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Syrian documentary scoops major award at Sundance festival: TRAILER
Return to Homs, a documentary by Syrian director Talal Derki, awarded World Cinema Grand Jury Prize for Documentary at Sundance Film Festival
Ahram Online Published in Ahram Online on 27 - 01 - 2014

Syrian documentary Return to Homs was among the top award winners at the Sundance Film Festival held between 16 and 26 January 2014 in Utah, USA.
The film won the World Cinema Grand Jury Prize for Documentary against a large number of American and international films in the category.
Return to Homs, by Syrian director Talal Derki, was filmed over two years, between August 2011 and August 2013. The film follows the lives of two young men: Basset, national football team goalkeeper, and his friend Osama, citizen journalist and activist. While the two friends pursue their revolutionary dreams the viewer is presented with shocking images and the realities of Syria's revolution and the deplorable state of Homs as it awaits help from a stagnant international arena.
"This is Homs, but I don't know where I am," says Basset in the film.
Other awards given at the festival included: Dramatic Movie US Grand Jury Prize and Audience Award forWhiplash; US Grand Jury Prize for Documentary forRich Hill; Audience Award: US Documentary forAlive Inside; Audience Award: Best of NEXT forImperial Dreams; World Cinema Grand Jury Prize for Drama forTo Kill a Man.
Launched in 1978, the Sundance Film Festival is one of the most important independent film festivals.
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