"I cannot work on a project unless I’m fully engaged with it. My thoughts, my body, my feelings, my knowledge and memory—it all revolves around the work that I do."

"How do you express the loss of your country, your people, of seeing all this blood? You feel like you’re no longer yourself, that you lost a part of yourself,...

Bassel’s family and friends handed me a great responsibility when they asked me to complete his film, a responsibility that will continue to stay with me, like a mountain on...

“You are trapped within that room that represents your memory, and all your personal story. It is all you have, your world. But after that, it starts shrinking, and that...

It is our right as Syrians to be seen by the world and not judged according to conflicting news briefs.

What are some of Syrian filmmakers' concerns today? How do they produce their films? And what challenges do they face? Here, Syrian filmmakers Dalia al-Kury, Iyad alJaroud and Layla Abyad...