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
Dead Gay Men and Living Lesbians
2008
The Great Escape
2017
The Fighting Liberator
1994
I sette contadini
1958
Fahrenheit 9/11
2004
The Boy of The Fish
2024
T'es où, Youssef?
2017
Morristown: Where America Survived
2009
Al Amal: A Journey of Hope
2025
Caudillo
1977
Here and Perhaps Elsewhere
2003
Sierra Leone Rising
2010