Best Syrian movies

Filmed over 3 years in Homs, accompanying 2 outstanding young men from the time they were only dreaming of freedom to the time when they are forced to change course. Basset, the 19yo national football team goalkeeper, who became an outspoken demonstration leader in the city, then an icon revolution singer, till he becomes a fighter... a militia leader. Ossama, his 24yo friend, renowned citizen journalist, cynical pacifist... as his views are forced to change, until he is detained by army secret service. It is the story of a city, of which the world have heard a lot, but never really got closer than news, never really had the chance to experience how a war erupted. a modern times epic of youth in war time.

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." A masterful adaptation of Ghassan Kanafani's novel Men Under the Sun, The Dupes is also one of the first Arab films to address the Palestinian predicament.

The film sheds light on the kidnapping of Syrian women who were subjected to torture during the years of the Syrian civil war, and the suffering they had to endure along with their families.

Interviews with three Syrian women who live in exile.

Saeed is a young man sees his life in Black and White, but there is a few things can bring back the Colors to his life, and he wants to feel something through them.

Zilan, a young woman, returns to her home town looking for traces of her dead brother, killed by ISIS. But her town is not what it used to be: social and political tensions have escalated into a state of war. The people have risen up to demand their political autonomy and the police and army repress them with brutal force. But the city’s resistance will go on for more than 100 days and Zilan will not remain a passive witness. Based on the diaries of those who died fighting and the testimony of survivors, who are the protagonists of the film, Çelik's first feature explores concepts such as hope, friendship, sacrifice and loss in the struggle for freedom of a group of young people.

A traveler between two countries metaphorically named "Easternstan" and "Westernstan" loses his passport and identity papers. Stuck between the two countries he can neither cross the frontiers nor get back to where he came from. He's forced to camp in the neutral area between the two countries, facing a lot of funny situations while there. The movie satirizes the ideology of Arab unity and cooperation at the state level.

A tour guide is caught between two men: the first is a powerful and influential businessman, who is secretly married to the tour guide, and demands that she abort the fetus she is carrying from him. As for the other, she meets him on one of her tours and falls in love with him, as he appears to her to be a light-hearted, helpful and humble man.

Based on the idea of ​​reincarnation, the work tells the story of Ahed, a young man who works in the pottery industry and lives in a village in northern Palestine with his family, where he is haunted by obsessions and memories from another life in another place.

Suffocated by a cruel, inescapable siege imposed by the Syrian regime and after five months of incessant and senseless shelling, a group of children living in Aleppo start painting the walls of their city. It is an act of protest as well as resistance: a small act that dares to dream of bringing back life in a place that has been humiliated by bombs and bullets, while international powers were watching without doing anything to save lives. Thus, the colours sowed throughout the devastated city sprout small beacons of hope for the thousands of people trapped in Aleppo, smothered by the ruins and rubbles. So, while the Russian forces cut off supplies of food and medicine, more than 280,000 civilians languishing without a home or a shelter try to find new hope and reasons to go on. What happened in Aleppo will never be forgotten.

“Binxet – Under the border” is a journey between life and death, dignity and pain, struggle and freedom. It takes place along the 911 km of the turkish-Syrian border. On the one hand the ISIS, in the other Erdogan’s Turkey. In the middle the borders and one hope. This hope is called Rojava, only one point on the chart of a troubled region, a region of resistance and an example of grassroots democracy that speaks about gender equality, self-determination of peoples and peaceful coexistence.

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.

Despite being outnumbered and outgunned, a female Kurdish fighter guides her fellow fighters in the resistance to defend their city, Kobanê, from the deadly threat of ISIS. A real story of war, sacrifice, love and hope that kept the whole world on tenterhooks.

Salem dreams of being an actor but is still working in a gas station, only his love for Nada can make things easier for him.

A social-political comedy play, considered one of the most legendary critical and purposeful Arab comedies.

A Syrian radio DJ documents the experiences of herself and her friends as their dreams of overthrowing their elected government give way to the grim realities of sectarian death squads and extremism.

An introverted former broadcaster chooses to detach himself from the overwhelming situation his country is going through, but the news of his daughter getting besieged in Aleppo break through his shield. A portrayal of the fragile and voluntary detachment as a coping mechanism with war and trauma.

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..

A young aspiring actress in Syria discovers she has been inhabited by the soul of a woman who died on the day she was born.

When her father dies and leaves her alone, a young and beautiful girl finds solace in dancing and playing karate. Her loneliness, however, tempts men to approach her, including her immoral cousin whom she rejects, but he wouldn’t take no for an answer.

The film tells the story of a robbery in which a girl suffers a conflict situation about the form of the victim that she wants to be, but in another context it is a form of contrast between past and future that highlights the effect of the act of theft

Al-Qaeda (al-QIA) affiliated terrorist organizations such as al-Nusra and ISIS have laid siege to Aleppo City Prison. Syrian police and soldiers and more than 2,500 prisoners remained under siege for more than a year. Until May 22, 2014, when the Syrian Arab Army and Hezbollah broke the siege. This movie is about the legendary resistance of Syrian security forces and prisoners under siege.

As far as one can remember, water has been dropping from this ceiling. One drop after another, slowly, like an ever-repeating dream that spreads all-over and changes the rhythm of life, creating a partition in-between the internal and the external. One camera for Nidal Debs, another for his hero Marwan, One camera shooting what the other sees. who makes the film?. Marwan lives in Damascus since a long time, since when refugees arrived and filled the city, since hardship was even harder. He & his friends lived those times when life was different, when dreams were bouncing in the streets. Something is happening today, the friends awaken as Ahmad passes away, a life-time of silence has passed, a life-time of frustration and loneliness must end, dreams are searching for a few minutes, for last moments, there is still a little time left. There is a new space today.

A Jewish Syrian girl sets for departure from home city Damascus, but reverses her decision because her father discloses a secret that was kept for years. The secret being about a Lover who was thought to be dead. The girl reveals the mysteries of the past in search of another side of magical Damascus, hence falling in love with a Christian man who disappears in Lebanon’s civil war. She finds herself facing a difficult choice, but the city itself will keep the door of love and choices wide open to infinite possibilities.

The film revolves around the subject of Syrian-Lebanese relations, starting from the period of the Syrian military presence in Lebanon, and up until after the Syrian army left, through a love story between a Lebanese woman who came to Damascus to work as a bank manager, and a young Syrian man who works as a communications manager there. The story between them begins with tension, but it quickly turns into a love story, although the tension between them does not completely disappear with falling in love, as the two characters are still living in the past.

مسرحية استعراضية غنائية مأخوذة عن قصه هالة والملك لفيروز. تحتفل مدينة سيلينا بعيد سنوي حيث يلبس الناس أقنعة, ويمثلون أدواراً في سهرة العيد.

During the war, lots of people left Syria towards land of refuge fearing death except Joseph and his company. Meanwhile, his grandchild, Ziyad’s dreams grew but strayed. Together, they head towards a new country and distorted identity.

The documentary is telling the Rojava Revolution, with stories of Assyrian, Kurdish, Arabic people. This people are subjected to the ISIS attacks, on the other hand they are trying to build a communal system like democratic autonomy. This struggle is not easy in a region like Syria, where the war continues and showing the effects on people’s life.

In a rolling area of Syria, the villagers live their everyday life, in toil and poverty. Trapped between the hardships of farming, religious and political ideologies, they barely survive. Their children are the only ones that are still full of hope. They imagine their future lives and picture themselves as doctors or engineers. But these are pipe dreams. All they can actually look forward to is farming the land with primitive tools like their parents, getting a menial job in the city or becoming brainwashed soldiers..

In his debut feature film, director Muhammad explores the inexorable dissolution of a family, ironically during the planning of a wedding, the kind of ritual that ought to bond family members together in shared joy. The film exposes the divisive dynamics of patriarchal oppression, and the terrible connections between familial and sociopolitical violence.

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 first documentary to present an unabashed critique of the impact of the Syrian government’s agricultural and land reforms, Everyday Life in a Syrian Village delivers a powerful jab at the state’s conceit of redressing social and economic inequities.

In a context of suspense, events take place during the filming of a movie, where the main actor is found murdered, and when the investigator is called and finds in front of him three confessions of his killing, he must search for the real killer.

Like a visual elegy, My Memory Is Full of Ghosts explores a reality caught between past, present and future in Homs, Syria. Behind the self-portrait of an exsanguinated population in search of normality emerge memories of the city, haunted by destruction, disfigurement and loss. A deeply moving film, a painful echo of the absurdity of war and the strength of human beings.

The film tells the story of four children living with their father on the Golan front in 1958, who live in constant weariness because of the war. After the military escalation on the front occurs, they are forced to return to their mother in her village.

In battle-ridden Syria, a woman trying to smuggle bread into a blockaded area crosses paths with a soldier on the run.

The film is based on the script of the film "The Diamond Dove" by the writer "Diana Al-Fares".

The film tells a story about love and death, friendship and betrayal, health and illness, and responding to life's pressures and various requirements. It is a story about Amjad (Qusai Khouli) and Laila (Nadine), who fell in love and got married, but fate surprises them with a difficult life circumstance and puts them in a more difficult test, so one of them surrenders to the cruelty of the sudden circumstance, and there is marital infidelity and great regret, but after it is too late for this regret and all that remains is what reminds them of the beautiful, painful past.

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.

A man is late for work. He needs his cheese string.

The film examines the eternal conflict between good and evil. Two main characters try to keep their home town on the path to democracy. Crushed between two evils they make the greatest sacrifice.

A Syrian political comedy play that takes place before and after the October 1973 war in Syria and reflects the victory on the Syrian person

Interviews with Palestinians living in Lebanese refugee camps, some of it shot in Sabra and Shatila before the massacre.

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.

Set in Syria in the early 1900s. A peasant has his land taken from him by the authorities. He gets imprisoned and beaten by the gendarme, but manages to escape to the mountains where starts a bloody struggle for revolution.

In a desolate, conservative region of Syria a woman falls in love and runs away with a school teacher while her husband is away working in the city.

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

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.

The story is about a young man with a relatively large nose, who is ashamed of his enlargement relative to the normal size of the nose, so he tries hard to get rid of this defect in different ways. In other words, "a messenger of love" to send him oral oral messages, the reason that paves the way for the birth of a love story between the girl and the middle man resulting in many problems between the people of the village.

A love story grows between a young man and a girl, there is a second person who loves the girl, and for her he tries to hang himself, so the lovers decide to sacrifice love and happiness to save a human soul, the lover is a simple young man, while the girl is a loving female, mixed in the depths of many worlds of childhood and innocence And intelligence, the girl marries the man she does not like, and by this she has lifted the gallows from his neck, in order to wrap her around her neck.

The film tells the story of a lonely man with a chronic hunger to rejoice and communicate with others, holding a party for his friends but ...

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.

The film tells of a poor citizen whose wife died and has five children, three love to sing and play and work in parties, one learns and loves a rich girl, and the other works with his father in selling watermelon, they are surprised by the relationship of their father to the maid who works with them, things go wrong and some object

Based on a true story that was narrated over 1400 years ago, The Jar deals with the epic struggle between good and evil, and highlights the ethics and virtues every family values. Set in a Middle Eastern village, the story of the jar begins when a poor yet virtuous family discovers a lost treasure buried in a jar under their new home. In their quest to return the jar to its rightful owner, a jealous and greedy neighbor who has his eye on the jar foils their attempts. A fascinating adventure ensues as the towns-folk try to solve the mystery of the jar. There are also two mice who steal the family's eggs, but are defeated by the family's pet squirrel.

A film that tells a story about a media professor.

Meyar Al Roumi returns to his native Damascus, eager to start making films, but he is censored. He draws inspiration from it to paint a portrait of the Syrian filmmakers most affected by censorship.

The confusion, fatigue, and exhaustion of a twenty-year-old girl were evident when she recently moved into a new, empty house to live in.

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.

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.

Some university students change their views on sex after hearing a lecture on the blind Syrian philosopher Al-Maarri. He gets his way with one of them after sneaking what I imagine is rufees into one of their drinks which has disastrous consequences. After going to some wild bellydancing parties they are ensnared by a polyester-clad drug-dealer and womanizer/rapist. The victims' friends plan to avenge her with the help of the local police. Includes numerous musical numbers and belly dancing scenes.

Laila is a smart woman who managed to make her way among businessmen outside her country. When she returns to her country with the aim of convincing her only daughter, an engineer, to travel with her, the daughter refuses. The businesswoman also discovers that her partners in the suspicious deals are conspiring against her, so she threatens them with the illegal documents in court. After a long struggle, she decides to live with her daughter and liquidate her business relations, but it is too late!

After the 1967 setback, Abu Ramzi is displaced from the Golan with his family, and he is tired in order to secure a livelihood and his wife who works in sewing helps him. As for the son Ramzi, he dreams of riches quickly and in the easiest way, which drives him to collide with his father, who dreams of a roof that shelter him through halal earnings.

Screenwriter Goes to the hospital for medical examinations, but he heard strange news. This hospital has seven floors, whenever it is moved to the bottom floor, becomes close to death

Tayseer, a conservative man, has grown with a particular hang-up caused by his sister's marriage without his consent. When a man proposes to his daughter Kawthar, Tayseer vehemently opposes their relationship, even if the two are deeply in love. Is it too late to rid him of his hang-up?