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Birth

The story of a woman caught up in a cycle of pregnancies because of social pressure to produce a male child, and two other stories of babies, in need, or absent, in Arab countries.

Icarus Films | 2001 | 26 minutes

Dalya's Other Country

A Syrian teen attempts to balance her new life in L.A. while maintaining her Islamic traditions.

GOOD DOCS | 2017 | 58 minutes

Dolls - A Woman From Damascus

Dolls follows the daily life of a Damascene woman while the Muslim Barbie, Fulla, takes over the Arab world.

First Hand Films | 2008 | 52 minutes

Far from Bashar

A few years ago, the al-Mahamids fled Bashar al-Assad and Syria to settle in Montreal. A nuanced portrayal of a Syrian family in Canada, coping with a seemingly interminable war, thousands of miles away, that continues to affect their lives.

National Film Board of Canada | 2020 | 73 minutes

Iraq's Lost Generation

International Emmy Award-winner is an unprecedented investigation into a generation of young victims of the war against the Islamic State.

Cinétévé | 2021 | 52 minutes

ISIS, The Ghost Children

Never before have the children of criminals been punished for the crime of their parents: the children of French jihadists are a textbook case.

Cinétévé | 2023 | 70 minutes

The Journalist and Her Jailers

Luna Watfa, a journalist and former political prisoner living in exile in Germany, reports on the men charged with mass detention and torture in Assad’s prisons, at the world’s first trial against members of the Syrian regime, for crimes against humanity.

First Hand Films | 2022 | 83 minutes

The Light in Her Eyes

A woman is a school. Teach her and you teach a generation.

GOOD DOCS | 2012 | 87 minutes

Little Palestine, Diary of a Siege

A filmed diary of the daily life in the biggest Palestinian refugee camp – Yarmouk, in Damascus, Syria and its besieged inhabitants, who decided to face bombing, displacement and hunger with rallying, study, music, love and joy.

Lightdox | 2021 | 89 minutes

Long Distance Swimmer: Sara Mardini

When former pro swimmer Sara and her sister Yusra arrived in Germany from war-torn Syria they were Europe's most celebrated refugees. Now Sara is facing a 20-year prison sentence for volunteering with a Greek NGO, helping other refugees.

EPF Media | 2023 | 89 minutes