Country: Syria

Direction Tewfik Saleh

Cast Mohamed Kheir-Halouani · Abderrahman Alrahy · Bassan Lofti Abou-Ghazala · Saleh Kholoki

Direction Talal Derki

Cast Abdul Basset Saroot

Synopsis From 2011 to 2013, filmmaker Talal Derki followed the journey of two close friends whose lives had been upended by the battle raging in Syria. Nineteen-year-old Basset is a local soccer star—the goalkeeper for the Syrian national team. He has...

Direction Ghiath Ayoub · Saeed Al Batal

Cast Ghiath Ayoub · Saeed Al Batal

Synopsis "Still Recording" is a feature documentary that follows art students Saeed and Milad, who decide to leave Damascus and go to Douma, a suburb under rebel control. Over more than four years, the film depicts the two friends and their...

Direction Wiam Bedirxan · Ossama Mohammed

Cast Wiam Bedirxan

Synopsis In Syria, everyday, YouTubers film then die; others kill then film. In Paris, driven by my inexhaustible love for Syria, I find that I can only film the sky and edit the footage posted. From within the tension between my...

Direction Firas Fayyad

Synopsis Amidst air strikes and bombings, a group of female doctors in Ghouta, Syria struggle with systemic sexism while trying to care for the injured using limited resources.

Direction Qais Al-Zubaidi

Direction Liwaa Yazji

Direction Rami Farah

Synopsis Three Syrian activists are reunited on a theatre stage in Paris. 10 years after the revolution, they revisit traumas and memories of a ferocious war.

Direction Jalal Maghout

Synopsis In Damascus, surrounded by war, an isolated man becomes increasingly lost in fantasies of escaping and the inner dialogues with his dog.

Direction Diana El Jeiroudi

Cast Orwa Nyrabeya · Guevara Namer · Rami Aboujamra

Synopsis She grew up in the lands of dictators and surveillance, where images are censored, photos are burned, thoughts are discreet, and mouths are kept shut.

Direction Abdellatif Abdelhamid

Cast Assaad Feddah · Rana Jammoul · Fayez Kazak · Ramy Ramadan

Synopsis Set in the north of Syria, a village idiot with an enormous nose (Ismail) falls in love with his beautiful neighbor (Salma), thus he sends his handsome friend - who also falls in love with her- to deliver her oral...

Direction Avo Kaprealian

Direction Yasmin Fedda

Cast Salem al-Shimmiri · Mohammad Hassan · Firas Majeed

Direction Ersin Çelik

Cast Arjîn Baysal · Arif Demîr · Sahire Ozhan · Delîl Pîran

Synopsis After her brother's death in the hands of ISIS, Zilan returns to her natal city, where the people's demonstrations are receiving brutal repression. In the fight for her people's freedom, she will not remain a passive witness.

Direction Qais Al-Zubaidi

Cast Abdallah Abbassi · Nadia Arslan · Adnan Barakat · Mouna Wasef

Synopsis The Yazerli is the foreman who provides work to day laborers. The film’s poetic, non-narrative structure simulates the fractured thoughts of a young boy who is forced to leave school and find work on the docks.

Direction Hatem Alí

Synopsis Three political prisoners are released from a Syrian prison after a long time. Their families prepare a celebration. Can they adjust to freedom? Meanwhile, their cell-mate, a stage actor, starts to develop a high fever.

Direction Omar Amiralay

Synopsis The documentary explores the implications of Baath Party policies in Syria. Without commentary or criticism, Amiralay's film exposes Baath party propaganda and its debilitating effects on the people of al-Mashi village, 400 kilometers (250 miles) northeast of Damascus. The film...

Direction Orwa Al Mokdad

Cast Adnan Al Ghajar · Aby Yaroob · Nour Al Mokdad · Firas Al Mokdad

Direction Abdellatif Abdelhamid

Cast Assaad Feddah · Najah Abdullah · Muhsen Ghazi · Tolay Haroon

Synopsis A bullying tomato farmer's family members gradually defy his authority one by one in 1967 Syria, pursuing personal paths as war rumors swirl.

Direction Wael Kadlo

Cast Ettihad Ghannoum · Sayah Kadlo · Amin Kadlo · Wafika Abo Nabbout

Synopsis When filmmaker Wael Kadlo picks up his mother from the airport in Beirut, it seems like a rather warm family visit. But Kadlo, who was born in Damascus in 1980, has some questions he needs to ask her.