Ammar Obeid
, 2021
, 20 min
Mudar is a Syrian actor, flew to Germany by a visa from Beirut, he researches refugee’s journeys who came walking on their feet, for his theater play and explores the real experiences that immigrants lived throughout their road. After his meeting with a Syrian filmmaker Ammar Obeid, Mudar wants to stand naked outside in the…
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…
Eyas Almokdad
, 2022
, 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…
April 2024
Samer Najari, Meyar Al Roumi, Eyas Almokdad, Afraa Batous, Émilie Serri
REVOLUTION OF THE WIND …
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
, 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.
Samer Najari
, 28 min
Trying to freeze time is an illusion. Whatever we do, life unfolds in one direction. Memory is a dying horse is yet another desperate attempt to challenge the irreversibility of time. A sparse, raw, somehow childish collage of reminiscences filmed on Super 8 between Syria, France and Canada. The whole is accompanied by musical explorations.
Meyar Al Roumi
, 2001
Upon graduating from a film studies program in Paris, Meyar al-Rumi returns to his native Damascus, eager to start making films. But when the script he proposes is rejected by the censors, he is instead inspired to make a portrait of the Syrian filmmakers who have been affected most by censorship. The film is a…
March 2024
Layaly Badr, Ali Siam, Mohanad Yaqubi, Azza El-Hassan, Mustafa Abu Ali, Arab Loutfi
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…
