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BACK (Berlinale 2023 – World premier)
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. It dives into this nightmare to examine where it stems from.
LOCUS CORDIS (Visions du réel 2023 – World premier)
Conquered by Israel in 1967, the Syrian Golan has a military border running through it, which families “cross” by shouting to their loved ones. From his European exile, anxiety-ridden Alhasan Yousef attempts to break free from his inner isolation with this exploration of the power of sound, in an effort to reconnect with his lost country from a far.
Mona (New Directors/New Films Festival 2023 - World premiere)
Mona, a Syrian mother of two children, struggles to protect her daughters from tradition and old-fashioned social issues in Belgium.
A dog A stone (Cinemed International du Cinéma Méditerranéen 2023 - World premiere)
One night in Tunis, Mariem, a sex worker, searches for Dali—a man who promised her a double mattress. As silence stretches on, unease sets in. A quiet, intimate glimpse into longing and survival on the city’s edge. A simple errand becomes a portrait of quiet solitude.
It’s only three nails!! Saturn devouring his son (Festival de plein air de Grenoble 2015 - World premiere)
Exploring the mechanism by which a man is transformed into a nail which has specific tasks, this short suggests that the contemporary Syrian is doomed by everlasting regulations that intersect with the values of social equity, injustice and tyranny.
Olive planet (International Short Film Festival Oberhausen - Word premiere)
The boy Jihad lives under his father’s rule—a lieutenant colonel in the olive military—and is expected to follow in his footsteps at the academy. But Jihad dreams of becoming a footballer. When the Uprising reaches their city of Taubez, he secretly sides with the rebels against the regime.