Syria Movies

It is the void in its Syrian sense. A short independent musical film produced in 2021, directed by Hussam Hammo, it follows the story of a Syrian...

An experimental film made by Bassel Shehadeh in the fall of 2011 while studying at Syracuse University in New York. The film is based on Mahmoud...

When a film crew descends on a rural Syrian village, the act of filmmaking itself begins to unsettle everyday life. Centered on Najla, the film...

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

The ending feelings ain't always the end, when we feel death is near, some keeps on silence, other scream..but who talk to himself then?

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...

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...

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...

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,...

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...

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

In 90 seconds, Nabil Maleh mimics the tone and cadence of an American-style television advertisement, pitching napalm as if it were a consumer...

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

A man recollects the conflict in the middle east through his personal memory. In this short documentary, Amiralay reflects on the first time he heard...

The final scene brings us back to the first year of the start of the Syrian revolution, through the story of activist Orwa Al Mokdad, who documented...

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...

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,...

Back at the place of his childhood in northern Mesopotamia, the author learns that this entire region will be engulfed in the waters of the largest...

The film is based on a line from the Gospel of Thomas: "Jesus says: Find one who was not born of woman, fall on your face (and) worship him. That...

A poor Syrian kid with a great love for music sees a young woman playing accordion so he starts chasing her to get into a music institution where he...