Azrak-ramadi

“I was fourteen when we crossed the Euphrates on a raft-shaped ferry, together with my father and the furniture-laden car. We had left the village of Tell Abiad in northern Mesopotamia to settle in Alep. I wanted to film the ferry, my home region, its people and its children, who were much like the kids my brother, my friends and myself had once been. I wanted to film the archaeological sites where I had often gone back to work as a photographer. I wanted to film what I held dear before it was all swallowed up by the dam.” (Mohamad Al Roumi)