cannes Film Festival. He is currently living i ...

. Bedirxan documented the

Siege of Homs The siege of Homs was a military confrontation between the Syrian military and the Syrian opposition in the city of Homs, a major rebel stronghold during the Syrian Civil War. The siege lasted three years from May 2011 to May 2014, and result ...

and sent its footage via the internet to Muhammad in

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in order to make ''Silvered Water, Syria Self-Portrait'', which had its world premiere at the 2014 Cannes Film Festival. Wiam Simav Bedirxan was born in

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, where her mother was a teacher for five years. The family returned to Syria in the 1980s and proceeded to settle in Homs in 1997. She attended University in Aleppo after which she became an elementary school teacher in Homs and began to film what happens in Homs. She fled Syria through

Istanbul ) , postal_code_type = Postal code , postal_code = 34000 to 34990 , area_code = +90 212 (European side) +90 216 (Asian side) , registration_plate = 34 , blank_name_sec2 = GeoTLD , blank_i ...

and from there to

to work on the film ''Silvered Water, Syria Self Portrait'' with Usama Muhammad and attend the film's world premiere in

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* Syrian film directors Syrian women film directors Syrian documentary filmmakers Kurdish women film directors People from Homs Syrian Kurdish women Kurdish film directors Living people Year of birth missing (living people) Women documentary filmmakers {{Asia-film-director-stub