Syrian filmmakers are touring European film festivals this week, screening "Our Terrible Country," a film that explores an intergenerational friendship amid kidnappings, war and exile. In this ...

Mohammad Ali Atassi and Ziad Homsi's documentary on events arising from the ongoing Syrian civil war won the top prize in competition at the French festival. By Neil Young Our Terrible Country Film ...

Un film di Ziad Kalthoum. A Beirut un gruppo di operai siriani sono chiusi nel cantiere di costruzione di un grattacielo e riescono ad avere notizie dal mondo solo grazie ad un televisore. Espandi ...

Mohammed Ali Al-Atassi (محمد علي الأتاسي), born in 1967 in Damascus, Syria, is a Syrian journalist, human rights activist and documentary filmmaker. He is the son of former Syrian President Noureddine ...

Atassi and Homsi don’t sugarcoat the realities of the conflict. By focusing on the relationship between Al-Haj Saleh, who is in his fifties, and the younger man, the film telescopes the generational ...

Left: Yassin al-Haj Saleh, center, appears in director Ali Atassi's "Our Terrible Country." The film depicts Saleh's journey from Douma to Raqqa, now the stronghold of the Islamic State, before he ...

BEIRUT: "We were walking Downtown one evening and we saw workmen reinstalling the statue at Martyrs' Square. They were Syrian," Ali Atassi smiles. "Syrians erecting a statue that Lebanese later ...

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BEIRUT: The film opens upon an out-of-focus shot of an index finger moving minute objects around on a white surface. “What do you think,” a male voice asks in Arabic. “Should I put an exclamation mark ...