Short Sentimental Film Wessam visits his hometown Damascus after two years of leaving to study in Germany. During his short visit, he faces new boundaries between him and his old friends, based on the fact that he left Syria on early stages of the Syrian Revolution. In Damascus, his ex-girlfriend is shooting an experimental documentary…
Sinking Damascus. Father and son face each other. Their conversation transcends the themes of everyday life and their personal limits – and becomes a dialogue between two generations. The father has suffered the defeats of the twentieth century, the son experiences the current defeat after he found himself, a freedom activist, held captive in wars…
Gangrene The piece plays in Damascus of the past years. A family leaves home because of war to move to a less dangerous suburb of Damascus. During their move, they encounter difficulties of a material and idealistic nature. The father loses his job, so the mother becomes the sole provider of husband and son. She…
At first glance the viewer may think that the pictorial world of the painter and graphic artist Kamiran Khalil is a direct reaction to and a processing of war experience in his home country Syria. And they are. But they are more. Khalil’s visions examine with his own verve of creation and a sensitive philosophical…
