Syria Movies

Quneytra 74 begins with shots of people on the edge of the blasted city of Kuneitra. A woman breaks away from the crowd, makes her way towards the...

An intimate portrait of Syrian actor Fares Helou, who calls for freedom of speech, is forced out of his home country and experiences the absurdities...

Archaeology inspector and conservator Abou Farid shares part of his image library documenting the condition of mosaic works in the aftermath of...

"A Small City Dream" is an earlier version of "City Dreams" by director Mohammed Malas. Malas directed the short film in 1970 while he was studying...

Seven scenes from a shattered life, a buried dream, and a homeland that now holds only memories. Within them, a young boy and girl face a fateful...

Trained as an electrician, Nazih Shahbandar became fascinated with the technology behind film production and was one of the pioneers of cinema...

"Iraqis in Multi-classes Exile" is documentary exploring the fragmented lives of Iraqi intellectuals exiled in Damascus, Syria, many of whom fled...

Germany, September 2014. A Syrian refugee camp has opened on the outskirts of Berlin. Visual artist and filmmaker Ammar al-Beik has a cubicle...

Aspirin and a Bullet (2011) is the first feature film by Syrian multimedia artist Ammar Al-Beik. The 2-hour autobiographical black and white film...

During the Syrian Revolution, Syrian investigative journalist Ahmet Haj Bakri and Turkish war correspondent Neslihan Önder, who documented some...

An experimental film made by Bassel Shehadeh in the fall of 2011 while studying at Syracuse University in New York. The film is based on Mahmoud...

Nour’s journey of coming to terms with her longing for her father and for Syria, as she confronts loss and the profound emotional impact of...

A humble man encounters a group of hippies and develops feelings for one of them. As they get married, they cannot find a place to stay, and he...

In Slot in Memory, a 2013 short from Syrian filmmaker Khaled Abdulwahed, images of war are only visible through a tiny crack in an otherwise dark...

The film takes us on a brief journey across the skies of Damascus, passing over the communities that have arrived in the Levant with all their...

The film gives an interesting insight on the memories of different activists in different Syrian cities on the first weeks and months of the Syrian...

Discussions on nonviolence between Syrian and Western thinkers.

Houda al-Habash, a conservative Muslim preacher, founded a Qur'an school for girls in Damascus, Syria when she was just 17 years old. Every summer,...

Seven Damascenes, eight years apart, one collective trauma. This is the story of a city and the psychological scars its people bear from years of war.

Mona and her friend Suheir travel to Syria to meet her fiancé. Mona’s father requests the son of his friend Kamal residing in Syria to...