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.
This intimate documentary follows a group of Syrian children refugees who narrowly escape a life of ...
"With the barrel bombs falling on Ghouta, civilians sought shelter in the basements of their homes. ...
An intimate portrait of Syrian actor Fares Helou, who calls for freedom of speech, is forced out of ...
A unique interview with Tooba Gondal, the woman who groomed and lured scores of Western women to joi...
In nineteenth-century Łódź, Poland, three friends want to make a lot of money by building and invest...
For more than forty years, British journalist Robert Fisk has reported on some of the most violent c...
THE STORY WON’T DIE, from Award-winning filmmaker David Henry Gerson, is an inspiring, timely look a...
In focusing his attention on the competitors of Mr Gay Syria, director Ayse Toprak shatters the one-...
Shot by a reported “1,001 Syrians” according to the filmmakers, SILVERED WATER, SYRIA SELF-PORTRAIT ...
They are just 20 years old and are fighting against the Islamic State in the Syrian Kurdish regions....
The documentary The Silent Revolution explains the revolution involving nearly 3 million kurds livin...
A powerful investigation into the political and criminal enterprise of kidnappings as ISIS rose to p...
In this beginner-level doumbek course, Amir Naoum teaches Southwest Asian drum rhythms and doumbek t...
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...
As the forces of ISIS and Assad tear through villages and society in Syria and Northern Iraq, a grou...
A candid portrait of the women working at the Lőrinc spinning mill. As with so many of Mészáros’ sho...
When a British-born actor abandons his Hollywood career to volunteer to Join the Kurdish YPG to figh...
A disturbing portrait of four Western volunteers who risk their lives to fight ISIS alongside Kurdis...
On 12 February 2012, two journalists entered war-ravaged Syria. One of them was celebrated Sunday Ti...