Syria Movies

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...

Bissan, a girl from Jerusalem, who has no-one left in her life except her old grandma, lives in an old house that used to belong to her ancestors,...

A short film about post-crisis Syria through the obsessions of a pregnant woman haunted by nightmares about deformed children in the destruction.

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...

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

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

In 2017, a group of women set out to create an all-women village in North-East Syria (Rojava). They built it using traditional materials and...

A smuggled camera slips into the heart of Hama. Amid hidden faces and disguised voices, one woman stands unmasked: Fidaa Al Hourani: doctor and...

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

In this contemplative homage to an important part of Damascene industrial history, the filmmaker revives the old steam engine plant of Damascus, once...

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.

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 the Syrian deserts of war, a love story blossoms between a young man and a young woman who turn cherries into pens as they write love letters to...

An ISIS propaganda film detailing the group's rise in Syria during the early 2010s and the start of the international military intervention against...

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,...

is a movie about Homs, the capital of the Syrian revolution. It was filmed in August 2011 during Ramadan. Obscurity is the basic element in this...

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

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,...

The story follows Abu Jad who encounters the woman Nahla, who suffers from her husband's injustice after he joins the Muslim Brotherhood at the time,...