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

Действие происходит в 1925 году в Дамаске, где идет война между сирийскими повстанцами и французскими войсками. Гарри Смит — аморальный американский торговец оружием, продает оружие арабским мятежникам в Дамаске, пытающимся свергнуть французский протекторат. Однажды в ресторане он знакомится с Виолеттой, подругой шефа французской разведки полковника Феру, который хочет встретится для переговоров с лидером сирийцев Эмиром Хассаном. Феру вынуждает Смита устроить ему встречу с Хассаном.

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.

В раздираемом войной ближневосточном городе, где музыка была запрещена исламскими экстремистами, Карим, блестящий музыкант, изо всех сил пытается восстановить свое разрушенное пианино, пытаясь сбежать в Европу.

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."

Ракка, Сирия. 2015 год. Фостина осознает, что попала вместе со своим 5-летним сыном в ад. Два молодых активиста Габриель и Аднан решают помочь Сильвену, мужу Фостины. Они разрабатывают опасную операцию по эксфильтрации женщины с ребенком. Это правдивая история о войне и мире, о молодом поколении.

История датского фотографа Даниэля Рая, который был захвачен ИГИЛ в Сирии в 2013 году и находился в заложниках 398 дней.

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…

Бесстрашная Мэри Колвин — один из самых знаменитых военных корреспондентов современности. Она одинаково комфортно чувствует себя, потягивая Martini с элитой Лондона, и в противостоянии диктаторам в разгар боевого конфликта. Она бесконечно много курит, пристрастна к алкоголю и не всегда разборчива в связях. Но настойчивое желание засвидетельствовать правду заставляет ее снова и снова оказываться на передовых военных конфликтов по всему миру. Она не раз смотрела смерти прямо в глаза. Её жизнь — торнадо, её разум — минное поле, её прекрасное тело изранено. Вместе с таким же борцом за справедливость, военным фотографом Полом Конроем, в осажденном городе Сирии они приступают к самому опасному заданию в их карьере.

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.