Directing
Reem Al-Ghazzi
Place of birth
Damascus, Syria
Known for
Directing
Credits
5 titles
Reem Al-Ghazzi is a Syrian artist and documentary filmmaker from Damascus. She has directed and produced several short documentaries individually and as part of collectives. Her films have received awards at the Casablanca and Alexandria International Film Festivals, and have been screened at the Cinéma du réel in Paris and the Locarno International Film Festival. Al-Ghazzi has also published several articles and texts in Arabic newspapers. In 2010, she established the Stories Film Lab, a series of documentary workshops held across Syria. Becoming Iphigenia is her debut feature. The director won the Samira Al-Khalil award in Paris in March 2023 “in recognition of her cinematographic work, th…
Known for
NRA smuggled camera slips into the heart of Hama. Amid hidden faces and disguised voices, one woman stands unmasked: Fidaa Al Hourani: doctor and activist. In the first broadcast film about the Syrian revolution, she risks her life to speak.
Smuggling 23 Minutes of Revolution
2011
NRBecoming Iphigenia is a feature-length documentary that traces the fortunes of a group of young Syrian women in Germany who hail from different walks of life and different communities in Syria. Brought together on stage at the Volksbühne in Berlin for roles in a modern adaptation of Euripides’ Iphigenia (written by playwright Mohammad al-Attar and directed by Omar Abusaada), as they rehearse the production they realize that the pain and threat of death they fled remains with them. Can they free themselves from the past, family, society, and ultimately themselves?
Becoming Iphigenia
2023
A subtle portrait of an elderly tailor who, following the arrest of his favorite son feels strongly disappointed by life and by the general “cruelty of people”. As a consequence, he has chosen to withdraw into a world of his own and keeps social interaction to an absolute minimum.
Crack
2007
Portrays a family in a remote village in the Jabal ‘Arouda region and lets its members voice their daily grievances. - Charlotte Bank
Lights
2009
Behind the camera
NRA smuggled camera slips into the heart of Hama. Amid hidden faces and disguised voices, one woman stands unmasked: Fidaa Al Hourani: doctor and activist. In the first broadcast film about the Syrian revolution, she risks her life to speak.
Smuggling 23 Minutes of Revolution
2011
NRA smuggled camera slips into the heart of Hama. Amid hidden faces and disguised voices, one woman stands unmasked: Fidaa Al Hourani: doctor and activist. In the first broadcast film about the Syrian revolution, she risks her life to speak.
Smuggling 23 Minutes of Revolution
2011
NRBecoming Iphigenia is a feature-length documentary that traces the fortunes of a group of young Syrian women in Germany who hail from different walks of life and different communities in Syria. Brought together on stage at the Volksbühne in Berlin for roles in a modern adaptation of Euripides’ Iphigenia (written by playwright Mohammad al-Attar and directed by Omar Abusaada), as they rehearse the production they realize that the pain and threat of death they fled remains with them. Can they free themselves from the past, family, society, and ultimately themselves?
Becoming Iphigenia
2023
A subtle portrait of an elderly tailor who, following the arrest of his favorite son feels strongly disappointed by life and by the general “cruelty of people”. As a consequence, he has chosen to withdraw into a world of his own and keeps social interaction to an absolute minimum.
Crack
2007
Portrays a family in a remote village in the Jabal ‘Arouda region and lets its members voice their daily grievances. - Charlotte Bank
Lights
2009