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Three Palestinian men strive to escape the hardships of life in a refugee camp. Under the scorching sun, the men enlist the help of an old man, Abu Al-Khaizuran, to smuggle them in an empty water tank across the desert.
A subtle portrait of an elderly tailor who, following the arrest of his favorite son feels strongly disappointed by life and by the general “cruelty of people”. As a consequence, he has chosen to withdraw into a world of his own and keeps social interaction to an absolute minimum.
In battle-ridden Syria, a woman trying to smuggle bread into a blockaded area crosses paths with a soldier on the run.
The story of three families; the first family consists of a surgeon separated from his psychiatrist wife and lives with his daughter, Salma. The second consists of a man imprisoned for manslaughter while driving a car and leaves prison with extreme religious ideas that he inflicts on his daughter, Amal. The third consists of a husband whose wife has passed away in an accident, leaving him and his daughter, Nour
In the film, a family of moral, noble, musician, and singer friends save lives, trying to save them in the literal and metaphorical sense.
"The Boy Of The Fish" follows Noon, a young boy living in a Syrian refugee camp, who finds solace and a sense of freedom in a whale-shaped doll he names "Bahr." Set against the challenging realities of camp life, Noon’s journey is both a story of resilience and a testament to the boundless imagination of childhood. Through vivid symbolism and a unique soundscape, the film explores themes of loss, hope, and the longing for freedom amidst confinement. Shot entirely on an iPhone due to restrictions in the conflict zone, the film combines raw authenticity with poetic depth to capture the emotional landscape of a young soul navigating adversity.
(Ghawar) is a simple man who loves to do good, help everyone and deal with life simply, accidentally recognizes a person who feels a hidden sadness, so he approaches him and discovers that he and his lover are going through one of the severe crises that threaten them with separation, (Ghawar) decides to reconcile them and help them solve the emergency problems they are exposed to, will he succeed
With the housing crisis worsening and cement blocks constantly creeping up to swallow old houses with their inhabitants, a jungle of wolves that live in a fierce world lies behind the cement jungle. As a young journalist and his beautiful wife clash with what they think is the wolf of the jungle, it turns out that this wolf is only one of several wolves in a whole jungle of wolves.
Al-Qaeda (al-QIA) affiliated terrorist organizations such as al-Nusra and ISIS have laid siege to Aleppo City Prison. Syrian police and soldiers and more than 2,500 prisoners remained under siege for more than a year. Until May 22, 2014, when the Syrian Arab Army and Hezbollah broke the siege. This movie is about the legendary resistance of Syrian security forces and prisoners under siege.
Queen Nazli's daughter disappears at a young age, and the queen dies without seeing her. The heirs take advantage of the disappearance of the daughter to divide the wealth among them, but when the daughter suddenly appears, they try to stop her from having the wealth.
Stylized horror melodrama about a man who has his wife murdered so he can be with his lover only to have her ghost return to haunt him.
Therese, the mayor's wife in a Lebanese village, joyfully prepares for an overnight visit of her daughter's suitor and his parents. She excitedly shares the happy news of the engagement with pictures of her beloved brother who was killed by a Syrian bomb 20 years ago and is still bizarrely present in every corner of her house. Only when the long-awaited guests are at her doorstep, she discovers they are Syrian; this engagement will only happen over Therese's dead body!
The story follows Abu Jad who encounters the woman Nahla, who suffers from her husband's injustice after he joins the Muslim Brotherhood at the time, as she refuses to be a witness to the crimes he commits. Abu Jad clashes with him because of their different mindsets.
The film carries within it a dose of love, hope and optimism, in addition to the human relationships that connect the inhabitants of the old city with each other. I believe that relationships based on love are one of the reasons for the continuation of this city until now. The film is based on the concept of the word “love”, not love between a young man and a young woman, but rather love for things, people, place, profession and work.
Winter has approached Damascus, causing more electricity shortages in the city! In their last chance to communicate, Hazeem takes Maya on a car ride between fuel stations. Their road trip will expose a different side of the city and its inhabitants.
In his debut feature film, director Muhammad explores the inexorable dissolution of a family, ironically during the planning of a wedding, the kind of ritual that ought to bond family members together in shared joy. The film exposes the divisive dynamics of patriarchal oppression, and the terrible connections between familial and sociopolitical violence.
Intersection of the roads of twins allotted years ago.
After his marriage to Rama, Amgad becomes an outcast in his community. When he gets injured in a raid, the siege imposed on the region prevents him from getting the proper care, leaving him blind. With his wife as his only solace, Amgad and his wife decide to emigrate illegaly to seek treatment.
A traveler between two countries metaphorically named "Easternstan" and "Westernstan" loses his passport and identity papers. Stuck between the two countries he can neither cross the frontiers nor get back to where he came from. He's forced to camp in the neutral area between the two countries, facing a lot of funny situations while there. The movie satirizes the ideology of Arab unity and cooperation at the state level.
Syrian-Palestinian film The Knife (1971), based on Palestinian revolutionary Ghassan Kanafani‘s novella All That’s Left To You; an allegorical story of Palestinian attachment to land and family, and the sorrow over their loss.
After refusing to leave his home despite the horrors of the Syrian war, Yousef is forced to flee his hometown to protect his family and help his grandson fulfill his life-long dream.
It is winter in Damascus. Sana, with her eight-year-old son, is living alone while her husband works in Saudi Arabia. When Sana runs out of gas to cook or warm the house, she takes a day off to find a gas cylinder. From there begins a trip into the surroundings of Damas, where Sana finds herself brutally confronted with the effects of war.
A humble man encounters a group of hippies and develops feelings for one of them. As they get married, they cannot find a place to stay, and he resorts to a friend of his who abhors all hippies. Can their stay at his house alter his prespective?
A riveting documentary that puts a human face on the neighbors who live alongside Israel’s 1,171 kilometers of borders. The film deftly explores the political, cultural and geographical divisions that separate Israelis, Lebanese, Jordanians, Syrians, Egyptians and Palestinians from one another. Some of these borders are peaceful and quiet; others are fraught with fear. But the people who live and work near the borders—an Israeli soldier who “adopts” an Arab family, a Druze bride who leaves her family in the Golan to marry in Lebanon (the real-life story behind Riklis’s Syrian Bride), or the Lebanese merchant importing luxury goods from Israel into Southern Lebanon we will meet again in Lebanon Dream—navigate these artificial boundaries with a combination of emotional and physical effort.
A poor girl, an employee in a company and living in a conservative, popular neighborhood, her character is strong, she loved a teacher, but the story of this love does not continue because of the surrounding circumstances that surround them
Due to the great success of the original TV series from 1972, this movie was created with almost identical actors and a slightly different plot. Two friends find themselves in an unexpected conflict when one of them, an employee working in a small hotel, falls for the hotel owner, but she is in love with his friend, a painter who has been staying in the same hotel for a long time, which creates jealousy and conflict between the two friends.
مسرحية استعراضية غنائية مأخوذة عن قصه هالة والملك لفيروز. تحتفل مدينة سيلينا بعيد سنوي حيث يلبس الناس أقنعة, ويمثلون أدواراً في سهرة العيد.
Two sworn friends, who commit fraud against women and compete in hunting victims of wealthy women, decide to cooperate after one of them threatens the other to expose his plays, and they stay in a luxury hotel, in order to cast nets on a beautiful millionaire girl.
Azmi, a legal adviser refuses to sign the budget of the celebration of a project as it's twice what was spent on the project itself. He gets fired from his work, and decides to write a comprehensive report of all the daily atrocities in the hope of presenting it to higher authorities.
The events take place inside a restaurant, where a group of people meet, and strange situations happen to them, which put them in a difficult test, between moments of fear, rivalry and closeness.
Anemone is a Syrian play of purposeful and distinctive plays in the Arab world, and it is one of the socio-political plays, written by Muhammad Al-Maghout. The starring role was played by the artist Duraid Lahham and the Syrian Tishreen theatrical family, including Salma Al-Masri and a number of creative Syrian artists and artists
A love story grows between a young man and a girl, there is a second person who loves the girl, and for her he tries to hang himself, so the lovers decide to sacrifice love and happiness to save a human soul, the lover is a simple young man, while the girl is a loving female, mixed in the depths of many worlds of childhood and innocence And intelligence, the girl marries the man she does not like, and by this she has lifted the gallows from his neck, in order to wrap her around her neck.
A young woman lives alone in isolation in her home and experiences many events inside her imagination or in her dreams; however, the only real thing in her life is her little goldfish.
As far as one can remember, water has been dropping from this ceiling. One drop after another, slowly, like an ever-repeating dream that spreads all-over and changes the rhythm of life, creating a partition in-between the internal and the external. One camera for Nidal Debs, another for his hero Marwan, One camera shooting what the other sees. who makes the film?. Marwan lives in Damascus since a long time, since when refugees arrived and filled the city, since hardship was even harder. He & his friends lived those times when life was different, when dreams were bouncing in the streets. Something is happening today, the friends awaken as Ahmad passes away, a life-time of silence has passed, a life-time of frustration and loneliness must end, dreams are searching for a few minutes, for last moments, there is still a little time left. There is a new space today.
The film's events revolve around an insurance company that insures people's lives, but after a while it was noticed that many of the people whose lives were insured had disappeared, so the company decided to send two people to Beirut to uncover the truth.
Portrays a family in a remote village in the Jabal ‘Arouda region and lets its members voice their daily grievances. - Charlotte Bank
Unable to afford the dowry of his wealthy sweetheart, a young man is devastated when his beloved's father forces her to marry another, leaving him to convince his scientist brother to use his knowledge to shrink him. As he becomes pint-sized, he turns the life of his beloved's husband into hell.
A person trying to escape from his dream by carrying out the demands of the intellectual organization that has entered his mind
The story is about a young man with a relatively large nose, who is ashamed of his enlargement relative to the normal size of the nose, so he tries hard to get rid of this defect in different ways. In other words, "a messenger of love" to send him oral oral messages, the reason that paves the way for the birth of a love story between the girl and the middle man resulting in many problems between the people of the village.
When a simple worker who works for a service that manages houses and mansions meets a rich guy who is trying to rent his apartment, he takes advantage of the empty apartment to have a romantic evening with his wife. But the couple is surprised when the apartment's owner arrives to find them inside.
A wealthy young man lives a frivolous lifestyle, always in and out of relationships. But after a traumatic event, he starts to rethink his life. He takes the identity of a poor worker to see what life is like in someone else’s shoes and falls in love with a girl who doesn't know who he is.
On the front line of the Syrian war, a 30-year-old commander leads her female battalion to retake an ISIS-controlled city and emerges severely wounded, forcing her to redefine herself in this empowering tale of emancipation and freedom.
The film tells the story of Sabria (the protagonist), who suffers from the male mentality in society during the period from the days of the Great Syrian Revolution until the 1940s, and depicts the Syrian woman’s attempt to achieve her freedom and equality with men.
A social-political comedy play, considered one of the most legendary critical and purposeful Arab comedies.
During the Syrian war, an elderly man falls into a long coma, caught between life and death. Meanwhile, his young son undergoes an exhausting struggle between his thoughts and emotions, torn between his obligations toward his father and his desire to step into the life he yearns for.
Manal is forced to leave Syria. Once in safety, she plans to send for her children. As she learns that she must wait three years, Manal contacts 'an agent' to reunite the family. But first they must cross the sea...
The film is about a dreamy girl who belongs to a middle class family. She is dominated by her father who is characterized by severe authority, goodness and tenderness, by conservatism and liberalism. The family lives in a heterogeneous quarter with contradictions among its inhabitants.
Based on the famous story, “Sa’ay El Bareed La Yaduq Babek Maratein” (The Postman Doesn’t Knock Twice), an adventurer escapes from danger by hiding in a small motel along the road. The motel is owned by an old, miserly man who is married to a young beautiful woman. Soon the fugitive and the wife develop a passionate relationship and plot to kill her husband. However, the old man’s son returns to spend the weekend in the motel and the plan goes off the rails.
Untold stories from the frontlines of the 'Deterring Aggression' battle. This documentary chronicles the ten decisive days preceding the operation, casting light on a political milestone that catalyzed the liberation of Syrian lands and signaled the dawn of a new era of hope.
The Ezidîs (Yazidis) in Kurdistan have been the victims of massacres numerous times. This documentary follows their bards, the dengbêj, and examines how their songs tell stories of love and genocide.
After her father dies, a girl lives in her uncle's house and suffers from the oppression of her uncle's wife, who turns her into a maid and decides to marry her off to an older man, so she runs away from him and is picked up by a woman, who turns her into a prostitute.
A married couple are leading a monotonous life after the husband's retirement and the son's migration. Suddenly, a teenage young man storms into their home.
An oneiric film poem about a murder in occupied Palestine, in which Qais Al-Zubaidi used drawing, poetry, music, phonograph and pantomime with his technical virtuosity and formal expressionism. Featuring poetry from Mahmoud Darwish, Samih al-Qasim, and Tawfiq Ziad.
Tayseer, a conservative man, has grown with a particular hang-up caused by his sister's marriage without his consent. When a man proposes to his daughter Kawthar, Tayseer vehemently opposes their relationship, even if the two are deeply in love. Is it too late to rid him of his hang-up?
The fiery leader of the Great Syrian Revolt of 1925 fights to keep the revolution alive in exile. When the struggle for independence comes at the expense of his displaced family's safety, he must decide to sacrifice either his family or his country. The film explores the themes of bravery, loyalty and patriotism, as well as the difficult choices one must make when protecting their family.
Does the Arab woman have the right to choose, or is she considered by men as something that must be protected and concealed? These are the questions raised by the film Chiffon.
On the eve of the Israeli attack on Egypt in 1956, Israel declares martial law in all the occupied Arab territories without any previous notice. When the villagers of Kafr Kassem returned home from the fields, they were butchered and killed in what is known today as the massacre of “Kafr Kassem”.