Jaber Jokhadar

Damascus: The Smile of Sadness

The film tells the story of Sabria (the protagonist), who suffers from the male mentality in society during the period from the days of the Great Syrian Revolution until the 1940s, and depicts the Syrian woman’s attempt to achieve her freedom and equality with men.

The Heavenly Road

After his marriage to Rama, Amgad becomes an outcast in his community. When he gets injured in a raid, the siege imposed on the region prevents him from getting the proper care, leaving him blind. With his wife as his only solace, Amgad and his wife decide to emigrate illegaly to seek treatment.

Syrians

The film talks about the story of Zeina and Reem, two women struggling in Syria, they both cross paths with Yousef and his father in a series of events.

Solitaire

Therese, the mayor's wife in a Lebanese village, joyfully prepares for an overnight visit of her daughter's suitor and his parents. She excitedly shares the happy news of the engagement with pictures of her beloved brother who was killed by a Syrian bomb 20 years ago and is still bizarrely present in every corner of her house. Only when the long-awaited guests are at her doorstep, she discovers they are Syrian; this engagement will only happen over Therese's dead body!

In Paradox

While being relentlessly attacked, a Man seeks to uncover a mystery and stop the unknown memories that are controlling him, only to learn the difference between reality and illusions.

Fisheye

It tells the story of a writer's relationship with his wife under special and complex circumstances, in which their lives intersect with those of a second man living elsewhere, making the relationship a dialectical one of reality and imagination.