"Syria Mon Amour," the Japan title of "Silvered Water, Syria Self-Portrait," is a direct homage to Alan Resnais' 1959 classic antiwar movie "Hiroshima Mon Amour" and reflects a desire on the part of the two-person distribution team to put the film in a Japanese context. The original title, however, is derived from Simav — "silvered water" in Arabic — the first name of co-director Wiam Simav Bedirxan, who, living in Syria, filmed much of the movie's content.