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Release Date:
April 7, 2019
Original Title:
À la recherche de l'homme à la caméra
Genres:
Documentary
Production Countries:
France | Switzerland
Ratings / Certifications:
N/A
Runtime: 76
Boutheyna Bouslama remembers her holidays in Syria in the summer of 1994: a boy offered her an armful of cherries. He was called Oussama. Twenty years later, his name appears in the credits of Return to Homs by Talal Derki, programmed in Istanbul. The childhood friend has become “the man with the camera”, a “media activist” documenting the demonstrations and their repression by the Assad regime, until his arrest in 2012. The filmmaker sets off in search of the man whose name features on the list of the 70,000 forced disappearances that have occurred since the beginning of the conflict.
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Director:
Boutheyna Bouslama
Director of Photography:
Boutheyna Bouslama
Editor:
Boutheyna Bouslama
Giuliano Papacchioli
Original Music Composer:
Murat Öztürk
Barış Güvenenler
Producer:
Farid Rezkallah
Joëlle Bertossa
Sound:
Hakan Iğsız
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