After he completed his mandatory military service, the filmmaker was held in retention as the revolution unfurled in his country. His military rank was that of a sergeant. During these times, he would go back to his home, located in the middle of Damascus city, take off his military uniform and return to his normal life, working as an assistant director with his friend, the filmmaker Mohammed Malas. To make sense of this schizophrenic situation, he decides to take his camera and start shooting a ‘making-of’ that will eventually go beyond Malas’s film.
Ziad Kalthoum
Director
Homs - Syrie, la vie d’après
2025
The War Around Us
2014
Teaching War
2016
CIVIL WAR SURVEILLANCE POEMS (Part 1)
2019
Discoveries…America: National Parks - Dry Tortugas, Fort Jefferson & Florida Keys
2012
Touring Civil War Battlefields
1987
Here and Elsewhere
1976
Armadillo
2010
Colombia in My Arms
2022
Voice of Syria
I Burned Legs
1993
Fahrenheit 9/11
2004