screenplay by Tawfik Sabouni and Laurine Estrade.
CNC – Audiovisual Innovation Fund (writing and development support) | Normandy Region (International co-development support) | Centre du Cinéma – FWB | Wallonie Image Production – WIP (development and production) | RTBF (Belgian public broadcaster) | Creative Europe MEDIA | DGD – Belgian Development Cooperation | Belgian National Lottery | Flemish Audiovisual Tax Shelter
Several years after my release from the Syrian prisons of 248 and Saidnaya, I decide to reclaim the memory of my captivity. I invite four other survivors, who endured the same prisons as I did, to speak out. Together, we remember, we reconstruct the events.
Tortured, denied our humanity while we were imprisoned, the experience of filming becomes a collective, polyphonic testimony, constantly questioning how to represent violence.
How do we tell the story of what happens on the other side of the sun?
Tawfik Sabouni