Return to homs follows cycle of syrian demonstrations. Syrian army pounding isis cells in homs desert the. Nineteenyearold basset is the goalkeeper for the syrian national soccer team. Shot between august 2011 and april 20, return to homs. A look behind the barricades of the besieged city of homs, where for nineteenyearold basset and his ragtag group of comrades, the audacious hope of revolution is crumbling like the buildings around them. Homs, an ancient city at the centre of a province with a population of two million, is a good place to judge the course of the war. The film takes a look behind the syrian insurgency. An unsparing documentary account of the besieged syrian city of homs follows two close friends whose lives are completely altered when their beloved city is bombed into a ghost town. Syrian filmmaker, talal derki, joins uttm to discuss his documentary return to homs.
I will be their faithful god, i will keep my promises to them. Watch return to homs online vimeo on demand on vimeo. Shot between 2011 and 20 and distilled from 300 hours of footage into 87 minutes, return to homs chronicles the syrian conflict as seen largely through the eyes of mr. A look behind the barricades of the besieged city of homs, where for nineteen yearold basset and his ragtag.
Then you can start reading kindle books on your smartphone, tablet, or computer no kindle device required. Syrian rebels evacuated homs in may in a deal that handed the old city back to the government, granting it a symbolic victory. But when the army cracks down and their beloved homs becomes a bombedout ghost town, these two peaceful protesters take up arms and transform into renegade insurgents, with devastating results. French translation of to return home the official collins englishfrench dictionary online. Filmed between august 2011 and august 20, return to homs is a remarkably intimate portrait of a group of young revolutionaries in the city of homs in western syria. Amid the debris of homs, a guerrilla is born the new. The return to homs is a 20 syriangerman documentary film written and directed by talal. Enter your location to see which movie theaters are playing the return to homs near you. Destroyed buildings are seen in the homs neighbourhood of khaldiyeh, formerly held by rebel fighters and captured by syrian government forces in summer 20, on june 3, 2014. Filmed between august 2011 and august 20, this is a remarkably intimate portrait of a group of young revolutionaries in the city of homs in. The atmosphere here is poisoned by fear of a kind i have only ever seen once before some 400,000 have fled the centre, held by rebels, and are scattered across the city. They dream of their country being free from president bashar alassad and fight for justice through peaceful demonstrations. It also served as the closing film at 2014 human rights film festival on march 28, 2014. According to a 2014 report by the united nations office for the coordination of.
Aleppo, and homs have sought refuge in the coastal region. The report no return to homs documents the government of bashar alassads strategy of besieging, starving, killing and transferring people from various cities and neighbourhoods in syria. Return to homs, which focuses on basset and his ragtag groups transformation and struggles, is a heartstopping, often wrenching study of the brutal war president bashar alassads regime has. The return to homs 2014 war turns syrian soccer star abdul basset saroot into a protest leader and singer who initially favors his countrys peaceful liberation from assad. The siege lasted three years from may 2011 to may 2014, and resulted in an opposition withdrawal from the city. Enter your mobile number or email address below and well send you a link to download the free kindle app. Return to homs won this years world cinema grand jury prize for documentary at the sundance film festival and will screen this month at the new directorsnew films festival in new york. All three can be freely downloaded from the web site of the syrian. Over 100,000 french translations of english words and phrases.
Clashes in the area broke out last week after isis cells conducted a large attack on positions of syrian troops involved in a security operation in the area. There is currently one video available for the film, of which one and only one is a trailer, as listed below. A look behind the barricades of the besieged city of homs, where for nineteenyearold basset and his ragtag. Emesa, is a city in western syria and the capital of the homs governorate.
Return to homs has rather more going for it than sheer topicality, however, and it should endure as a viscerally direct, consistently informative account of how participants experience the hazards. Opening film idfa 20 watch more join the discussion the official website download the epk the official website official youtube channel return to homs in the sundance film guide return to homs in the new york times return to homs on. Turning the stuff of headlines into intimate personal history, talal derkis. Challenge them to try to lift the other foot off the floor. Unlike jehane noujaims cairoset the square, which portrays the revolutionary mindset as a constant, forwardmoving phenomenon, return to homs reveals a far more frenzied, visceral. Towards a protection of the syrian cultural heritage unesco. Of course, this leads to confusion on the part of french students, which i am about to clear up forever. Return to homs an essential, groundlevel look at the syrian civil war, embedded among the men of zeer street and their charismatic champ, abdul. Osama is a 24yearold media activist and pacifist wielding his camera to document the revolution. On the frontline of the syrian civil war, it is at the epicenter of the defensive insurgency led by the charismatic abdul basset, goalkeeper of the national soccer team.
No return to homs 11 persecution faced by returnees. The report focuses on homs, the first major urban centre in syria to succumb to this siege and destroy strategy. To get the free app, enter your mobile phone number. But as assad cracks down theyre both forced to take up arms, with devastating results. French translation of to return home collins english. Turning the stuff of headlines into intimate personal history, talal derkis return to homs uses extraordinary accessfootage from young rebels private meetings and urban battlesas a. Assad regime regains total control of syrian city of homs. As the army acts ever more brutally and their city transforms into a ghost town, the. The return to homs is a 20 syriangerman documentary film written and directed by talal derki. Video archive for the film return to homs, which has a domestic theatrical release in the year of 2014. In all likelihood, only those who can prove that they left for eco nomic or. Residents return to homs, the capital of the revolution that was once vibrant with prodemocracy crowds but is now associated with images of ruin that epitomize the brutality of syrias civil war. The film was produced by proaction film, a partner of the open society arab regional office the syrian uprising has marked its third anniversary and has become a human tragedy where an estimated. Nationwide antigovernment protests began in march 2011, and clashes between security forces and protestors in homs intensified.
An orthodox christian family returns to the ruined syrian city where government troops drove out rebel forces only a few. In next weeks guardian you can download a syrian government video showing christians and alawite infidels having their heads being chopped. The official page of the documentary film return to homs idfa 20, sundance intl documentary award 2014. Return to homs follows cycle of syrian demonstrations a new documentary about the war in syria follows the transformation of peaceful demonstrators into. The siege of homs was a military confrontation between the syrian military and the syrian opposition in the city of homs as a part of the syrian civil war.
Return to homs full frame documentary film festival. Return to homs f ilmed during two years, from 2011 to 20, this by turns exhilarating and devastating documentary tracks some key players in the resistance against bashir alassads regime. Were sorry but jwapp doesnt work properly without javascript enabled. Return to homs puts human face on syria conflict voice. Filmed over 3 years in homs,accompanying 2 outstanding young men from the time they were only dreaming of freedom to the time when they are forced to. When revolution breaks out the charismatic young man becomes an iconic protest leader and singer. But when their beloved homs becomes a bombedout ghost town, these two are forced take up arms as insurgents. The syrian army and its allies fully repelled isis attacks near alsukhnah and wadi alwaer in the province of homs killing two dozens of terrorists, according to progovernment sources.
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