Syria Movies

An intimate portrait of Syrian actor Fares Helou, who calls for freedom of speech, is forced out of his home country and experiences the absurdities...

Veteran Syrian director Hala Alabdalla returns to LFF with a moving portrait of her late friend and pioneer of Arab non-fiction cinema.

Archaeology inspector and conservator Abou Farid shares part of his image library documenting the condition of mosaic works in the aftermath of...

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

A tour guide is caught between two men: the first is a powerful and influential businessman, who is secretly married to the tour guide, and demands...

Intersection of the roads of twins allotted years ago.

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

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

"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...

A man is being chased by group of people got rescued by a woman named Turkman. This man is astonished that Turkman knows too much about him.

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...

Germany, September 2014. A Syrian refugee camp has opened on the outskirts of Berlin. Visual artist and filmmaker Ammar al-Beik has a cubicle...

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

Expressing desire, pursuing dreams, loving oneself, questioning the oppressive confines of patriarchy. Farida Baqi takes us on a lyrical and...

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...

Interviews with three Syrian women who live in exile.

Unable to afford the dowry of his wealthy sweetheart, a young man is devastated when his beloved's father forces her to marry another, leaving him to...

A look at the Baath party's project to construct a system of dams.

A filmed version of the theater play about the famous Kurdish poet Evdalê Zeynikê.