Bitter Sweetness (2024)

Amal lives in a bomb shelter with her sisters in a wartime Syria. Food and water is scarce. One day when Amal is out playing, she finds a piece of gold. Suddenly other people claims the gold belongs to them.

Elisabeth lives a quiet live in the Belgian countryside with her young adult daughter Elodie. After the divorce from her husband Elisabeth took care of her daughter on her own. When Elodie disappears over night and Elisabeth discovers that she travelled to Syria to join the Islamic State, she begins her journey to find her daughter.

In the film that marks the emergence of auteur cinema in Syria, a young widow and her children are forced to move to Damascus, where the boys come of age against the backdrop of the military coups that punctuated the 1950s.

A Hindu woman elopes with her Muslim lover, moving with him to Syria. Eventually separated by war, she cares for their handicapped child on her own

A mysterious American gets mixed up with gunrunners in Syria.

In battle-ridden Syria, a woman trying to smuggle bread into a blockaded area crosses paths with a soldier on the run.

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 a war-torn Middle Eastern city where music has been banned by Islamic extremists, Karim, a brilliant musician, struggles to rebuild his destroyed piano while trying to escape to Europe.

Osama said, "I often took walks with Luna. We roamed around Damascus, where nothing could compare to the smell of bread and jasmine in the morning. Sometimes, Luna would tell me stories about wonderful cities."

Paris, spring 2015. Faustine travels to Syria with her little son to join ISIS; but, once in Raqqa, she soon realizes the hell she is gotten herself into. Her husband Sylvain quickly understands that the French government is powerless to help him, so he plans with some friends a high-risk extraction operation to get his family back.

HELD FOR RANSOM tells the true story of Danish photojournalist Daniel Rye who was held hostage for 398 days in Syria by the terror organization ISIS along with several other foreign nationals including the American journalist, James Foley. The film follows Daniel’s struggle to survive in captivity, his friendship with James, and the nightmare of the Rye family back home in Denmark as they try to do everything in their power to save their son. At the center of this crisis, we find hostage negotiator, Arthur, who plays a pivotal role in securing Daniel’s release.

Lori, a Syrian-Armenian girl living in Armenia, believes her father is taking her on a summer trip. When she learns that her family is really leaving Armenia after already fleeing the war in Syria, she tries whatever she can to stay in a place that has great meaning for her.

Aporia tells the story of someone caught in the midst of cultural, religious, ethnic, and national conflict. After fleeing Syria, Haleem hopes to bring his wife and children and settle in Germany. During a layover in South Korea, he is found in possession of a fake passport. Haleem then finds himself struggling in an unfamiliar country, taking illegal and illicit work in the hopes of being reunited with his family…

One of the most celebrated war correspondents of our time, Marie Colvin is an utterly fearless and rebellious spirit, driven to the frontlines of conflicts across the globe to give voice to the voiceless.

Ahmed flees his war-torn homeland of Syria and faces discrimination in Iraq. The people of the new society he joins make it impossible for him to move on and begin a new life.

An exploration the Arab-Israeli conflict as seen through the memories of a Syrian family as they return to the newly retaken city of Quneitra.

Based on a novel by renowned Syrian author Haidar Haidar, Nabil Maleh's first full-length feature is set in Syria in the early 1900s. it is the suspense-filled story of Al Fahd (Adib Qaddoura), an ordinary peasant who becomes a lone rebel, fighting bravely against the colonial government that has usurped his land and subjects him to imprisonment, torture and insult at the hands of the gendarmes. But he declines the help that might have enabled him to overthrow the oppressors for good. The Leopard won first prize at the Locarno Film Festival in 1972 and in 2005 was selected by the Pusan International Film Festival as one of the greatest masterpieces in Asian cinema history.

Syria, 1967, rumors of war. Abu Kamel, a peasant who farms tomatoes near Latakia, bullies his family. One by one, each rebels against him or finds a route to break away.