LOS ANGELES -- Home is a complicated notion for Feras Fayyad, the director of the Oscar-nominated Syrian documentary "The Cave." His family home in Syria is believed to have been taken just weeks ago ...

There’s a sequence early on in Talal Derki’s documentary Of Fathers and Sons that makes your blood run cold. A cheerful preteen boy finds a bird and shows it to his father. The father recommends that ...

EXCLUSIVE: France’s Montpellier Mediterranean Film Festival, also known as Cinemed, and Beirut-based Arab cinema platform Aflamuna have unveiled the seven projects selected for its 4th project ...

Last night on Frontline, PBS broadcast " Syria Behind the Lines ," extraordinary footage behind the lines on both sides of the war in Syria. Documentary filmmaker Olly Lambert risked his life to show ...

The world remembers the ancient Greek Gods and legendary Trojan Horse, but many forget the decade-long war in between. The “Queens of Syria” documentary. Boston University’s Core Curriculum co-hosted ...

In the latest story of the Syrian government cracking down on artists, independent filmmaker Orwa Nyrabia has gone missing, presumably detained by Syrian authorities. Nyrabia, 35, was supposed to fly ...

A lot of the footage is graphic, and will be unfamiliar to those who have not followed Syria closely. Viewers will gaze on the disfigured corpse of a dead 13-year-old who, by opposition accounts, was ...

Amid chaos and conflict in the Middle East, a new FRONTLINE documentary investigates high-stakes questions about the future of a country at the center of the region: Syria. The country shares borders ...

Donatella Della Ratta, an Italian researcher on media in the Arab world, has been attending Dox Box 2009, a creative documentary film festival in Damascus. Global Voices stands out as one of the ...

[Speaking Arabic] I haven’t slept at all since yesterday. I came early in the morning to see the people, to express joy on behalf of all the mothers of missing, imprisoned or killed. May peace and ...