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Kanopy
78
37
7.6
/1109/
75
/25/
67
/70/
3.7
/596/
93
/15/
83
/2/

Return to Homs (2013)
Filmed over 3 years in Homs, accompanying 2 outstanding young men from the time they were only dreaming of freedom to the time when they are forced to change course. Basset, the 19yo national football team goalkeeper, who became an outspoken demonstration leader in the city, then an icon revolution singer, till he becomes a fighter... a militia leader. Ossama, his 24yo friend, renowned citizen journalist, cynical pacifist... as his views are forced to change, until he is detained by army secret service. It is the story of a city, of which the world have heard a lot, but never really got closer than news, never really had the chance to experience how a war erupted. a modern times epic of youth in war time.
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65
34
6.5
/333/
45
/9/
67
/23/
3.4
/932/
83
/12/

Nezouh (2023)
Even as bombs fall on Damascus, Mutaz refuses to flee to the uncertain life of a refugee. His wife, Hala, and daughter, Zeina, must make the choice whether to stay or leave.
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75
31
7.7
/479/
72
/19/
71
/18/
4.0
/1752/

The Dupes (1972)
The film follows three Palestinian refugees brought together by dispossession and hope for a better future. Hiding in the tank of a truck, the men attempt to make their way across the border into Kuwait, the "promised land."
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74
18
7.6
/204/
70
/9/
70
/7/
4.0
/1086/

The Night (1992)
In the destroyed city of Quneitra is the grave of a resistance fighter for Palestine. His son, the director, tries to restore the dead man's history by mixing echoes of his mother's memory and his desire to give his father a more honorable death. Through the daily lives, dreams, fears, and hopes of its citizens, Malas chronicles his hometown Quneitra in the Golan Heights between 1936, the year of the first revolts against the British and Zionists in Palestine until the year of the city's destruction. He seeks to exorcise a feeling of shame and humiliation that long accompanied the image of his father and also his town, occupied by Israelis in 1967.
poster
63
13
7.8
/179/
50
/23/
51
/8/
3.8
/694/

The Extras (1993)
Salem dreams of being an actor but is still working in a gas station, only his love for Nada can make things easier for him.
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60
/1/

Doomsday (Short film) (2024)
The ending feelings ain't always the end, when we feel death is near, some keeps on silence, other scream..but who talk to himself then?
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60
/1/

Labor (2017)
A short film about post-crisis Syria through the obsessions of a pregnant woman haunted by nightmares about deformed children in the destruction.
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8.0
/7/

Tent 56 (2022)
In a Syrian refugee camp, "Siba" a woman who is looking for her right to obtain privacy by finding a place that provides privacy for her and all spouses in their intimate relationship away from the eyes of those around them, especially children.
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87
/69/

The Penguin (2006)
A young woman lives alone in isolation in her home and experiences many events inside her imagination or in her dreams; however, the only real thing in her life is her little goldfish.
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6.3
/28/

My Last Friend (2012)
When a popular doctor takes his own life, leaving behind a video will and a series of films of his life, everyone who knew him is forced to reassess their own life, creating a mirror of contemporary Syrian society.
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7.0
/31/
80
/2/

The Chickens (1977)
Through mordant social commentary and symbolic irony, Amiralay focuses this film on the chicken farming industry in the rural Syrian village of Sadad. He documents the burdened livelihoods of farmers and the economic policies of the government that encouraged industrial egg productions rather than artisanal trades, a switch that ultimately led to the plight of the Sadad's rural peasant class.
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6.5
/16/

War Travelers (2018)
Baha’a is ready to leave the wartorn city of Aleppo to return to his hometown. He and his fellow travellers are forced to stop their journey because of clashes ahead. Complete strangers are stuck with each other, trying to bring life back to a village that has been destroyed and to wait out the war. Will it ever end?
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7.2
/6/
80
/1/

Karate girls (1981)
When her father dies and leaves her alone, a young and beautiful girl finds solace in dancing and playing karate. Her loneliness, however, tempts men to approach her, including her immoral cousin whom she rejects, but he wouldn’t take no for an answer.
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20
/1/

A Silent Cinema (2001)
Meyar Al Roumi returns to his native Damascus, eager to start making films, but he is censored. He draws inspiration from it to paint a portrait of the Syrian filmmakers most affected by censorship.
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80
/1/

The Visit (2020)
A married couple are leading a monotonous life after the husband's retirement and the son's migration. Suddenly, a teenage young man storms into their home.
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7.4
/21/
100
/1/

The Lover (2012)
The autobiography of a film director who grows up in a small town then leaves for the city to finish his studies. When he became famous, he decided to make a film about his upbringing in the village based on his childhood memories.
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7.0
/11/
50
/1/

The Greatest Sacrifice (2018)
The film examines the eternal conflict between good and evil. Two main characters try to keep their home town on the path to democracy. Crushed between two evils they make the greatest sacrifice.
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10
/1/

Seven Floors (1994)
Screenwriter Goes to the hospital for medical examinations, but he heard strange news. This hospital has seven floors, whenever it is moved to the bottom floor, becomes close to death
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7.1
/32/

Qamarayn wa Zaytouna (2002)
The film's story revolves around a child who has psychological problems (Adel), and the head of the family is disabled due to a severe injury he suffered in the Palestine War, so he became a seat and was unable even to perform his marital duties so that the wife continues to suffer from a double disadvantage, as she began bearing the burdens of raising her children, and assumed responsibility for the home The entire role of the father is also practiced, and there are uncommon forms of cruelty coated with a kind of maternal love that she cannot curb while shaving her son who sucks his thumb, and plucking his hair, and her daughter (Princess) is also punished by shaving her head because she colluded with her brother.
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7.1
/37/
20
/1/

The Jar: A Tale From the East (2001)
Based on a true story that was narrated over 1400 years ago, The Jar deals with the epic struggle between good and evil, and highlights the ethics and virtues every family values. Set in a Middle Eastern village, the story of the jar begins when a poor yet virtuous family discovers a lost treasure buried in a jar under their new home. In their quest to return the jar to its rightful owner, a jealous and greedy neighbor who has his eye on the jar foils their attempts. A fascinating adventure ensues as the towns-folk try to solve the mystery of the jar. There are also two mice who steal the family's eggs, but are defeated by the family's pet squirrel.
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7.3
/24/
60
/1/

Suleima (2014)
An animated documentary film, based on an actual story of a woman from Damascus countryside. Suleima evokes some of childhood memories, when her thoughts refusing injustice had arisen. The film is a portrait of Suleima, and a monitoring of intellectual and social shifts she experiences during the events. The visual environment: has been presented graphically fully of sharp contrasts, and imaginary mixed with reality.
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7.3
/44/

Our Terrible Country (2014)
Our Terrible Country portrays the perilous journey of intellectual Yassin al-Haj Saleh and young photographer Ziad Homsi through Syria, at a time when the country edges towards the brink.
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6.8
/7/
74
/5/

Of God and Dogs (2015)
A young Free Syrian Army fighter confesses. He says he killed a man he questioned extensively, and knew to be innocent. He narrates how he had to shoot a short range bullet, before going to bury him in tears. Then he promises to avenge the God who led him to commit the murder. And he asks the director to stop filming.
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6.8
/7/
90
/1/

ID (2007)
Based on the idea of ​​reincarnation, the work tells the story of Ahed, a young man who works in the pottery industry and lives in a village in northern Palestine with his family, where he is haunted by obsessions and memories from another life in another place.
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60
/1/

Seven Minutes to Midnight (2008)
The film tells a story about love and death, friendship and betrayal, health and illness, and responding to life's pressures and various requirements. It is a story about Amjad (Qusai Khouli) and Laila (Nadine), who fell in love and got married, but fate surprises them with a difficult life circumstance and puts them in a more difficult test, so one of them surrenders to the cruelty of the sudden circumstance, and there is marital infidelity and great regret, but after it is too late for this regret and all that remains is what reminds them of the beautiful, painful past.
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30
/1/

Damascus: The Smile of Sadness (2008)
The film tells the story of Sabria (the protagonist), who suffers from the male mentality in society during the period from the days of the Great Syrian Revolution until the 1940s, and depicts the Syrian woman’s attempt to achieve her freedom and equality with men.
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5.6
/12/
20
/1/

Hasiba (2008)
Based on one of the most famous novels by Syrian novelist Khairy Al-Zahabi, the film tells the story of a woman from a Syrian family who is married but always treated badly by her husband, and is good at embroidery.
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60
/1/

The Jasmine Birds (2009)
The film is based on the script of the film "The Diamond Dove" by the writer "Diana Al-Fares".
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4.9
/30/
80
/1/

Once Again (2009)
The film revolves around the subject of Syrian-Lebanese relations, starting from the period of the Syrian military presence in Lebanon, and up until after the Syrian army left, through a love story between a Lebanese woman who came to Damascus to work as a bank manager, and a young Syrian man who works as a communications manager there. The story between them begins with tension, but it quickly turns into a love story, although the tension between them does not completely disappear with falling in love, as the two characters are still living in the past.
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20
/1/

Gray Spaces (1999)
A film that tells a story about a media professor.
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7.7
/63/
90
/2/

When The Seedlings Grow (2022)
Huseyin and his family living in Kobane make a living from selling yogurt. Huseyin and his daughter Zelal set off to the city to sell yogurt. One day, they miss the bazaar time and start walking around the streets, trying to sell the yogurt. While trying to sell yogurt, they meet a boy named Hemudê, which leads to many misfortunes. Their one-day journey witnesses the reshaping of social dynamics in the aftermath of the Kobanê war.
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100
/2/

The Songs of Red Tresses: Woman, life, freedom (2024)
The Songs of Red Tresses: Woman, life, freedom. The woman brought wheat from the field and was the master of finding opportunities in life.
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7.8
/14/
10
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لقاء في تدمر (1965)
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8.0
/13/
55
/2/

My Memory Is Full of Ghosts (2024)
Like a visual elegy, My Memory Is Full of Ghosts explores a reality caught between past, present and future in Homs, Syria. Behind the self-portrait of an exsanguinated population in search of normality emerge memories of the city, haunted by destruction, disfigurement and loss. A deeply moving film, a painful echo of the absurdity of war and the strength of human beings.
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10
/1/

Men Under the Sun (1970)
Three Palestinian men strive to escape the hardships of life in a refugee camp. Under the scorching sun, the men enlist the help of an old man, Abu Al-Khaizuran, to smuggle them in an empty water tank across the desert.
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100
/1/

Color (2023)
Saeed is a young man sees his life in Black and White, but there is a few things can bring back the Colors to his life, and he wants to feel something through them.
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5.8
/10/
10
/1/

One Man Wanted (1973)
A stranger infiltrates a group of people who live in an isolated place and tries to drive a wedge between them to seize control of the land. Two
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10
/1/
60
/1/

Far Away from Home (1969)
A film documenting Al-Sabineh camp for Palestinian refugees in Syria, with an unprecedented experience at the time, as he took the children after filming to show them the footage he filmed of them, the camp and its people, and recorded their reactions, laughter and speech, and added them to the film.
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8.1
/18/
70
/1/

As Though Nothing Happened (2022)
Seven Damascenes, eight years apart, one collective trauma. This is the story of a city and the psychological scars its people bear from years of war.
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10
/1/

Another Face of Love (1973)
A newly graduated young doctor has hopes of making his way steadily in his country, or of traveling to another country in order to achieve his dreams. In the village, he wakes up from his rosy dream he lived before he traveled to a harsh reality, after he is accused of murder.
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7.4
/92/

The Long Night (2009)
Four political activists friends are arrested by the repressive regime in Syria in the 1970s and spend twenty years in detention, three of them are released, and the fourth remains. The three friends are shocked by the huge changes they found in society, while showing the hardships their fourth comrade faces in prison.
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6.6
/5/
10
/1/

A Woman of Fire (1971)
A man is being chased by group of people got rescued by a woman named Turkman. This man is astonished that Turkman knows too much about him.
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80
/3/

Cheers, My Homeland (1979)
A social-political comedy play, considered one of the most legendary critical and purposeful Arab comedies.
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4.0
/6/
60
/1/

Days of Boredom (2008)
The film tells the story of four children living with their father on the Golan front in 1958, who live in constant weariness because of the war. After the military escalation on the front occurs, they are forced to return to their mother in her village.
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5.5
/13/
10
/1/

The Vagabonds (1968)
Two sworn friends, who commit fraud against women and compete in hunting victims of wealthy women, decide to cooperate after one of them threatens the other to expose his plays, and they stay in a luxury hotel, in order to cast nets on a beautiful millionaire girl.
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70
/1/

The Ruins of Raqqa (2018)
For four long years, Islamic State ruled its 'caliphate' from the city of Raqqa. Now freed from IS' brutal dictatorship, survivors emerge and return to a city utterly destroyed by war. Can Raqqa be rebuilt?
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70
/3/

Hey! Don’t Forget the Cumin (2008)
Three voices: Jamil and Sarah both absent and left our planet. Darina is resisting. All three are linked to text. All three choose the artistic expression form in their bid for freedom. Through the film, we try to draw the circle/relation amongst: Life, place, exile / voice, text, art / madness, suicide/ death. We may realise that this circle may also be the path we all follow: To fall or not to fall?
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8.3
/18/
100
/1/

Morning Star (2019)
The film sheds light on the kidnapping of Syrian women who were subjected to torture during the years of the Syrian civil war, and the suffering they had to endure along with their families.


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