Filmed in the Palestinian refugee camps of Sabra and Shatila, Lebanon, shortly before the infamous massacre of 1982, this Syrian documentary's principle reference is dreams, and not lived reality. It plays in this way on a double register, whereby women, children, the elderly, and combatants each recall the reality of their everyday, transposed eerily into their dreams, nightma...
A group of young Syrian women create a play that highlights the violence of patriarchy within their society.
Farah, Eliana, Inana, Souhir and Grace live in war-torn Damascus. Together, they have decided to devise a play that explores the corrosiveness of patriarchal violence – gathering anonymous testimonies from Syrian woman across a variety of social groups and generations. T...
Syrian documentarian Omar Amiralay was a beloved figure in the Arab film world, celebrated for his activism and political cinema, although it meant that his films were frequently banned. His untimely death in 2011, mere weeks before the uprising against the Assad regime swept across Syria, remains a great sadness. Alabdalla returns to interviews she filmed with him over ten yea...