The Return to Homs

The Return to Homs is a 2013 SyrianGerman documentary film written and directed by Talal Derki. It is produced by Orwa Nyrabia and Hans Robert Eisenhauer while Diana El Jeiroudi served as the associate producer. The film premiered incompetition at the 2013 International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam on November 20, 2013, as the opening film of the festival.

In the middle of Syrian Civil War, the film follows, 19yearold national football team goalkeeper, Abdul Baset AlSarout and 24yearold Ossama, his media activist and journalist friend, their daily life in the city of Homs which has become a bombedout ghost town by Syrian Army on Syrias leader Bashar alAssad orders. Their homes, lives and dreams destroyed and in order to gain freedom, they are forced to change course Baset and Ossama turned from peaceful protesters into rebel insurgents.The Return to Homs received mostly positive reviews upon its premiere at the 2014 Sundance Film Festival. Peter Debruge of Variety, said in his review that Talal Derkis Return to Homs represents a remarkable achievement in immersive conflictzone filmmaking, fearlessly taking auds to the front lines of the Syrian civil war and embedding them alongside soccer star turned resistance leader Abdul Baset AlSarout, a charismatic nonviolent protestor pushed into taking up arms against the oppressive regime. ........

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