IMMORTAL SERGEANT

Ziad Kalthoum | Syria, Lebanon 2014 | 75 Min. | OmeU

A cinema that has been vacant for 15 years becomes a military base in Damascus and Ziad Kalthoum is stationed there as a sergeant. Secretly, he tries to film his everyday life with a small handheld camera, the interviews that emerge show a very personal picture of a torn country, the omnipresent fear of intelligence, the reports of captivity and torture and of relatives and neighbors who died or fled in the war. A courageous film in search of peace and freedom.