
Acting
Sabah Jazairi
Born 1955-01-23 · Damascus, Syria
Sabah Jazairi is a Syrian actress known as one of the pioneers of Syrian television drama. She became widely recognised for her warm, comedic “everywoman” roles in long-running series such as Maraya and family dramas across the 1980s–2000s, building a reputation for natural humour, emotional authenticity, and longevity in Arabic TV.
Acting credits
10.0Tayseer, a conservative man, has grown with a particular hang-up caused by his sister's marriage without his consent. When a man proposes to his daughter Kawthar, Tayseer vehemently opposes their relationship, even if the two are deeply in love. Is it too late to rid him of his hang-up?
The Mexican Hoax
1972
NRThe film's events take place in present-day Syria, about a doctor living in a remote rural town, who devotes his time and energy to serving its people with his professional and life experiences, acting as a "The sage" to them on both the professional and social levels. During his granddaughter's visit, he will face a personal ordeal that will reveal the social deterioration caused by the war and its repercussions on people's destinies, behaviors, and morals. Will he stand alone in his ordeal despite all he has given to those around him? This is a bet that the film "The sage" will answer after a series of exciting challenges and events.
The Sage
2023
NRThe film tells the story of Sabria (the protagonist), who suffers from the male mentality in society during the period from the days of the Great Syrian Revolution until the 1940s, and depicts the Syrian woman’s attempt to achieve her freedom and equality with men.
Damascus: The Smile of Sadness
2008
NRA social-political comedy play, considered one of the most legendary critical and purposeful Arab comedies.
Cheers, My Homeland
1979
NRThe fate of three women in wartime is united, each of whom is called Maryam and living at different times facing the war in its moral, social and brutal aspects, but each of them will not lose a life
Mariam
2013
7.1In the destroyed city of Quneitra is the grave of a resistance fighter for Palestine. His son, the director, tries to restore the dead man's history by mixing echoes of his mother's memory and his desire to give his father a more honorable death. Through the daily lives, dreams, fears, and hopes of its citizens, Malas chronicles his hometown Quneitra in the Golan Heights between 1936, the year of the first revolts against the British and Zionists in Palestine until the year of the city's destruction. He seeks to exorcise a feeling of shame and humiliation that long accompanied the image of his father and also his town, occupied by Israelis in 1967.
The Night
1992
NRAn introverted former broadcaster chooses to detach himself from the overwhelming situation his country is going through, but the news of his daughter getting besieged in Aleppo break through his shield. A portrayal of the fragile and voluntary detachment as a coping mechanism with war and trauma.
Damascus... Aleppo
2019
NRWith the housing crisis worsening and cement blocks constantly creeping up to swallow old houses with their inhabitants, a jungle of wolves that live in a fierce world lies behind the cement jungle. As a young journalist and his beautiful wife clash with what they think is the wolf of the jungle, it turns out that this wolf is only one of several wolves in a whole jungle of wolves.
Jungle of Wolves
1977
NRNo synopsis available yet.
Al-Muziafoun
1975
NRA Syrian political comedy play that takes place before and after the October 1973 war in Syria and reflects the victory on the Syrian person
Tishreen Village
1974
NRThe events of the play deal with the reality of the Arab world in the seventies, where the events of the play revolve around a village called Ghorba ruled by Bey who enslaves citizens and robs them of their wealth and leaves them to suffer backwardness, to escalate events
Gherbah
1976
9.0Walid travels abroad in search of work opportunity and self actualization, after promising to return to his sweetheart Laila who is waiting for him back home.
Fish Without Spines
1978
NRAdel lives happily with his wife until he meets his ex-girlfriend, who works as a dancer. During her visit to his home, she faints and then he discovers that she has died. Adel is arrested and his wife is shocked, while his friend the police officer tries to find out the real killer.
The Memory of a Night of Love
1973