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Batata

This unparalleled Peabody-winning film documents 10 years in the life of a singularly determined Syrian refugee woman

GOOD DOCS | 2022 | 126 minutes

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

ISIS, The Ghost Children

Never before have the children of criminals been punished for the crime of their parents: the children of French jihadists are a textbook case.

Cinétévé | 2023 | 70 minutes

The Journalist and Her Jailers

Luna Watfa, a journalist and former political prisoner living in exile in Germany, reports on incidents of mass detention and torture at the world’s first trial against members of Bashar al-Assad’s Syrian regime.

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