Syria Movies

In the Summer of 2014, the Islamic State invaded Shengal, the Ezidi capital in Kurdistan (Iraq). The plan was to exterminate the ethnical/religious mi...

After losing her home and all that she's known, a widowed Turkish woman finds herself in an unexpected love affair with a young Syrian refugee in Ista...

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 film that tells a story about a media professor.

The Yazerli is the foreman who provides work to day laborers. The film’s poetic, non-narrative structure simulates the fractured thoughts of a young b...

In his debut feature film, director Muhammad explores the inexorable dissolution of a family, ironically during the planning of a wedding, the kind of...

Veteran Syrian director Hala Alabdalla returns to LFF with a moving portrait of her late friend and pioneer of Arab non-fiction cinema.

The film tells a story about love and death, friendship and betrayal, health and illness, and responding to life's pressures and various requirements....

Salem dreams of being an actor but is still working in a gas station, only his love for Nada can make things easier for him.

An introverted former broadcaster chooses to detach himself from the overwhelming situation his country is going through, but the news of his daughter...

An autobiographical film about my childhood in Syria, the war and my escape from it. My childhood was happy but unusual: my mother raised me as a girl...

Weary of the creative process, an old painter fixes a broken instrument he finds in the rubble. When his students go around looking for someone who ca...

A documentary about the life of the late Syrian director Hatem Ali, featuring his directorial vision and the difference he made in the Syrian and Arab...

The Long Night (Al Layl Al Taweel) is amongst the boldest and most unique feature length dramas in the conditional oeuvre of Syrian cinema. Four priso...

Hessan is a Syrian poet and the father of four blind daughters. He hides the war from his kids. He has been invited to attend a poetry forum, but taki...

Soliman is an idealistic young lawyer who is in love with Bassima. As he fights a bitter battle with his rivals, victory slips away from him as he hes...

In a mountain village called Kfaroun, Wadud works as a janitor in the school, where he has loving relationships with the young students. But his mothe...