Focus Bidayyat : New Beginnings
In Coma, three women from three generations of a family live the drama of ordinary life during an extraordinary time in Syria.
COMA
- Sara Fattahi
- 2015
- Lebanon, Syria
- s.t. English
- 98 min
Focus Bidayyat : New Beginnings
With barrel bombs falling on Ghouta, the Eastern suburbs of Damascus, civilians seek shelter in their basements. The filmmaker is one of them. Holding on to his camera, he attempts to film what cannot not be expressed in words.
DOUMA UNDERGROUND
- Tim Alsiofi
- 2019
- Syria, Lebanon
- s.t. English
- 12 min
Focus Bidayyat : New Beginnings
A film-conversation between a writer and filmmaker questions the relationship between language and cinema as tools to represent war and violence.
IN FIELDS OF WORDS: CONVERSATIONS WITH SAMAR YAZBEK
- Rania Stephan
- 2022
- Lebanon
- s.t. English
- 69 min
Focus Bidayyat : New Beginnings
An elegy to Yarmouk, known as the capital of the Palestinian diaspora, a place that resisted atrocity with dignity but that no longer exists.
LITTLE PALESTINE, DIARY OF A SIEGE
- Abdallah Al-Khatib
- 2021
- Lebanon, France, Qatar
- s.t. French and English
- 89 min
Focus Bidayyat : New Beginnings
Two dissidents embark on a perilous journey from Damascus to Raqqa and then into exile in Turkey as Syria tumbles into the abyss.
OUR TERRIBLE COUNTRY
- Ziad Homsi, Mohammad Ali Atassi
- 2014
- Lebanon, Syria
- s.t. English
- 80 min
International Short and Medium-Length Competition
When a host of new plant species suddenly appears, strange things start to happen, and questions abound. Where did they come from, and what do they want?
THE SECRET GARDEN
- Nour Ouayda
- 2023
- Lebanon
- s.t. French or English
- 28 min
Focus Bidayyat : New Beginnings
Two art students living a carefree life in Damascus decide to join the Syrian revolution by moving to Douma, a working-class suburb under rebel rule.
STILL RECORDING
- Saeed Albatal, Ghiath Ayoub
- 2018
- Lebanon, Syria, France, Germany
- s.t. English
- 120 min
Focus Bidayyat : New Beginnings
Edited from Egyptian sci-fi film The Master of Time, (directed by Kamal el Sheikh in 1987), the viewer joins the main character, who is stuck in space and time.
THRESHOLD
- Rania Stephan
- 2018
- Lebanon
- s.t. English
- 12 min