Syria Movies

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...

Darên bitenê is a fascinating documentary exploring the “dengbej” musical heritage of the singers, poets and storytellers...

The construction of a dam on the Euphrates River is an example of a country’s economic development. Through grandly composed images, rhythmic...

"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...

Set in the director’s hometown of Hama, this short film presents a bold, unsettling attempt to expose the global Zionist movement by weaving...

In a small Syrian town, Yilmaz, a poor Kurdish café worker, dreams of becoming a filmmaker, inspired by his late father's love of cinema. With...

An experimental theatre project is touring Syria. Through interactive plays, they investigate violence in its different forms and question...

Mounir, a young musician, returns to his hometown in Aleppo, trying to establish a troupe. As he faces many bureaucratic problems, he falls in love...

A short, oneiric video in which a two-faced camera attacks its subject.

Dreams are the only way for a Kurdish mother from Kobane to meet her martyr son during many years

At a bus stop caught between worlds, two very different birds cross paths and what starts as an innocent encounter quickly spirals into a wildly...

A man recollects the conflict in the middle east through his personal memory. In this short documentary, Amiralay reflects on the first time he heard...

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,...

I Want to Live is a documentary on the lives of Kurdish Refugees from Syria, living in refugee camps in Kurdistan. Shot on location, it is set...

The life of a young family as it is interwoven with the stories of the past year; of protests, change, revolutions and martyrs. The birth of a baby,...

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

After being forced to flee persecution in their homeland, a Syrian couple begins a new life in a small town in France, but soon faces challenges due...

A Syrian refugee, once full of dreams, now lives a life of quiet repetition. At night, after a long day at work, he finds a fleeting escape in a...

The final scene brings us back to the first year of the start of the Syrian revolution, through the story of activist Orwa Al Mokdad, who documented...

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...