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Dolls

Diana El Jeiroudi, 2007

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The War Show

Andreas Dalsgaard, Obaidah Zytoon, 2016

In March 2011, radio host Obaidah Zytoon and her circle of friends join the street protests against President Bashar al-Assad, as the Arab Spring reaches Syria. Knowing their country would be changed forever, this group of artists and activists begin filming their lives and the events around them. But as the regime’s violent response spirals the country into a bloody civil war, their hopes for a better future will be tested by violence, imprisonment and death.

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Vand fra Eufrat

Theodor Christensen, 1956

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Our Memory Belongs to Us

Rami Farah, 2021

Nearly 10 years after the beginning of the Syrian revolution, three Syrian activists – Yadan, Odai and Rani – reunite on a theatre stage in Paris. Through life-size projections onto a big screen, Syrian director Rami Farah confronts the three men with footage, some of it their own, depicting events that changed their destinies forever. Watching the brutal footage together, they reflect on their personal journeys, revive their collective memory, and wonder what is left of their hopes and dreams.

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The Cave

Feras Fayyad, 2019

For the besieged Syrian civilians, hope and safety lie underground, inside the subterranean hospital known as the Cave, where pediatrician and managing physician Dr. Amani Ballour and her colleagues Samaher and Dr. Alaa have claimed their right to work as equals alongside their male counterparts, doing their jobs in a way that would be unthinkable in the oppressively patriarchal culture that exists above.

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A New Beginning

Ala'A Mohsen, 2019

Rabiaa arrives from Syria to Norway with his four-year-old son, Qais, where the two of them must start over. Alone in Norway, Rabiaa dreams of rebuilding the sense of family that is so important to him and his son. However, Rabiaa has a wounded leg and can barely walk.

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Arbejdsplads Syrien

Svend Aage Lorentz, 1964

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Zeit Zeitoun

Mathias Dolmer Rasmussen, Jeppe Dall Gregersen, 2017

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Reunited

Mira Jargil, 2019

Fleeing Syria, two doctors and their children are separated from each other. The kids bravely live on their own in Turkey, while their parents make it to Canada and Denmark. Now they're stuck in a Kafkaesque system that reduces their family life to Skype calls.

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For Sama

Edward Watts, 2020

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Mig og min familie - Hassan

Anja Hauberg, 2013

Hassan and his family are refugees from Syria. They now live in Frederikshavn in the northern part of Denmark. Hassan is the best in his family at speaking Danish, and he often helps his parents when there is something they don't understand, and practice Danish words with them during dinner.

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A Comedian in a Syrian Tragedy

Rami Farah, 2019

This documentary film is a chronicle of a revolution and war, experienced by the famous Syrian actor Fares Helou. Fares’ life changed radically when he joined the people in the streets of Damascus calling for the fall of the Syrian regime. He immediately had to go underground and director Rami Farah joined him in hiding with a camera.