المؤسسة العامة للسينما

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.

The film follows three Palestinian refugees brought together by dispossession and hope for a better future. Hiding in the tank of a truck, the men attempt to make their way across the border into Kuwait, the "promised land."

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 boy who is forced to leave school and find work on the docks. Using minimal dialogue but evocative music and sounds, separate vignettes introduce characters the boy encounters in a single workday. The filmmaker explores the child’s vivid imaginary world while tangibly conveying the physical harshness and repressed sexuality of a life spent in poverty and manual labor. Based on a novella by Hanna Mina.

The film is about a dreamy girl who belongs to a middle class family. She is dominated by her father who is characterized by severe authority, goodness and tenderness, by conservatism and liberalism. The family lives in a heterogeneous quarter with contradictions among its inhabitants.

In the destroyed city of Quneitra is the grave of a resistance fighter for Palestine. His son, the director, tries to restore the dead man's history by mixing echoes of his mother's memory and his desire to give his father a more honorable death. Through the daily lives, dreams, fears, and hopes of its citizens, Malas chronicles his hometown Quneitra in the Golan Heights between 1936, the year of the first revolts against the British and Zionists in Palestine until the year of the city's destruction. He seeks to exorcise a feeling of shame and humiliation that long accompanied the image of his father and also his town, occupied by Israelis in 1967.

A close look at the modern life details of people representing different social strata, from a street vendor to a political intellectual, touching upon the story of two lovers whose life paths have faltered, as well as a crane operator who doesn't want to leave his homeland despite the circumstances.

Three Palestinian men strive to escape the hardships of life in a refugee camp. Under the scorching sun, the men enlist the help of an old man, Abu Al-Khaizuran, to smuggle them in an empty water tank across the desert.

Based on one of the most famous novels by Syrian novelist Khairy Al-Zahabi, the film tells the story of a woman from a Syrian family who is married but always treated badly by her husband, and is good at embroidery.

Sabah is a creative writer who goes through the complexities of life in a city that pushes its children from its center to its outskirts where expatriates reside. He suffers from financial hardships, while a love story grows between a boy and a girl who meet at night in the rain.

The fate of three women in wartime is united, each of whom is called Maryam and living at different times facing the war in its moral, social and brutal aspects, but each of them will not lose a life

Azmi, a legal adviser refuses to sign the budget of the celebration of a project as it's twice what was spent on the project itself. He gets fired from his work, and decides to write a comprehensive report of all the daily atrocities in the hope of presenting it to higher authorities.

The film tells the story of Sabria (the protagonist), who suffers from the male mentality in society during the period from the days of the Great Syrian Revolution until the 1940s, and depicts the Syrian woman’s attempt to achieve her freedom and equality with men.

As an elderly man on his deathbed looks to give his name to one of his newborn grandsons, he's unable to acknowledge any of them. The three boys grow up with no name in the Syrian mountains, as they struggle to survive in a war-torn country.

The autobiography of a film director who grows up in a small town then leaves for the city to finish his studies. When he became famous, he decided to make a film about his upbringing in the village based on his childhood memories.

After a Syrian man who has lived for a long time in the West learns that he is ill, he resolves to return to his homeland; however, he returns to find that strangers have taken over his home, and due to the chaos of war, his fate becomes intertwined with theirs.

The story revolves around a woman who faces a lot of troubles and ambitions, and she lives in chaos, emotional and great life due to the circumstances of her sick son and her daughter who becomes the focus of attention of one of the influential people, so that the struggle begins in her life between the desire to preserve the life of her son, and the happiness of her daughter threatened, through her simple human relations with surrounding characters With her in her village.

Adel is from an aristocratic family that lives in Syria during the French occupation, his culture forced him to rebel against his family, and descend to the bottom of society wishing to change his life, he got to know this society and loved him, but he became torn between his culture, and his aristocratic origins.

Dib moves with his younger brother and their mother from his home town of Quneitra to Damascus after the death of his father. The children’s grandfather, who was known for his tyranny, reluctantly agrees to shelter the grieving family, and tries to force his daughter to marry again. The magic of the city of Damascus takes over the conscience. Dib, whose main concern has become discovering all the secrets of this city, is driven by his heart full of dreams, but he sees nothing in his life except humiliation and cruelty. The fragrance of childhood dies in Dib's heart, as he grows up in light of the political fluctuations that prevailed in the fifties (the end of the military dictatorship in Syria at that time, the nationalization of the Suez Canal, Nasser’s rise to power in Cairo, and Egyptian-Syrian unity in 1958), so that his rosy childhood dreams were shattered on the rocks of cruelty and violence. The city's dreams turn into a nightmare..

In the late 30s, the family of the sailor Salah Hazoum arrives in the city of Latakia coming from Alexandria. His son Saeed searches for him in vain after he hears many rumors about his disappearance. The son decides to become a sailor like his father and works on a boat with Captain Abdosh. Based on the novel 'Dagal' by Hanna Mina.

A newly graduated young doctor has hopes of making his way steadily in his country, or of traveling to another country in order to achieve his dreams. In the village, he wakes up from his rosy dream he lived before he traveled to a harsh reality, after he is accused of murder.