The Return to Homs Page #3

Synopsis: 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 change course. Basset, the 19yo national football team goalkeeper, who became an outspoken demonstration leader in the city, then an icon revolution singer, till he becomes a fighter... a militia leader. Ossama, his 24yo friend, renowned citizen journalist, cynical pacifist... as his views are forced to change, until he is detained by army secret service. It is the story of a city, of which the world have heard a lot, but never really got closer than news, never really had the chance to experience how a war erupted. a modern times epic of youth in war time.
Director(s): Talal Derki
Production: Gathr Films
  6 wins & 4 nominations.
 
IMDB:
7.7
Metacritic:
85
Rotten Tomatoes:
93%
NOT RATED
Year:
2013
94 min
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thinking I may hit a curb

and flip the car!

- Come on, join us.

- My family is worried.

They know I was crossing.

I have to go.

God be with you.

Wake up! You're still sleeping?

Are you by yourself?

Where are the others?

- There's only me.

- Wake up.

- I had the most terrible sleep.

- Why?

- Patients started to come at 7 o'clock.

- Who came?

How should I know? Abu As'ad sent me

a patient and God knows who else!

What was the problem?

One needs coronary catheterisation and

another needs urinary catheterisation...

from 7 am.

Let's get him.

Carry him carefully.

O Lord, may you accept him.

O Lord, may you accept him.

Get back, get back.

O Lord, may you accept him.

Get in the car with me.

Have a seat, Hajji.

Where is your car, Hajji?

O Lord, may you accept him.

There is no God but Allah.

There is no God but Allah.

Homs, don't worry. I will sacrifice

my soul and blood for you.

Tomorrow the regime will fall

and its supporters will flee.

The traitor sent his thugs to the streets

while he begs Iran for help.

Khalediya and Baba Amr are united

and steadfast against the traitors.

Homs, don't worry; I'll sacrifice

my soul and blood for you.

Tomorrow the regime will fall

and its supporters will flee.

Homs, our eyes are open,

day and night...

until this back-stabbing regime falls.

Saturday, February 4th, 2012.

The Khalediya massacre.

The neighborhood which was

the revolution's heart, its compass...

Shelled with mortar grenades...

killing many of its residents.

Friends of mine were killed, what a pain!

The majority of casualties

were children and elderly.

The shelling took place because

the army failed to enter.

Families, women and children...

were slain with knives.

The dream of a revolution with

songs and peaceful protest ended.

The dream ended.

The young boys' dream of freedom

arriving soon ended.

The beat of the drum... the dancing ended.

They say our revolution is sectarian,

but it's they who are building sectarianism.

This is what we are able to show you.

It's only a part of the many martyrs today.

In this clinic in Khalediya...

we have around twenty or more martyrs...

These are the ones we know of here.

Mosques are full of martyrs.

The national hospital too...

Al-Amal hospital has many martyrs...

Near Rifai Mosque, they're

slaughtering everybody there.

They forced us to flee our homes at 2 am.

We've been moving

from place to place for 3 days.

- What happened?

- Plenty of shelling!

With tanks, targeting everybody.

- You left your homes?

- I wear, we had to leave at 2 am.

The Alawites... and all of them...

They came at us with tanks

and they're not leaving anyone.

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Talal Derki

Talal Derki (Arabic: طلال ديركي ; born 24 July 1977 in Damascus, Syria of Kurdish descent) is a director, producer and screenwriter. Talal Derki studied film directing in Athens at Stavrako High Institute of Cinematographic Art and Television, graduation in 2003. He worked as an assistant director for feature film productions and was a director for different Arab TV programs & TV films between 2009 and 2012. He worked as a freelance cameraman for CNN and Thomson Reuters. Talal Derki’s short films and documentaries received awards at a variety of festivals. His feature documentary RETURN TO HOMS has won the Sundance Film Festival’s World Cinema Grand Jury Prize. In 2014 he was a member of the international Jury at IDFA. Talal Derki lives now in Exile in Berlin, Germany. more…

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