June 2024
Sherko Abbas
, 2019
, 60 min
April 2024
Yazan Rabee, Ammar Obeid, Reem Al-Ghazz, Wael Kadlo
REVOLUTION OF THE WIND …
Yazan Rabee
, 2022
, 7 min
A chase, footsteps closing in; as you approach your house, it moves further away. This is a recurring nightmare, shared by many Syrians who have fled their homeland. At night they find themselves back in their hometowns, running, chased by invisible men. They’re looking for a safe place they can never reach. BACK dives into…
Reem Al-Ghazz
, 2023
, 67 min
Before taking the stage, a group of young Syrian women acting in a work of documentary theatre must unravel the legacy of patriarchy in their upbringing – all while making their lives anew in Germany and coming into their own.
Wael Kadlo
, 2018
, 64 min
Through his quest to better understand the shredded state of his family, Wael questions the long-lasting socio-political crisis in Syria. In 1980, I was born in Syria coinciding with the launch of a project aiming to build an international highway only a few meters away from my house – a bridge that would separate the…
Samer Najari, Meyar Al Roumi, Eyas Almokdad, Afraa Batous, Émilie Serri
Afraa Batous
, 78 min
In the summer of 2020, Afraa, the director, and her three counterparts – Rahaf, Rawa, and Sara –set off on their very first road trip through Europe. But this is no ordinary vacation, and neither are these women. Each of them came to Europe by a different route and had to make different choices in…
Émilie Serri
, 2021
, 83 min
Damascus Dreams follows a filmmaker’s journey to her inaccessible homeland as she composes a Syria that stands somewhere between reality and myth, dream and nightmare, past and present.
Eyas Almokdad
, 98 min
The Final Scene brings us back to the first year of the Syrian revolution through the story of the activist Orwa Al Mokdad, who documented the events of the first year of revolution. After leaving Syria to Lebanon, Orwa presented all the material he recorded to his brother Eyas – a filmmaker based in Belgium…
March 2024
Azza El-Hassan, Mustafa Abu Ali, Arab Loutfi, Layaly Badr, Ali Siam, Mohanad Yaqubi
ARCHIVES OF POWER: The Palestinian Film Archive and the Erasure of History Screening Online on artearchive.org from March 7 – 17, 2024 (Available Worldwide) Screening in-person at Anthology Film Archives from March 8-12, 2024 (Get Tickets Here) Archives, often perceived as impartial guardians of history, are actually deeply entwined with political agendas. In the context of the Palestinian struggle, archives have…
