HOME OF THE RIVERS
General Information
Title In the original language: Beth Nahrain بيت النهرين
English title: Home Of The Rivers
French title: Le Foyer Des Rivières
Genre: Documentary
Runtime: 76 minutes
Filming format: Full HD
Screening format: DCP 2K 16:9 , Blu-ray
Release Date: 2/1/2018
Cast
Salam Al Zuheiri
Hanaa Mahawi- Al Zuheiri
Noura Al Zuheiri
Anwar Al Zuheiri
Yohan Al Zuheiri
Chekh Raad Al Hani
And the sculptore:
Fadi Yazegi
Credits
Production Company: Cinémaya Production, Damascus/Syria
Co-Founder: Etijahat Independent Culture
Director, Cinematographer and Producer: Maya Mounayer
Co-Producer: Fida Chalhoub
Editor: Mohammad Ali Maleh
Music & sound FX: Samir Kweifati
Stop Motion: Tamara Ibrahim
Coloring & FXV: Mounir Marzouk, Majed Rankoussi
Mastering: Rawad A. Messih
Sound Operators: Isis Mohammad, Rami Khouri
Technical support: Mohammed Aji
Ordinator in Middle East: Lama Tayara
Synopsis
Approaching death under the missiles several times in Damascus, has led to a second radical change in Salam Zuhairi's life.
Most of the religious and ethnic minorities were forced to leave Iraq since 2004 as a result of war.
After being displaced from Iraq to Damascus, the Mandaean community, for whom fighting is against religion, had no solution but to flee and spread (despite being a closed religion), or to die. As a result, Salam became "ishkanda" (the rank of a Mandaean clergyman), but had a sense of pain and loss of identity.
The new war he has been living for the second time in Syria is a source of inspiration for him to return to the practice of sculpting that has been cut off for more than 13 years.
With the support of his daughter Nora and the Syrian artist Fadi Yazji, he gradually manages to overcome the problem of the cleric/artist, sculpting the statue of "the cry", his cry, to stop all this death and human fragmentation.
The film revolves around the family of Zuhairi in the town of Jaramana, in the countryside of Damascus; it begins with the myth of the Rafidaini flood in a projection of the current Middle Eastern wars. Through the Zuhairi family, questions of identity and impact are raised, and life is restored, after total destruction, with an immigrant family from a country whose migration is one of the largest migrations of the modern era.
Teaser
Festivals
Muscat International Film Festival 2018 (Special mention) 
Oran Arab Film Festival 2018
Malmo Arab Film Festival 2018
Jerusalem International Film Festival 2018 (Golden Olive/ Best award for feature documentary)
Luxor African Film Festival 2019 (Best Artistic Achievement Prize / Freedom competition)
