Silvered Water

Shot by a reported 1001 Syrians according to the filmmakers SILVERED WATER SYRIA SELFPORTRAIT impressionistically documents the destruction and atrocities of the civil war through a combination of eyewitness 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 selfreflexive film also chronicles how he is haunted in his dreams by a Syrian boy once shot to death for snatching his camera on the street