Ammar al-Beik Movies

Interviews with three Syrian women who live in exile.

Germany, September 2014. A Syrian refugee camp has opened on the outskirts of Berlin. Visual artist and filmmaker Ammar al-Beik has a cubicle...

A parable on the Syrian present by mixing footage of the protests in Syria and a circus performance that involves a lion and goes awry with a nod to...

Aspirin and a Bullet (2011) is the first feature film by Syrian multimedia artist Ammar Al-Beik. The 2-hour autobiographical black and white film...

The life of a young family as it is interwoven with the stories of the past year; of protests, change, revolutions and martyrs. The birth of a baby,...

In this contemplative homage to an important part of Damascene industrial history, the filmmaker revives the old steam engine plant of Damascus, once...

Bissan, a girl from Jerusalem, who has no-one left in her life except her old grandma, lives in an old house that used to belong to her ancestors,...

Director al-Beik's first film, shot in Damascus in 1995 at a flour mill next to his mother’s house.

Created around a taped interview with the artist Samia Halaby, director Al-Beik includes Halaby's own footage of a trip to the West Bank, in which...