Looking for the Man with the Camera

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.

• Boutheyna BouslamaDirector · Director of Photography · Editor
• Farid RezkallahProducer
• Joëlle BertossaProducer
• Murat ÖztürkOriginal Music Composer
• Barış GüvenenlerOriginal Music Composer
• Giuliano PapacchioliEditor

Trailer | Looking for the Man with the Camera | Boutheyna Bouslama

Release date

April 7, 2019

Status

Released

Original language

French

Runtime

1h 16m

Genres

Documentary