Sawsan Arsheed

Recently immigrated to France from Syria, Ghaydaa is preparing for a special day: It is the first return of her son Shahin in France, but the separation between mother and son is proving more difficult than she thought.

It is winter in Damascus. Sana, with her eight-year-old son, is living alone while her husband works in Saudi Arabia. When Sana runs out of gas to cook or warm the house, she takes a day off to find a gas cylinder. From there begins a trip into the surroundings of Damas, where Sana finds herself brutally confronted with the effects of war.

Based on the idea of ​​reincarnation, the work tells the story of Ahed, a young man who works in the pottery industry and lives in a village in northern Palestine with his family, where he is haunted by obsessions and memories from another life in another place.

A Syrian exile living in Australia returns when his brother is taken into custody by the Assad regime in 2011.

When a popular doctor takes his own life, leaving behind a video will and a series of films of his life, everyone who knew him is forced to reassess their own life, creating a mirror of contemporary Syrian society.