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''Silvered Water, Syria Self-Portrait'' (, ) is a Syrian
documentary film A documentary film (often described simply as a documentary) is a nonfiction Film, motion picture intended to "document reality, primarily for instruction, education or maintaining a Recorded history, historical record". The American author and ...
about the Syrian Civil War, directed by Ossama Mohammed and Wiam Simav Bedirxan. The film premiered in the Special Screenings section of the 2014 Cannes Film Festival. Shot by a reported “1,001 Syrians,” according to the filmmakers, ''Silvered Water, Syria Self-Portrait'' impressionistically documents the destruction and atrocities of the civil war through a combination of eye-witness accounts shot on mobile phones and posted to the internet, and footage shot by Bedirxan during the siege of Homs. Bedirxan, an elementary school teacher in Homs, had contacted Mohammed online to ask him what he would film, if he was there. Mohammed, working in forced exile in Paris, is tormented by feelings of cowardice as he witnesses the horrors from afar, and the self-reflexive film also chronicles how he is haunted in this dreams by a Syrian boy once shot to death for snatching his camera on the street. The documentary includes some scenes of atrocities that Mohammed believes could only have been filmed by members of the Syrian government security forces. Mohammed and Bedirxan only met in person for the first time when she was able to escape Homs and attend the world premiere in France.


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Cannes Film Festival webpage
2014 films 2014 documentary films Syrian documentary films 2010s Arabic-language films Documentary films about the Syrian civil war Documentary films about citizen media Self-reflexive films Documentary films alleging war crimes Films directed by Ossama Mohammed Documentary films about the Internet Homs in the Syrian civil war {{Syria-stub