We Are From There

Jamil and Milad are brothers with very different personalities Jamil is a getupandgo carpenter following in his fathers footsteps Milad is a sensitive trumpeter and dreamer As their home country Syria sinks further into war Jamil emigrates first to Beirut and then makes an illegal journey to Sweden Milad stays in Damascus but eventually cant take it any longer and decides to leave to Berlin Their cousin Wissam records their journey for over five years bringing back childhood memories while questioning the true meaning of home The traumatic war in Syria plays a background role in this documentary which focuses more on the psychological effects of being uprooted and the way the brothers who had previously hardly travelled deal with emigration It draws with humility and admiration the human ability to cope with change as radical as it can be Jamil and Milad are achievers each adapting his own way