Ossama Mohammed

En Siria, los Youtubeurs filman y mueren todos los días. Mientras los otros matan y filman. En París, animado por mi amor incondicional por Siria, sólo puedo filmar el cielo y editar las imágenes. La tensión entre mi alejamiento en Francia, mi país y la revolución, ha surgido un encuentro. Chateando con una joven cineasta kurda, de Homs, me preguntó: "Si estuvieras en Homs con tu cámara, ¿qué filmarías?". La película cuenta la historia de ese encuentro. (FILMAFFINITY)

En Siria, los Youtubeurs filman y mueren todos los días. Mientras los otros matan y filman. En París, animado por mi amor incondicional por Siria, sólo puedo filmar el cielo y editar las imágenes. La tensión entre mi alejamiento en Francia, mi país y la revolución, ha surgido un encuentro. Chateando con una joven cineasta kurda, de Homs, me preguntó: "Si estuvieras en Homs con tu cámara, ¿qué filmarías?". La película cuenta la historia de ese encuentro. (FILMAFFINITY)

Three boys grow up in war torn Syria.

Three boys grow up in war torn Syria.

Fateh Moudarres (1922-1999) was a crucial personage in Syrian artistic and cultural life, a pioneer of contemporary painting, a literate and prolific novelist. For about forty years has transformed his atelier, located in the center of Damascus, into a place of encounter and dialogue on art. The film is a journey of love to the artist's universe, to his works composed from memories of light, colors, and the shadows of a painful existence.

Trained as an electrician, Nazih Shahbandar became fascinated with the technology behind film production and was one of the pioneers of cinema production in the 1930s and 1940s. In 1947, he set up a studio fitted with film equipment that was almost entirely of his own fabrication. He wrote scripts, built sets, and innovated new methods of sound recording and transmission. As an enthusiastic inventor, he produced and directed the first Syrian film with sound. His dream was to film and screen a 3D film. An ode to cinema, this documentary is a portrait of Shahbandar.

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.

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.

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.

The filmmaker’s directorial debut after joining the National Film Organization, this short documentary follows young children in preschool as they become exposed for the first time to notions of learning, reciting, and proper pronunciation and molded into conformity.

In a rolling area of Syria, the villagers live their everyday life, in toil and poverty. Trapped between the hardships of farming, religious and political ideologies, they barely survive. Their children are the only ones that are still full of hope. They imagine their future lives and picture themselves as doctors or engineers. But these are pipe dreams. All they can actually look forward to is farming the land with primitive tools like their parents, getting a menial job in the city or becoming brainwashed soldiers..

In a rolling area of Syria, the villagers live their everyday life, in toil and poverty. Trapped between the hardships of farming, religious and political ideologies, they barely survive. Their children are the only ones that are still full of hope. They imagine their future lives and picture themselves as doctors or engineers. But these are pipe dreams. All they can actually look forward to is farming the land with primitive tools like their parents, getting a menial job in the city or becoming brainwashed soldiers..