WorldViews: ‘Return to Homs’: the Syria documentary that just won big at Sundance

By Max Fisher, January 28, 2014

Syrian director Talal Derki began filming in the city of Homs in August 2011, when there was still a glimmer of hope. He followed a small group of young men for two years, as the cycle of demonstrations and crackdowns spiraled into civil war and Derki's subjects -- and so many Syrians like them -- morphed from protesters to revolutionaries to rebels.