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LES FILMS D’ICI & PROACTION FILM PRESENT IN ASSOCIATION WITH ARTE FRANCE - LA LUCARNE SILVERED WATER SYRIA SELF-PORTRAIT A FILM BY OSSAMA MOHAMMED & WIAM SIMAV BEDIRXAN INDIECAN ENTERTAINMENT INC. SILVERED WATER SYRIA SELF-PORTRAIT A FILM BY OSSAMA MOHAMMED & WIAM SIMAV BEDIRXAN SYNOPSIS 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 on YouTube. 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. LES FILMS D’ICI - PROACTION FILM - ARTE FRANCE, LA LUCARNE / FRANCE - SYRIA / 96’ / HD / ARABIC / 2014 / DOCUMENTARY CREDITS DIRECTORS & WRITERS OSSAMA MOHAMMED AND WIAM SIMAV BEDIRXAN ORIGINAL MUSIC AND VOCAL NOMA OMRAN PHOTO WIAM SIMAV BEDIRXAN AND THOUSAND SYRIANS AND OSSAMA MOHAMMED EDITING MAÏSOUN ASAAD ADDITIONAL EDITING DANI ABO LOUH AND LÉA MASSON SOUND EDITING RAPHAËL GIRARDOT MIXING JEAN-MARC SCHICK EXECUTIVE PRODUCER LES FILMS D’ICI (SERGE LALOU, CAMILLE LAEMLÉ) EXECUTIVE PRODUCER PROACTION FILM (ORWA NYRABIA, DIANA EL JEIROUDI) IN ASSOCIATION WITH ARTE FRANCE – LA LUCARNE COMMISSIONING EDITOR LUCIANO RIGOLINI WITH THE PARTICIPATION OF CNC, PROCIREP / ANGOA, SUNDANCE AND ARAB FUND FOR ARTS AND CULTURES CANADIAN PUBLICIST CANADIAN DISTRIBUTOR RYAN BRUCE LEVEY INDIECAN ENTERTAINMENT [email protected] AVI FEDERGREEN 647 781 0818 [email protected] INDIECAN 416 898 3466 PRESS KIT DOWNLOADABLE AT: ENTERTAINMENT INC. www.indiecanent.com/silveredwater INTERNATIONAL PRESS TOUCHWOOD PR FOR UNIFRANCE FILMS ANDREA GRAU [email protected] +1 416 347 6749 PRESS KIT DOWNLOADABLE ON: www.docandfilm.com INTERNATIONAL SALES DOC & FILM INTERNATIONAL DANIELA ELSTNER HANNAH HORNER 13 rue Portefoin + 33 6 82 54 66 85 + 33 7 70 15 96 69 75003 Paris France [email protected] [email protected] Tel + 33 1 42 77 56 87 / Fax + 33 1 42 77 36 56 ALICE DAMIANI GORKA GALLIER [email protected] + 33 6 77 91 37 97 + 33 6 30 99 72 06 www.docandfilm.com [email protected] [email protected].

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