International Short Film Competition
A refugee in Quebec revisits the violent loss of his best friend in Syria, confronting memory, exile, and trauma through water, voice, poetry and grainy black-and-white images.
A refugee in Quebec revisits the violent loss of his best friend in Syria, confronting memory, exile, and trauma through water, voice, poetry and grainy black-and-white images.
In 2012, Mohammed Awad witnessed the murder of his best friend by an armed militia near Damascus. Ten years later, now living as a refugee in Quebec, he revisits this wound through a collaborative experimental short with filmmaker Samy Benammar. Evocatively shot in black and white, the film reflects on death, displacement, and memory’s fragility, while questioning how and why traumatic stories should be told. Through water, silence, and voice, it offers intimacy, reflection, and haunting resilience.
