it is little wonder Syrian movies have had pride of a place at an independent film festival in Turkey. ISTANBUL (Reuters) - With Syria's civil war spilling across its borders and Islamic State ...

Have Syria's destructed buildings and war-torn regions become a hot spot to produce movies? Jackie Chan was blasted after news of his latest movie being shot in Hajar Al Aswad, south of Damascus ...

The apartment buildings were real, but not in Yemen. Filming started last month in Hajar al-Aswad, a southern suburb of Damascus, Syria, that used to be home to thousands of people. In the photo ...

He’s spent two years there investigating the Syrian civil war for his new movie, which premiered at the Sundance Film Festival last week ahead of its debut on HBO in March. “People need to ...

arrives like a painful bookend to “The Cave,” another recent documentary set in wartime Syria. In both films, lives are lost, saved and irrevocably upended at the hands of a murderous regime ...

Syrian filmmaker and journalist Waad al-Kateab says she will always remember a mother shouting at her: "Film me! Film me! Let the world see what's happening!" At the woman's side was a dead infant ...

Cries From Syria," from Evgeny Afineevsky, who directed the Oscar-nominated documentary 'Winter on Fire: Ukraine's Fight for Freedom,' looks at the ongoing conflict in Syria. By Boyd van Hoeij No ...

“Stars in Broad Daylight,” with a domineering character who strongly resembles Hafez al-Assad, had one official showing in Damascus. Now it’s been restored. By Ben Kenigsberg On the phone ...

City Of Ghosts uses its characters' personal footage , captured as the activists escaped Syria, juxtaposing the group's flight from the country with videos they had recorded, and were being sent ...

I knew everything was about to change when the head of a major Syrian movie studio ordered me to appear on television and apologize for something I would never have dared to say in public.

it is little wonder Syrian movies have had pride of a place at an independent film festival in Turkey. One of them, "Silvered Water, Syria Self-Portrait", shown at the Cannes Film Festival last ...