︎


Home

Interactive / Immersive
 - The Pathogen of War
Feature Films
 - How We Work
 - Ayouni 
 - Queens of Syria   
 - A Tale of Two Syrias

Short Films
 - Abu Hawash
 - Breadmakers
 - Blink and You’ll              Miss Us
 - Found in Translation
 - Milking the Desert
 - Moving Pictures
 - Rebel Geeks: Steal        from the Capitalists - Siamo Tornati /We       are Back
 - Waiting for Spring
   
Projects/Programming

Media

Conferences + Presentations

Publications

News / Screenings

About
Mark

A Tale of Two Syrias (2012)





2012, 64 mins

Salem is an Iraqi fashion designer in Damascus. Botrus lives a remote existence in a hillside monastery. This consistently insightful and unexpected documentary offers a unique perspective on what the dream of freedom means to two very different people in the face of a brutal regime, creating a vital snapshot of life in the year before Syria’s uprising.

The film is available to stream on True Story.

Screened at numerous international film festivals including Glasgow Film Festival & Birds Eye View Film Festival.

Press
Eye on Film - A Tale of Two Syrias, 2013

Director & Editor- Yasmin Fedda / Producers- Jim Hickey, Robin Mitchell, Yasmin Fedda/ Executive Producers – Nick Higgins, Noe Mendelle, Jolyon Mitchell/Edit Consultant -Steve Sprung / Online Edit- Peter Appleyard / Sound Design – Marcelo de Oliveira / Assistant Producer,Sound Recording, Additional Camera -Dan Gorman / Voice Over Recording – Llewelyn Ap Myrddin /  Translation – Itab Azzam & Yasmin Fedda

A Tell Brak Films production with Cadies Productions & Freedonia Films. Made with support from the University of Edinburgh.