Syria Movies

An autobiographical film about my childhood in Syria, the war and my escape from it. My childhood was happy but unusual: my mother raised me as a...

A fascinating film that combines archival footage and intimate encounters with 14 artists to present a meditation on a collective Syrian psyche that...

The Ezidîs (Yazidis) in Kurdistan have been the victims of massacres numerous times. This documentary follows their bards, the dengbêj,...

What will happen if you look outside? What will happen if you look inside?

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...

In the Syrian mountains of Al Ghalamoun, overlooking the vast desert, stands the ancient Christian monastery of Mar Musa—a beacon of interfaith...

Meyar Al Roumi returns to his native Damascus, eager to start making films, but he is censored. He draws inspiration from it to paint a portrait of...

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...

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.

A documentary highlights Syrian LGBT community, the film took place in Syria, Which is an oriental and conservative country that rejects such a...

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...

Amidst war, Joelle a young single mother, fights to protect her daughter after a terrorist bombing targets a nearby school bus. When a travel ban...

Director Yaser Kassab followed in his father’s footsteps by emigrating as a young man from Syria to Europe, and like his father he also had the...

The film is about a young-man lives his routine carelessly about life and reality, goes to work and faces a situation makes him remember things he...

Weary of the creative process, an old painter fixes a broken instrument he finds in the rubble. When his students go around looking for someone who...

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...

The film follows physician Dr. Hamza al-Khatib and nurse Um Ibrahim in al-Quds Hospital, by then the last operational one in besieged East Aleppo,...

The film tells the story of a robbery in which a girl suffers a conflict situation about the form of the victim that she wants to be, but in another...

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...