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An investigative documentary that follows the narrator as she seeks out Seymo, a childhood friend with whom she used to play in the streets of Homs.
"Looking for the Man with the Camera" is a journey that takes the narrator from Geneva to the Syrian border, relentlessly looking for her childhood friend, a missing Syrian media activist. During the three years search we witness different stages of hope, fear and despair, where the search of a beloved one transcends the political and military chaos.
Through the narrator’s and her friend’s involvement in film making, it is a self reflective questioning of war image and its role for memory and as a witness against war crimes.

Credits

Director
Boutheyna Bouslama
Producer
Farid Rezkallah
Co-Producer
Close Up Films
Production Company
24images
Cast
n/a

About the Director

Boutheyna Bouslama
Born in Paris from Tunisian parents in 1982, Boutheyna Bouslama is a filmmaker and a visual artist who lives and works between Istanbul, Paris and Geneva.<br /> She studied Visual arts in The Monaco Art School then in 2010 she obtained her Masters with a double major in Visual Arts and Cinema from the University of Art and Design of Geneva (HEAD-Geneva). She worked as a teaching assistant / lectur