The Return to Homs Page #5

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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Shrapnel pierced into all parts of his body.

He told his friends, as if to say farewell."

"I love you.

His friend, the kind doctor,

was cutting his sweater and crying...

"I like this sweater", he told him.

He moved his right hand with

difficulty and continued talking.

The finger may need to be amputated.

Do what you have to do.

Ossama then went unconscious.

Brave rebels liberated...

many of the city's

governmental buildings...

The revolution's armed power

started to grow...

relying on what rebels plunder

from the army...

and on individual donations

from abroad.

However, they didn't learn

to secure their support lines.

The rebels of Homs lost the big battle...

after being lured by their small victories.

This is a gift from Abdul Basset Saroot...

to our "terrorist" brother, who is armed

only with a camera, the journalist Ossama.

This is a photo of when he was young,

with his father and younger siblings.

We found it here in your house.

Those are your cups, my dear, so that

you can wash them when you come back.

This is the destruction caused by a rocket.

You were targeted, brother.

We're proud of you, Ossama.

I told you, we should've fought

peacefully with olive branches...

You insisted on arming the revolution!

or was it the other way around?

Calm down.

Go and stand next to the cars.

They've burnt down our homes and

displaced us. Please, dont film my face.

Sister, this is Abdul-Basset Saroot

from Homs, Khalediya.

UN observers arrived here yesterday,

we wanted to take them into Bayada.

The regime stopped shelling yesterday

while the observers were here.

They spared Muslim souls only

in front of the 6 UN observers.

Observers said they only had 30min

Homs and all the destruction...

they only had half an hour to see it.

Six observers for the whole city.

They were unable to do anything.

- What's that in his elbow?

- A shrapnel.

- Is it out?

- No, it's deeply embedded.

Can you get out mortar shrapnel

with a magnet?

- It's made of aluminum.

- No it is not!

Kamel has to attend tonights meeting.

Go get him to go...

- He should demand ammo!

- All meetings are a futile.

I know, but that's

cos' we should be working!

We are the only ones fighting

on this battlefront.

He has to go and ask for

ammunition and supplies.

Come in!

Hello, we're coming in, make way!

Man, I want to understand,

where are the sofas?

The battlefront is there, isn't it?

- Are we in danger here?

- No, don't worry.

What's the deal with this gas cylinder?

It hasn't blown up!

And this is the fridge. It's gone.

My mug!

I had a shirt with the same design.

Well, now it has a thermal print,

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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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