syrian films

Three political prisoners are released from a Syrian prison after a long time. Their families prepare a celebration. Can they adjust to freedom? Meanwhile, their cell-mate, a stage actor, starts to develop a high fever.

Social drama movie about a family whose mother is dead and the father remains the only breadwinner and the responsible of upbringing his four children.

Ghawar is in love with Fatoum who owns a lodging house but she wants to marry the new tenant Hosni. Now Ghawar with the help of his friend Abu Antar has to find a way to get rid of his rival and marry Fatoum.

A Jewish woman tries to find her Christian lover who was lost in the city of different religions and cultures.

A traveler between two countries metaphorically named "Easternstan" and "Westernstan" loses his passport and identity papers.

Set in the north of Syria, a village idiot with an enormous nose (Ismail) falls in love with his beautiful neighbor (Salma), thus he sends his handsome friend - who also falls in love with her- to deliver her oral love letters.

The film tells about a poor citizen whose wife died and he has five children, three of whom love to sing and play and work at parties, one who is studying and loves a rich girl, and the other works with his father in selling watermelon. They are surprised by their father's relationship with the maid who works for them, so things get worse and some of them object.

The film's story revolves around a child who has psychological problems (Adel), and the head of the family is disabled due to a severe injury he suffered in the Palestine War, so he became a seat and was unable even to perform his marital duties so that the wife continues to suffer from a double disadvantage, as she began bearing the burdens of raising her children, and assumed responsibility for the home In her entire role, she also plays the role of the father, and brings out unfamiliar forms of cruelty coated with a kind of maternal love that she cannot curb while shaving her son who sucks his thumb, plucking his hair, and her daughter (Amira) is punished by shaving her head also because she colluded with her brother. It's a story of innocence and friendship between Adel and Saeed who falls in love with his best friend's sister.

A Syrian director makes a movie about his childhood.

A young boy's father goes off to war, leaving the family in the midst of the inevitable changes of regional and internal conflicts of 1940s Syria.

A documentary about the impact of newly introduced political reforms on a rural village in Syria - a place plagued with tribalism, ignorance and evil.

A widow called Hayat is forced to move with her two children (Deeb) and (Omar) to reside with her father in Damascus, Deeb is forced to work during his studies so that the mother does not have to need anything from her father.

Ayman, Syrian refugee in Lebanon, teaching his wife how to drive his car, the only thing left for him from his country. The lesson takes a wrong turn into madness and nostalgia.

Thirty-year-old Imane lives with her husband and three children in a modest house across from the historic citadel of Aleppo. She suddenly realizes that it's been ten years that she's been married, ten years during which she's done little more than take care of her husband and their three children. Adnan is a simple, hard-working man from a good Aleppo family. And he is a model worker in the civil service. But his job doesn't pay enough to support his family so he moonlights as a taxi driver. This doesn't leave any time for his family or his wife. Imane takes to listening to the songs of Oum Kalsoum and develops a great passion for the legendary Egyptian singer. She tries singing herself, first timidly, then with more assurance and pleasure. Her greatest joy is to comb the bazaar for cassettes of Oum Kalsoum. She feels a surge of love. For her husband, for his children, for his parents, for his brothers. Her husband is thrilled by the transformation of his wife and encourages her new passion. His brothers, however, think she's gone mad: she listens to music, sings and seems consumed by passion. Could she be seeing another man? They decide to follow her...

OR THE FIRST TIME I HEARD OF ISRAEL. A man recollects the conflict in the middle east through his personal memory. In this short documentary, Amiralay reflects on the first time he heard of Israel. Through recorded conversations with filmmaker Mohamed Malas, both Amiralay and Malas share their own unique stories and experiences about Israel and Israeli occupation. In the company of fellow Syrian filmmaker Mohammad Malas, the ground-breaking director Omar Amiralay revisits the ruins of the destroyed Golan village of Quneytra, occupied by Israel and then abandoned following the 1973 war.

Mariam " Lina Hawarneh ": Young newly wed woman can't forget her true love to Samer " Bassam Kussa ", with too much memories that get the jealous husband getting a gun shooting Samer