Syria Movies

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...

The filmmaker’s directorial debut after joining the National Film Organization, this short documentary follows young children in preschool as...

In the year leading up to a 1985 international conference on gender equality in Beijing, filmmakers all over the world took part in a series of...

Director al-Beik's first film, shot in Damascus in 1995 at a flour mill next to his mother’s house.

The film was based on an interview with the late dramatist Saadallah Wannous a few months before he died of cancer. Wannous narrates his somber and...

Projected on the wall by the gallery exit was Big Rock Candy Mountain, 2015, a four-minute video animation of one thousand stills taken from footage...

The story is about a young-man searchs for a polt for a film, inspring that from his reality and a certain time that he lived through, but his...

Hessan is a Syrian poet and the father of four blind daughters. He hides the war from his kids. He has been invited to attend a poetry forum, but...

In a country undergoing an awakening, a middle-aged woman wanders through war-torn Damascus. Just a few weeks after Assad’s fall she is...

"In March 2011, I was 13 years old and the Syrian revolution began in my town, Deraa. My uncles, whom I loved so much, supported the regime of Bashar...

In a distant land where people end their lives by law, Camilia, who has just turned 18, fails to obtain a permit allowing her to do so because there...

Portrays a family in a remote village in the Jabal ‘Arouda region and lets its members voice their daily grievances. - Charlotte Bank

The art and beauty that Ritsos brought is never limited, I saw it in a person who paints a painting..or rather, paintings that are not just...

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...

Named after a facility built in the British Mandate of Palestine in 1930, Lydda Airport centres on the story of Hannibal, one of eight planes...

The film tells two love stories: one set in the city, the other in the countryside. Though shaped by different circumstances, both end in love left...