Our Memory Belongs to Us

In September 2012, Yadan Draji, a Syrian activist, crossed the border to Jordan carrying a hard drive containing footage. He and four of his friends had been filming the Syrian uprising since the first day in the city of Daraa, as it went from a non-violent movement, to a militarized conflict, escalted to an Islamized conflict and a vicious civil war. This film investigates these images and the narratives they became part of on TV-screens in the Arab world and the West. This film aims to make us rethink their stories and the media machine they became a part of.