In Exactly this Moment Based on actual events – Alec and Karim are two characters looking for a past that is said to be buried. But they are characters who are condemned to remember, interpret, and resist forgetting. They turn memory into a game that is constantly repeated in a country whose collective memory has…
Eid Banquet The play tells the story of Eid, a history teacher with wife, son and daughter who lives in a world in which reality and madness are in direct conflict: the woman prevents him from relieving himself in the toilet, because in her opinion, the toilet is not ment for faeces, but for the…
The Suitcase The suitcase is a tragicomedy piece that tells the story of the couple Razan and Samer trying to leave their country with their bag and see themselves waiting somewhere … Where are they? Are they allowed to cross? What can you take with you? And what did they forget to pack in their…
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…
