Documentary films produced by Bidayyat, as well as those films that have received a Bidayyat grant supporting feature-length documentary filmmaking. These films, and their up-and-coming Syrian directors, represent a cinematic approach centred around experimentation and an alternative visual language that keeps pace with the major changes currently underway in the region, not just to document these events, but to interrogate them, to probe their human details, and to restore their forgotten stories, all as part of a vision that recognizes the distinctive and special status of auteur filmmaking. 

 

Bidayyat has stopped its grants for now.  We will announce here once the Grant is open again.

 

   
FEATURED SHORT FILMS
Taste of Cement
14/09/2017
"Taste of Cement", a film by Ziad Kalthoum, produced by Bidayyat and BASIS BERLIN Filmproduktion  more
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Still Recording
04/09/2018
Saeed is a young cinema passionate trying to teach the youth in Eastern Ghouta in Syria the rules of filming, but the reality they face is much harsher to respect any rule. His friend Milad is on the other side of the fence, in Damascus, under the control of the regime...  more
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194. Us Children of the camp, a film by Samer Salameh
17/03/2017
  About the film:   “194. Us Children of the camp” follows the story of Yarmouk Palestinian camp in Syria as of 2011, through the eyes and experiences of a group of young residents of the camp. The film follows the director’s journey as he is forced to join the Palestinian Liberation Army...  more
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"Houses without doors", a film by Avo Kaprealian
01/07/2015
The film portrays the changes in the life of an Armenian family on Aleppo’s frontline in Al Midan, an area that brought shelter to the persecuted Armenians 100 years ago and today to many displaced Syrians. From the balcony of his home, the director films with a small camera the...  more
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"Our terrible country", A film by Mohammad Ali Atassi & Ziad Homsi
06/05/2014
Our Terrible Country’ takes us on the perilous journey of Yassin Haj Saleh, a well-known Syrian intellectual and dissident, and the young photographer Ziad Homsi who travel together in an arduous and dangerous route from the liberated area of Douma/Damascus to Raqqa in northern Syria, only to find themselves eventually...  more