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- DirectorEvgeny AfineevskyStarsHadi Al AbdullahRaed Al SalehRiad Al-AsaadCRIES FROM SYRIA is a searing, comprehensive account of a brutal five-year conflict from the inside out, drawing on hundreds of hours of war footage from Syrian activists and citizen journalists, as well as testimony from child protesters, leaders of the revolution, human rights defenders, ordinary citizens, and high-ranking army generals who defected from the government. Their collective stories are a cry for attention and help from a world that little understands their reality or agrees on what to do about it. A documentary by Evgeny Afineevsky, director of the Oscar-nominated film WINTER ON FIRE, CRIES FROM SYRIA premiered at the 2017 Sundance Film Festival.
- DirectorFeras FayyadSteen JohannessenStarsKhaled Umar HarahBatulMahmoudKhaled, Mahmoud and Subhi volunteer with the White Helmets trying to save lives of hundreds of victims in the besieged city of Aleppo during the Syrian Civil War.
- DirectorAmir OsanlouOur daily life is full of voices that most of us do not hear because of repetition, As if they no longer exist.Sounds of car bug, car radio sound, traffic jerky voice, children's voice, bird sounds that read every morning to inform us from the beginning of the day. But in Aleppo, people were accustomed to the sounds of war, rockets, and mortars, To the sound of the mother's cries and the cry of the fathers, Break the glass and destroy the houses. Now the war is over and everything is drowned in silence and wind. Silence is as eternal as is full of fear and loneliness. Full of stories buried under the rubble. Aleppo: The silence of the War film depicting this fragile silence after the war.The silence from years of war.A silence that does not mean peace, nor the meaning of war!
- DirectorSam KadiStarsRobert FordNajlaa AlsheikhMotaz MoradThe story of iconic Syrian peace activist Ghiyath Matar whose brutal torture and death at the age of 26 outraged the international community and erupted into one of the most violent uprisings in modern history.
- DirectorSam KadiStarsRobert FordNajlaa AlsheikhMotaz MoradThe story of iconic Syrian peace activist Ghiyath Matar whose brutal torture and death at the age of 26 outraged the international community and erupted into one of the most violent uprisings in modern history.
- DirectorZiad KalthoumStarsTia AlkerdiYara IbrahimSyrian construction workers build skyscrapers in Beirut while their homes are being bombed.
- DirectorAndaç HaznedarogluStarsSaba MubarakYesim Ceren BozogluSebnem DönmezEight-year old girl Lena who has lost her family members in a war wends her way with her little sister and their neighbor Meryem and other immigrants.
- DirectorSoudade KaadanStarsReham AlkassarSawsan ArshidYara IbrahimIn Syria in 2012 a mother ventures into a war zone to find a gas cylinder so she can prepare a meal for her son. She discovers that in the besieged area the people there have lost their shadows.
- DirectorMatthew HeinemanStarsAbdelaziz AlhamzaMohamad AlmusariHamoud AlmousaA documentary that follows the efforts of "Raqqa Is Being Slaughtered Silently," a handful of anonymous activists who banded together after their homeland was taken over by ISIS in 2014. With deeply personal access, this is the story of a brave group of citizen journalists as they face the realities of life undercover, on the run, and in exile, risking their lives to stand up against one of the greatest evils in the world today.
- CreatorJon FosterJames LamontStarsDanny KirraneDylan EdwardsGwyneth KeyworthSurreal slacker comedy set in a West Country village where the lives of a group of twenty-something friends are changed forever by the appearance of a familiar figure as a spirit guide.
- DirectorMichal PrzedlackiWojciech SzumowskiAleppo. Notes from the Dark shows an agony of the city, once - the largest one in Syria, now turned into rubble and abandoned of life.
- DirectorDavid RufStarsNoor KaysonNajem Edden Al KassemJawa Al KassemFive children running from the war in Syria set out on a journey that soon leaves the realms of reality. Acted completely by Syrian children who themselves fled to Turkey, this film is a multi-layered parable for what war does to children.
- DirectorMeyar RoumiStarsAmmar Haj AhmadAlexandra KahwagiWalid and Souhaire are unmarried lovers, which poses lots of problems for them in Damascus. Souhaire connives a visit to family in Tehran so that she and Walid can enjoy a weekend together but the journey leaves them questioning their relationship.
- DirectorRobert RippbergerStarsJanine di GiovanniNicole TungOmar HattabIn the most dangerous country in the world for journalists, Newsweek Middle East editor, Janine di Giovanni, risks it all to bear witness, ensuring that the world knows about the suffering of the Syrian people.
- StarsLyse Doucet
- DirectorOrwa Al MokdadStarsOrwa Al MokdadThe film explores the distance between divided areas that had been created in Syria, literally and metaphorically, which goes back to the formation of the state of Israel, which tore the region apart, in terms of belonging, identity, and priorities. Being in the north, I am 300 miles away from my niece, Nour, who is in the south. That's the same distance my grandfather used to go from our village, Ghasam, to the Haifa port in Palestine. My grandfather married a Palestinian woman who was displaced after Nakba (1948). Neither she nor he were able to go back to Palestine. After Nakba, oppressive regimes were created to rule the region in the name of the Palestinian cause. The practices of the last regime led to a revolution that tried to alter the distances. The regime, and the whole world behind it, has been doing everything to bury the revolution and kill its spirit. Distances between Syrian cities became impossible. Nour is in the south. Through her camera, she asks me about the distance that separate us, and why I cannot go back. I am in the north, trying to find answers about the complications that turned the revolution into a war, through Adnan, the civil activist, and Abu Yaa'rob, the Free Syrian Army fighter.
- DirectorJulia MeltzerLaura NixHouda al-Habash, a conservative Muslim preacher, founded a Qur'an school for girls in Damascus, Syria when she was just 17 years old. Every summer, her female students immerse themselves in a rigorous study of Islam, in addition to their secular schooling. A surprising cultural shift is underway-women are claiming space within the mosque, a place historically dominated by men. Challenging tradition, Houda insists education for women is a form of worship. Using Qur'anic teachings, she encourages her students to pursue higher education, jobs, and public lives, while remaining committed to an interpretation of Islam prioritizing women's role as wives and mothers. In a world rarely seen, The Light In Her Eyes tells the story of a leader who challenges the women of her community to live according to Islam, without giving up their dreams. Shot right before the uprising in Syria erupted, the film is an exclusive look at a social movement thriving in a country controlled by a repressive regime.
- The Italian flagship San Giorgio provides rescue and recovery services in the Mediterranen sea. In this short segment they save a group of migrants from a boat in serious danger.
- DirectorKarzan KardoziStarsShndar Noradin AliAhmed Noradin AliNoradin Khalaf AliStories of Kurdish Refugees from Syria who are living in refugee camps in Kurdistan. The film was shot on location and takes place during the Syrian civil war and the ISIS attacks on Kurdistan. The story is told through the eyes of a young boy named Shndar, who has Thalassemia disease. He searches for immediate treatment while living as a refugee, leaving his home due to ethnic and religious hatred. The film depicts daily life within and outside of the refugee camp. A character study that explores themes of life, death, war, peace, and tolerance.
- DirectorAndrea KalinOliver LukacsStarsYara IbrahimMouaz MoustafaRazan Shalab al-ShamIn 2011, Syria's Bashar al-Assad answered his nation's demands for freedom by launching a brutal war against his own people. While the U.S. drew red lines for intervention, Assad ramped up the attacks, starving and killing civilians and children, including the use of chemical weapons, leveling cities, targeting journalists and blocking humanitarian aid to millions of victims. Abandoned by the outside world, individual activists stepped in to fill the roles of banned journalists, international aid agencies and feckless foreign governments. Red Lines tells the story of two such activists, who despite overwhelming obstacles, attempt to establish democratic enclaves in their devastated homeland.
- DirectorWiam BedirxanOssama MohammedStarsTia AlkerdiYara IbrahimA look at first-hand video accounts of violence in modern-day Syria as filmed by activists in the besieged city of Homs.
- DirectorMahmod AhmadRonahi EzaddinSami HosseinA documentary made by eight children from Kobani and Shengal in refugee camps on the border of Syria and Iraq, who recorded their own life experiences and stories in the wake of brutal attacks by ISIS.
- DirectorMatthew Charles HallJennifer SalcidoStarsRichard CamposJimmy CooperNemam GhafouriA group of American veterans and a Muslim heart surgeon return to the Middle East to aid Iraqi and Syrian refugees in the grasp of ISIS.
- DirectorSean McAllisterStarsTia AlkerdiYara IbrahimFilmed over 5 years, A Syrian Love Story charts an incredible odyssey to political freedom. For Raghda and Amer, it is a journey of hope, dreams and despair: for the revolution, their homeland and each other.
- DirectorTalal DerkiStarsAbdul Basset SarootA look behind the barricades of the besieged city of Homs, where for nineteen-year-old Basset and his ragtag group of comrades, the audacious hope of revolution is crumbling like the buildings around them.
- DirectorSara BroosA young muslim woman from Damaskus escapes the war in Syria and ends up in the forest in Sweden.Music is a way for her to survive and brings her back in dreams and memories to her homeland. Specially one song by the Norwegian popband A-ha. A film about the meaning of homeland and the power of music and art.
- DirectorGeorgia ScottSophia ScottLost in Lebanon gains access to unknown stories in a region that is on the fringes of hell. Spending over a year in Lebanon, this film tells the story behind the news reports and reflects the strange chaotic lives of the people living in the shadow of the Syrian war.
- DirectorAi WeiweiStarsIsraa AbboudHiba AbedRami Abu SondosHuman Flow is director and artist Ai Weiwei's detailed and heartbreaking exploration into the global refugee crisis.
- DirectorSoudade KaadanStarsReham AlkassarSawsan ArshidYara IbrahimIn Syria in 2012 a mother ventures into a war zone to find a gas cylinder so she can prepare a meal for her son. She discovers that in the besieged area the people there have lost their shadows.
- DirectorAvo KaprealianAleppo-Armenian filmmaker Avo Kaprealian shows the life of an Armenian family that has fled to Beirut during clashes in the New Village district of Aleppo, Syria, in 2015. Kaprealian documented the destruction in the district and the civilians who faced hardships. He managed to shoot footage from the balcony of his house in the wartime to show the tragedy and to underscore that the Armenian and Arab populations in Syria equally suffer as a result of the barbaric activities. He draws parallels between the sufferings of the Syrian residents and the Armenian Genocide in a unique way.
- DirectorJoe PiscatellaStarsAla'a BasatnehAous Al-MubarakBassel ShehadehFrom the Chicago suburbs, an American teenager helps run the Syrian revolution. With social media, she helps her network expose regime atrocities. But as the violence rages everyone must choose their weapon: Facebook or AK-47s.
- DirectorMichal PrzedlackiWojciech SzumowskiAleppo. Notes from the Dark shows an agony of the city, once - the largest one in Syria, now turned into rubble and abandoned of life.
- DirectorSebastian JungerNick QuestedStarsGhaith Abdul-AhadAmr Al-AzmAbu Bakr Al-BaghdadiA look at the current state of Syria amidst war and chaos in 2017, featuring stories of survival and observations by political experts from around the world.
- DirectorReber DoskyStarsDilovan KîkoThe extraordinary story of a young reporter in war-torn Kobanî.
- DirectorEgil Håskjold LarsenStarsLean KanjoBashar KanjoRazan KanjoWe follow three year old refugee Lean on her flight through Europe, for 69 minutes of a 86 days flight.
- DirectorHala AbdallahStarsFarouk Hardam-Bey
- DirectorWiam BedirxanOssama MohammedStarsTia AlkerdiYara IbrahimA look at first-hand video accounts of violence in modern-day Syria as filmed by activists in the besieged city of Homs.
- DirectorAxel Salvatori-SinzA group of young people on the eve of adult life: the boys experiment all solutions to avoid doing their military service, but one of them decides to go for it, with the hope of making an easier life; the girls think about studying, meeting up with their boyfriends abroad, marrying soon.
- DirectorMohamed MalasStarsGianna AanidEzat Abu-JabalHussein Al ShazliGhalia is inhabited by the soul of Zeina, a girl who drowned the day she was born. Haunted by Zeina's past life, Ghalia travels to Damascus to study acting and understand her present condition. She meets Fouad an aspiring filmmaker who becomes fascinated by Ghalia's duality. He takes her under his wing and helps her find a place to live in a Damascene house, now converted into a dorm inhabited by young Syrians from different regions. Within the confines of the house and its ancient courtyard, Fouad's love for Ghalia and Zeina blossoms while the tumultuous events in Syria start unfolding in the streets around them gradually encroaches on their idyllic isolation.
- DirectorLina Al AbedSyria is a vibrant melting pot of nationalities, religions and minorities, living together as one. The nation's multiplicity imbues its population with a dynamic spirit. Yet Syria remains a patriarchal society, meaning that the daily lives of Syrian citizens are defined and dominated by men. Lina Alabad's beautiful film asks the question: What, then, is the role of women in Syria? How extensive is their access to freedom and autonomy? And what effect do the limitations imposed upon them by society have on their attitudes towards sexuality and their own bodies.