3350 KM

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Production year: 2023

Duration: 00:13:00

Produced by: Sara Kontar

Synopsis: From my room in Paris, in exile, 7 years away from Syria, far from my father who remained alone, haunted by the ghosts of the past and a lost future, I record our phone conversations. He describes the country to me, his solitude, his pain. I film this screen that both connects and separates us, my only window of communication. My memories fade every day, my life severed, my homeland unreachable.

Director: Sara Kontar

Nationality: Syria

Director Bio: Sara Kontar is a Syrian artist, photographer, and filmmaker based in France since 2016. She holds a Master s degree in animation cinema from L’École Nationale Supérieure des Arts Décoratifs de Paris (ENSAD). Before her first documentary 3350 KM in 2023, she created experimental video works, including A Wave in 2020 and Back-And-Forth in 2022, which were showcased at Centre Pompidou in 2022, followed by an exhibition at Palais de Tokyo in 2023. Her work focuses on her Syrian roots and the experience of exile. Sara is the founder of Al-Ayoun, a space for visual storytellers in Syria and the diaspora.