Akram Zaatari Movies

This portrait of famed Armenian-Egyptian studio photographer Van Leo, whose career spanned some 50 years, is also a reflection on transformations in...

Taking the idea of loss and dispossession as a starting point, this film is a reflection on photography and its people. It looks at the position of...

In a city post-apocalypse, young men communicate only through smart devices. They make home out of urban debris. They can’t speak to each...

On Photography, People and Modern Times is a two-channel video installation that tracks photographic records that Akram Zaatari researched and...

A reflection on film and television, this video travels the globe mixing footage of real-life war and reel entertainment. COUNTDOWN explores our...

A late night online chat between two men who haven't met since the turn of the millennium leads to their reunion after ten years of separation. The...

One of Zaatari’s earliest experiments in documentary video, All Is Well on the Border emerged from the filmmaker’s desire to understand...

In the courtyard of an old house in Saida, a woman is rehearsing a scene from a movie. She introduces her family, and the camera records both...