Our Memory Belongs to Us

Production year: 2021
Country: Syria
Director: Rami Farah
Producers: Signe Byrge Sørensen, Lyana Saleh & Anne Köhncke

How do you survive? By forgetting or by remembering? This eternal question is still very alive for the three Syrian activists Yadan, Odai and Rani. Before the war they were, respectively, a law student, a lover of literature and a volleyball champion. In 2012, Yadan crossed the border into Jordan, carrying a hard disk containing more than 12,000 videos shot by himself and other citizen journalists in Daraa, the birthplace of the Syrian revolution. In this emotion-laden documentary, the old friends meet again in an empty theatre in Paris after a long period of separation.