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31/03/2020
With the barrel bombs falling on Ghouta, civilians sought shelter in the basements of their homes. I was one of them, holding on to my camera, I tried to film what I couldn’t express in words.
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I have seen nothing, I have seen all
28/03/2020
After talking about the end of the war in Syria and the start of the reconstruction phase, Yaser and his family find themselves compelled to deal with the transfer of graves from public parks in Aleppo. Thousands of kilometers separate Yaser who lives in a Scandinavian country, from his parents in Aleppo. With what these two places carry of contradiction is reflecting the way they both deal with what happened.
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30/05/2018
The film is about the filmmaker’s return to her hometown, Idlib, in 2015 after it fell in the hands of Al Fateh army which is a coalition of different fighters including Al-Qaeda affiliated ones.
After four years of no-see and forced displacement she finally returned to find that many things have changed, few people she knows are still there and the ones who are still there don’t recognize her because of... more
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08/05/2018
Director: Orwa Mokdad
D.O.P: Ahmad Traboulsi
Editing: Shadi Jaber
Music and Sound: Mohammad Seyam
Two years after the Lebanese General Security confiscated his passport, a filmmaker, returning from Aleppo to complete his first feature film, got stuck in Beirut. The filmmaker tries to finish his film but is unable to complete it because of the hard conditions he and thousands of Syrian refugees suffer from, sometimes even pushing them to commit physical or moral... more
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03/04/2018
The film depicts the last days of Eastern Aleppo’s siege and before its fall, when Milad, residing in Beirut, follows up with his friend Ghiath, the besieged civilian activist and photographer, on people’s situations and sufferings while waiting for their fate among the fighting parties. The film is an intimate and personal recording of civilians’ sufferings during this time of siege, hunger, and war, and a recording of the relationship... more
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06/11/2017
The story did not begin with the worldwide TV snatched image of the Syrian child Elan, thrown on the Turkish shores by the waves, and it definitely did not end with it.
Once upon a time there was a boy who had joy in drawing the sea.
One day, into the bottom of the sea he dove, in hope of escaping war and misery.
Alas, he found himself trapped amongst swarms of screens... more
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25/07/2017
Now:End of Season.
The day dawns on Izmir, the big port city of Turkey. On the phone, a translator gets impatient …
What’s the connection between the Syrian refugees crisis of 2016, and that phone call from Assad the father to Ronald Reagan, thirty years before ? End of Season is very careful about not drawing a line between these two events. Completely un-contexttualized, the taping is only evocative : it instills... more
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18/10/2016
From the besieged Eastern Ghouta and with the participation of the people of Douma, This Video was filmd.
For this video to see the light means that all the barriers of injustice, siege, bombardment and airstrikes can’t prevent this song from reaching its people and leave its mark.
“Meen?” (Who?) is the question that Douma’s families ask again to themselves, to us, and to the world, on the beat of Bu Nasser's... more
29/09/2016
Garage Izmir is in the middle of the long migratory journey that thousands of Syrian refugees pass through daily to take the sea route to Europe, after a long wait in Turkey.
Will this journey be delayed one more day?
Director: Ayman Nahle
Duration: 20:00
Year of production: 2015
Produced by: Bidayyat
22/02/2016
Yaman is a young inventor. His greatest invention is an incredible machine which can turns tissues into incredible ones, an invention that helps him survive.
Director : Amer Albarzawi
Duration : 04.05
Produced by: Bidayyat
Year of production: 2016
22/12/2015
More than two years have passed and the Syrian regime still besieges the Southern suburbs of Damascus where a population of more than 100,000 people live until today. During those two years, more than 200 died of hunger and the lack of medical care. The remaining still live under the siege, surviving only by what grows from the earth such as grass and other green leafs and vegetables. They fight... more
13/08/2015
"9½ -that's the age of Maha, a Syrian girl and the only survivor of her family. Left on her own, with a picture of her family all that is left, she embarks on a journey in her world made up of the visual experiences she accumulated and witnessed in the Syrian situation. During this journey, Maha makes unusual friends, with her imagination guiding her with sarcasm through this difficult world.
Director: Syrialism
Duration: 07:34 min
Year of production:... more
04/06/2015
“3 years ago, the inhabitants of “Al Marj” refugee camp located in the Bikaa Valley, fled from different regions in Syria to find refuge in Lebanon. Instead of finding a safe haven, they were subjected to a sudden order of evacuation on the grounds of the tents being in proximity to a military zone. The authorities granted the refugees only 5 days to dismantle their laboriously built tents, without offering... more
03/04/2015
" Siege" is the outcome of a workshop via Skype with twelve young people under siege in Yarmouk Camp near Damascus since almost a year and a half. This film expresses four daily realities of this siege. While finalizing their films, the situation in Yarmouk got worse and it became difficult for them to meet together. They persevered and here are their intimate reflections.
Director: Abdullah al-Khatib, Deaa Yahea, Moayad Zaghmout,... more
07/01/2015
When you can no longer rebel, when your country turns into a big prison, you walk
In the same place you used to rebel in, your memory walks you, because the place has changed, or the people were killed, imprisoned, shelled, displaced
A city split in 2, regime and liberated, and where is your place?
Relax..you're in Damascus!
Director: Azza Hamwi
Duration: 6:49 min
Year of production: 2015
Produced by: Bidayyat
08/12/2014
A year has passed since the kidnapping of Razan Zeytouneh, Samira al Khalil, Wael Hamadeh and Nazem Hamadi From this office.
Till this day, the scarf of Razan remains untouched and in the wait.
Till this day, the identity of the perpetrators remains an open secret.
27/10/2014
Two years passed since my first visit to Aleppo, meanwhile Al Forkan battle has started in which several areas have been liberated in Aleppo.
The first time I've been able to set my Camera without being questioned was at Al Shaar liberated street in Aleppo, though Al Shaar Market was heavily targeted by regimes' air and land strikes, still it was full of lively colors, the thing that pushed me to... more
03/10/2014
I've had a recurring dream since I fled the Yarmouk Refugee Camp and came to Beirut. The dream takes me back to besieged Yarmouk, where death and destruction have found a way to settle in all its details. I am not sure whether it is a dream or a nightmare. But I live in this open-ended waiting with images of that place and the difficulty of abandoning it. Maybe the... more
24/07/2014
This film was born at the frontline of the outskirts of Damascus between the suburb of Jobar and the Abbasyeen Square in central Damascus, born between life and death, between beginnings and endings, between the rebel Free Syrian Army and the Syrian's regime army, between the sniper and his rifle, between the voice of Fayrouz
and the sound of bullets
Director: Saeed Albatal and Ghiath-Had
Duration: 12:40
Year of production: 2014
Produced by: Bidayyat and... more
27/05/2014
The random shelling in Syria led to the displacement of hundreds of thousands of Syrian families inside Syria, but also to neighboring countries. Often, the families had to flee without the fathers, as they disappeared in prisons or died. As a result, many of the displaced children are now forced to work due to the former sole breadwinner.
In Beirut, the Lebanese capital, tens of children daily roam the city's streets... more
30/04/2014
The revolutionary movement of Syria not only asked for a political change when it took the streets in 2011, but also to reaffirm the existence of individuality in society. Our personal individuality was brutally oppressed by the dictatorial one-party rule and the purely state-controlled organizations and trade unions, which attempted to make people ideologically uniform from the youngest age through the youth-based Baathist organizations. With the recapturing of our personal... more
29/04/2014
In his very first short film, Nabil Alsayes tells us about the little Syrian girl Rama who lost all her toys under the rubble! Like many others, she then left Syria without knowing what happened to her family, finding refuge in one of the many camps in a neighboring country. Rama hides her most valuable things, her dreams and hopes in one small plastic bag that she took along with her... more
22/04/2014
In Syria, thousands of detainees have been taken down to the basements of death, forcibly disappearing, their lives being left at the mercy of the torturer’s breathless beatings.Their lives stop existing in the prison’s dungeons, only their souls being left to transcend the walls and the torturer extinguishes the detainees’ human existence in the torture cells, ending the lives of our beloved ones with a simple paper, the certificate of... more
13/04/2014
One hundred years have not been enough to remove the effect of the massacres and forced displacement on the Armenian people at the hands of the Ottomans since 1915 until today. Back then, Armenians endured a long journey of misery in an attempt to find a safe place to live in this harsh world, fleeing from their homeland Armenia to Syria, where they eventually found refuge, especially in the city... more
31/03/2014
The film “sage” deals with the consecutive expulsions and displacements (in Arabic: Al Nakba – The catastrophe) that the Syrian Palestinians have suffered from in their lives, the latest being the expulsion from Syria. Abu Al Tayeb – a main character of this short film – has experienced with his family the expulsion of 1948 from the Palestinian Territories and the expulsion following the Palestinian uprising in the 1980s.
However, he... more
13/03/2014
"Street Music" takes us on a journey through the world of music, youth and freedom, from Damascus to the streets of Beirut, its Syrian director Orwa Al Meqdad using this short film to introduce us to lives and characters that shatter the stereotypical images of Syrians in Lebanon that are peddled by the populist media.
Forced to flee their homeland Syria by events following the revolution, three young musicians and a... more
08/01/2014
Locked in this closed space without hope or future, your screams get louder while the images follow one after the other in your head, your feelings and thoughts revolt, desperately longing for freedom. The soul disconnects itself from the body, thus freeing itself from the pain caused by all fetters and regimes, trying to escape the world of words in search for its humanity. Then, there will be only one... more
29/11/2013
“If love is an act of doing good, the one who carries love and kindness in his heart brings about happiness and bliss to himself and the people around him“. These are the words the late Syrian president Hafez Al Assad pronounced in his speech on the occasion of the Labor Day in 1993.
But we remember just too well the love, happiness and bliss we actually experienced in these days,... more
04/11/2013
Every action provokes a reaction. And though the reaction doesn't have the same power nor goes into the same direction, eventually, both work in the same way. Likewise, each oppression will eventually lead to a revolution, and each revolution will create itself an image.
This is a self-image of the Syrian revolution from the first painting tray to the last gallon of Sarin gas.It is now on display in all windows... more
07/10/2013
Recently, the phenomenon of military brigades and factions that fight in the Syrian revolution and release statements claiming to possess the exclusive right to speak in the name of revolution and as those who own the truth has increased. This short video is a reminder to modesty, keeping in mind that there's not perfection.
03/09/2013
She tries to forget about the details she saw, seeking to live just an ordinary day: but the pictures won't let go of her, are burned into her mind and memory. And when she has finally managed to rush her fears, she catches her breath and goes back to her duty to rescue the wounded in a field hospital somewhere in Syria...
In this film, I tried to portray the situation... more
24/07/2013
Since the very beginning of the Syrian revolution, the actress May Skaaf got involved as a peaceful activist in the popular uprising of her country. As May rapidly took publicly position with the opposition movement against Bashar Al Assad and its regime while living in Damascus, she was subject to continuous harassment and threats by the security forces. Though having experienced several short arrests, May was always determined to stay... more
24/06/2013
In February 2013, a video published on Youtube showed a child - surrounded by a number of children and young men - singing A-Qaida songs in the streets of Binnish in the northern Syrian province of Idlib. The songs not only glorified Bin Laden, but also incited to kill Alawites and Shiites.
The video spread massively among the social media and the city of Binnish quickly became infamous for the songs'... more
15/06/2013
In the midst of all that happens, far from the mass media's fuss and its focus on spectacular incidents, hundreds of people work in silence, risking their lives to rescue the lives of others, and thus rejecting the ugliness of death by the desire to live.
In the city of Al-Qusair in rural Homs, several months before it falls back into the hand of the Syrian regime, Amal Saloum has recorded... more
11/06/2013
In his first experimental film " Being good so far'' , the Director Orwa Moqdad, tries to record by his lens what is being usually absent and ignored in the media, surpassing the images of destruction and violence, to scenes of humane life of the population in the neighborhood of Al-Sha'ar in Aleppo city, that neighborhood where it's raining shells every day since it was liberated from the Syrian regime forces.
The filmmaker... more
28/05/2013
From within the shelters that are home to Syrian children at the Chatila camp in Beirut, Lebanon; the director Lina Al Abed vividly portrays the haunting dreams of these forcefully migrated children, intersecting their deep stories and nightmares into one dream in the movie - The Dream of Strong Monsters - a short film by Bidayyat Productions.
Using daring audiovisual language that combines the beauty of the portrayal of the children,... more
08/05/2013
If the "MiG" didn't show up, it could've been just another ordinary day.
But it was there, looking for love to shatter, and blow away the features of my exile the "camp", palestine's twin.
The bedroom, the beautiful nights and the morning coffee were all exposed to the streets and the main square. At that very moment, Dunia my love and my wife, was dead to me.
This movie is about the Palestinian... more
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