“Our struggle has been an unarmed, daily struggle”
27 March 2025
From Harasta to Aleppo, from Homs to Damascus, Syrian women have been always active during the whole Revolution. They did not take part in the latest military offensive that led...
A queer refugee in Neukölln
08 April 2022
Omar fled Syria in 2015 and today lives openly queer in Berlin. This is his/her story of self-discovery.
Remembering my friend Bassel Shahadeh
28 May 2021
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...
Within the margins, and breaking free: Syrian cinema
23 January 2021
“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...
In search of the best picture in the world
22 January 2021
That picture was the only boat that carried me to the past and reconnected me, sensually rather than metaphorically, with what was taken away from me. The picture from my...
