AHLAN WA SAHLAN

In 2009 I was filming in Syria. While reconnecting the threads of a family memoir, which stretches back to the French mandate, I made friendships with Syrian families in Palmyra. In 2011 the revolution erupted, and in its wake the violent repression of the regime which forced me to stop filming. In 2019 I took up the camera once more, and set out to find these men to whom I’d left behind, telling them:« See you soon ?»