World Cinema Amsterdam | Internationaal filmfestival | 18 – 27 Augustus 2016

Meyar Al Roumi*

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Biography

Meyar Al Roumi (1973, Damascus, Syria) worked as a photographer before coming to Paris to study cinema. After graduation in 2001 he has worked as a director of photography on a number of documentary and fiction films in France and in Syria. He has completed a feature documentary that portrays a number of taxi drivers in Damascus: Six Ordinary stories and the long feature film Round trip in 2012. Tijdens World Cinema Amsterdam zal onder het thema; Under pressure: filmmaking in Syria zijn korte documentaire Sinama Sameta vertoond worden.