Quebec Premiere
CSE 2022

Damascus Dreams

SYNOPSIS

A reinvented initiation story, Damascus Dreams tells the story of Émilie, a filmmaker in search of an inaccessible homeland. By interweaving her father's memories, those of Syrian refugees and her own imagination, Émilie creates a country that lies somewhere between myth and reality, dream and nightmare, past and present.

Theme(s): , Human Rights, Identity, Migration, War

DETAILS

Director | , Émilie Serri
Year | , 2021
Country | , Québec
Duration | 83 minutes
Original language | , Arabic, French
Subtitles | , French
Image | Andréanne Chartrand Beaudry, Émilie Serri, Olivier Gossot, Robin Pineda Gould
Editing | Émilie Serri, Omar Elhamy
Production | Audrey-Ann Dupuis-Pierre

DIRECTOR

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Émilie Serri

SEE COMPLETE PROFILE

Based in Montreal, Émilie Serri is a filmmaker, video installation artist and curator. Distributed by the experimental film company LightCone in Paris, her work has traveled to numerous festivals internationally, and to artist-run centers and galleries in Canada. In 2018, she won the prestigious Bronfman Fellowship in Contemporary Art. Her first feature documentary film had its world premiere at the International Film Festival Rotterdam.

PAST SCREENINGS

SCREENING 1

8 August 2022 at 20h30

Parc Dante

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SCREENING 2

15 August 2022 at 20h15

Parc Dante

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