Director Junge was commissioned by the GDR in the country for the first time in the summer of 1970; his film In Syria auf Montage accompanies German engineers who train workers in the Homs textile factory. Shortly after filming ended, Hafez al-Assad put himself under the dictator. Twenty years later emerged ... the father stayed in the war over a youth club with Syrian orphans in Bad Saarow, whose fathers had died in the Lebanon war and accompanied them to Syria, where they were housed in separate, elite "schools of martyr children". Multi-faceted documents that oscillate between peaceful and tense, hopeful and unsettled.

Push-ups to the rhythm of a metronome, a meter counting backward from 100; three words are shouted t...

Before Aleppo's fall, Syrian/Norwegian director Nizam Najar explores the inside of the war. To him o...

The story of iconic Syrian peace activist Ghiyath Matar whose brutal torture and death at the age of...

An intimate portrait of Syrian actor Fares Helou, who calls for freedom of speech, is forced out of ...

In August of 1914, amidst the public ecstasy surrounding the impending war, Hans Gastl, the young so...

Documentary following a team of technicians in Italy as they reconstruct a number of historic Middle...

Like a visual elegy, My Memory Is Full of Ghosts explores a reality caught between past, present and...

In nineteenth-century Łódź, Poland, three friends want to make a lot of money by building and invest...

Shot by a reported “1,001 Syrians” according to the filmmakers, SILVERED WATER, SYRIA SELF-PORTRAIT ...

When artist Janet Biehl fell in love with radical American philosopher Murray Bookchin in the 1980s ...

The first documentary to present an unabashed critique of the impact of the Syrian government’s agri...

A candid portrait of the women working at the Lőrinc spinning mill. As with so many of Mészáros’ sho...

In 2012 Dalya and her mother Rudayna fled Aleppo for Los Angeles as war took over. Months before, Ru...

In the most dangerous country in the world for journalists, Newsweek Middle East editor, Janine di G...

Talal Derki returns to his homeland where he gains the trust of a radical Islamist family, sharing t...

A camera crew follows a Jihadi group for a week in Syria

A witness testimonial by the Syrian people with regards to what has happened to their country. It's ...