Directed by :
Laurent Lhermite and Romain Huët
Production :
entre2prises
co-producers :
- Les films de l'Ouest - tv bocal - Ciné 2000
With the participation of the CNC, and the support of the region Occitania /
Pyrénées-Méditerranée
We are on April, 25 2014. In the northern surbub of Hama (Syria), the towns of Morek and Kafr Zita are the target of around fourty daily air bombing.
After passing numerous checkpoints guarded by armed men of local brigades, we entered Morek with Ahmad. The city seems like crushed to me. Building are spread on the floor, walls are smashed, the mosque is shattered. Only the cracked concrete arrow of the minaret is still feverishly standing, as if it was here to remind those who enter in the city that war spares nothing, neither men or symbols.
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The fights are raging in the streets of Morek, a little town of Syria in the north of Hama.
Insurgents like Ahmad, Abu Moraï, Mohammed and Abu Jihad keep living despite the bombings.
This film dives into their everyday life, awaiting behind the lines as much as on the front, in the very heart of the fighting.
Listen to their words, somewhere between the intensity of the present moment, the darkness of the futur, the weakening and the madness.
Mohammed : Mohammed studied petrochemical engineering when the revolution broke out. He went missing a few months after our departure from Syria.
Ahmad is the young man we follow all along the movie. Before the revolution, he had a mobile phone shop with his brother Mahmoud, in Hama’s surbub. He is wandering since our departure, trying several times to cross the turkish border, unsuccessfully.
Abu Moraï was a carpenter in Hama. He was in the same brigade that Ahmad joined in september 2014. Several months after his arrestation by the Al Nosra brigade, he joined the Ahrar al-Sham one. He died in 2017 manipulating explosives, in Idlib’s area.
Abu Jihad is from the countryside in the north of Hama. Before the revolution, he was a construction painter in Lebanon. He came back to Morek, when the suppression became bloody. After his brother’s death during a fight, for lack of health care, he chose to become an ambulance driver. After Alep’s fall, he came back up to the north and Idlib’s area, bastion of the rebellion, to continue his work as an ambulance man.
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Every photos are Pierre Roth’s work and property and can’t be used without his agreement.
