Dream: documentary about The suffering of Homs' Al Waer children

Muhannad Al-Hamoud’s documentary film Dream is unveiling and showing the sufferings faced by the children of Homs’ Al-Waer during the siege years.

The Syrian film released in a  5 km area, where children lived almost nothing about life in light of the war and siege of the neighborhood west of the city of Homs, which is the last rebellious region of Homs that withstood the regime and lived a bitter siege and starvation between  2013 and 2017.

Over 21 minutes, the 11-year-old girl, Rama, recounts the contradictions of innocent dreams of children with the tragedy of the dramatic reality that these children, who share a wound, pain and delayed dreams, faced.

The film's raw materials happened under extremely difficult circumstances, including the lack of equipment necessary to carry out the work, in addition to the lack of necessary security  to shoot  without interruption.

Al-Hamoud told "Zaman Al Wasl" that what he worried about most during the journey of making the film was the company of children and the fear of something bad happening to them, as his film team faced many obstacles until they thought of stopping the work more than once.

The director, 20, revealed that his film team faced other difficulties, including having to go to shelters during bombing campaigns and stop life or what is like life more precisely, and this was the reason for delaying the completion of the documentary materials.

The director explained that the reason for choosing Rama to be the cornerstone of the film is that she is the youngest of the action characters, and as a child, this makes the viewer feel tenderness, security and confidence with her narration and commentary on the events.

He concluded that the new reality in which we live makes it difficult to undertake individual initiatives, such as the one he had previously undertaken with others to make films and artistic projects that convey the suffering of our people in the camps, what their condition has reached and the condition of these children whose fate has become unknown and we know nothing about them now.