Syria Movies

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

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

Discussions on nonviolence between Syrian and Western thinkers.

A plastic artist suffers from extreme poverty. His friend convinces him to fake suicide so that he can become famous as a genius artist and sell his...

Bassel Shehadeh's last film.

When a man gets out of prison, he starts looking for work, but he discovers that he is alone with no family, so he decides to return to prison again....

Nour’s journey of coming to terms with her longing for her father and for Syria, as she confronts loss and the profound emotional impact of...

Three young men from different social classes, brought together by circumstances and coincidence, each with his whims, requirements, ambitions, and...

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

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

The story of Jiyan Tolhildan who fights for women’s freedom and against ISIS. This is a shortened TV version of the documentary film...

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

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.

"Nasr Hamed Abou Zayd is not Godot, and the expectation promised by the title is misleading: this great gentleman is present in almost every shot....

Hands, and the things hands do handsomely edited to some hand-conducted orchestral music. A short film by Syrian film director Abdellatif Abdul...

A belly dancer and prostitute falls in love with a famous doctor who asks her for marriage, but for the sake of her lover's social standing, she...

A subtle portrait of an elderly tailor who, following the arrest of his favorite son feels strongly disappointed by life and by the general...

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