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Showing 1 - 10 of 19 titles with a criteria of Subject is Syria
Birth
The story of a woman caught up in a cycle of pregnancies because of social pressure to produce a male child, and two other stories of babies, in need, or absent, in Arab countries.
Icarus Films | 2001 | 26 minutes
Dalya's Other Country
A Syrian teen attempts to balance her new life in L.A. while maintaining her Islamic traditions.
GOOD DOCS | 2017 | 58 minutes
Dolls - A Woman From Damascus
Dolls follows the daily life of a Damascene woman while the Muslim Barbie, Fulla, takes over the Arab world.
First Hand Films | 2008 | 52 minutes
Far from Bashar
A few years ago, the al-Mahamids fled Bashar al-Assad and Syria to settle in Montreal. A nuanced portrayal of a Syrian family in Canada, coping with a seemingly interminable war, thousands of miles away, that continues to affect their lives.
National Film Board of Canada | 2020 | 73 minutes
Iraq's Lost Generation
International Emmy Award-winner is an unprecedented investigation into a generation of young victims of the war against the Islamic State.
Cinétévé | 2021 | 52 minutes
The Journalist and Her Jailers
Luna Watfa, a journalist and former political prisoner living in exile in Germany, reports on the men charged with mass detention and torture in Assad’s prisons, at the world’s first trial against members of the Syrian regime, for crimes against humanity.
First Hand Films | 2022 | 83 minutes
The Light in Her Eyes
A woman is a school. Teach her and you teach a generation.
GOOD DOCS | 2012 | 87 minutes
Little Palestine, Diary of a Siege
A filmed diary of the daily life in the biggest Palestinian refugee camp – Yarmouk, in Damascus, Syria and its besieged inhabitants, who decided to face bombing, displacement and hunger with rallying, study, music, love and joy.
Lightdox | 2021 | 89 minutes
Miss Kiet's Children
In a Dutch classroom, refugee children learn alongside locals under Miss Kiet's firm but loving hand.
Icarus Films | 2016 | 113 minutes
My Maysoon
My Maysoon is a tribute to all families who have to live with a missing loved one.
First Hand Films | 2023 | 55 minutes
