Film
Under the Sky of Damascus
Heba Khaled, Talal Derki, Ali Wajeeh, 2023
A tight-knit group of young Syrian women embark upon on a radical project: Producing a play that lays bare the culture of misogyny and sexual abuse that has blighted the lives of females in their country for generations. Farah, Eliana, Inana, Souhir and Grace want to blow the whistle on women's oppression, though they know their production will make it even harder for them to get work. Collaborating with exiled Syrian filmmakers Heba Khaled and Talal Derki and Ali Wajeeh on the ground in Damascus the women fan out through the war-weary city to gather individual stories that will form the basis of their play.