Starting with Fragments

Film Info

Germany 2019 | 81 min. Director: Robert Dobe, Omar Shalash

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Production Company

ravir film GbR

Heinrich-Cotta-Str.5
01324 Dresden Phone +49 351 2633284 https://www.ravir.de

Funded by

Mitteldeutsche Medienförderung GmbH

Hainstrasse 17-19
04109 Leipzig

Kunststiftung des Landes Sachsen-Anhalt

Friedemann-Bach-Platz 5
06108 Halle (Saale)

Kulturstiftung des Freistaates Sachsen

Karl-Liebknecht-Str. 56
01109 Dresden

Sächsische Landesanstalt für privaten Rundfunk und neue Medien - SLM

Carolinenstraße 1
01097 Dresden

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Starting with Fragments

Tamer Alawam gave his life to shoot footage of the Syrian Revolution. His goal was to evoke empathy and appeal to the conscience of the western world. But how does German society react towards these images of war? A documentary about humanity, responsibility and the difficulties of finding the right way of action.

Synopsis

When Tamer Alawam was killed by a grenade in 2012, he left over 300 hours of film footage of the Syrian Revolution – images, which were meant to show Syria from inside. Overwhelmed by the flood of these images and driven by feelings of grief, responsibility and powerlessness, two young filmmakers and friends of Tamer in far away Germany start their own search for answers. While one of them meets with Tamer's companions to find out more about the motivations of his friend, the other begins collecting reactions in German society towards the war in Syria. A documentary about humanity, responsibility and the difficulties of finding the right way of action.