Citoyen Syamak
by Damien FRITSCH
2022 - 84 min - HD
In coproduction with Vià Vosges
With the support of the CNC and of Région Grand Est
Story Consultant: Zouhair Chebbale
Image: Damien Fritsch, Gautier Gumpper
Sound: Martin Sadoux, Jérémie Vernerey, Damien Fritsch
Editing: Damien Fritsch
Sound Editing and Mixing: Martin Sadoux
Color Grading: Gautier Gumpper
Music: Cédric Dupuy
SYNOPSIS
From morning to night, Syamak crisscrosses Strasbourg—always by bike. From the city hospital, where he works as an emergency room doctor, he heads to his office as the elected official in charge of housing, passing by a homeless shelter on the outskirts of town along the way. Then he dashes off to lead a meeting for a civic organization. Syamak is on all fronts. With the municipal elections approaching—in which he’s running on the Green and Civic Party ticket—the pace is picking up…
THE DIRECTOR
Writer-director, born in 1963 in Obernai. Master’s degree in ethnology from the University of Human Sciences in Strasbourg.
I taught filmmaking from 1995 to 2022 in the Film Department at Wissembourg High School, as well as in the bachelor’s and professional master’s programs in documentary filmmaking at the UFR Arts in Strasbourg.
From 2017 to 2022, I served on the audiovisual committee of SCAM (Civil Society of Multimedia Authors).
After studying ethnology in Strasbourg in the 1980s, I shot my first film, Anne, on my own with a friend who was a painter in 1993. With no money and just an HI-8 camera, I wanted to see if I was capable of making a film. I spent nearly six months following her as she worked and came to realize the depth of experience—and the challenge—involved in filmmaking. That marked the beginning of my cinematic journey, in which the people I seek to film help me understand life and the world. Since then, I have continued down this path, which keeps leading me to extraordinary people.
Other works with Ana Films :
Croire aux arbres (2025)
Exact Music (2019)
C'est ma vie qui me regarde (2015)
