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Through memory and body, five Syrian women live with the ghosts of their forcibly disappeared sons, performing simple daily actions to keep their memory alive.
After their husbands and sons are forcibly disappeared, five women from the Rif Dimashq Governorate resist the erasure of their memory in both social and political spaces. Amid unbearable loss and an unceasing search for truth, each woman follows her own path, tracing the absence of loved ones taken from them. Their paths unfold through daily acts: repairing a home, stitching fabric, raising grandchildren, planting trees and recording dreams. These simple routines become rituals of survival, where mourning is reshaped into movement and testimony into resistance. The film accompanies the women through their search and daily lives, bearing witness to how meaning is reconstructed amid persistent ruin. In a reality that has lost coherence, their actions stand as human markers—giving form to absence, restoring confiscated truth and keeping memory alive.

Credits

Director
Anas zawahri
Screenwriter
Salwa Arsalan
Producer
Ahmad Al-Haj
Production Company
Wind cinéma

About the Director

Anas Zawahri
Anas Zawahri is an independent Palestinian filmmaker, editor and producer based in Syria, born in 1987. Initially trained in engineering, specialising in decoration and interior design, he transitioned to cinema through extensive workshops and practical experience. His first feature documentary, ‘My Memory Is Full of Ghosts’ (2024), received a Special Mention at Visions du Réel and won Best Arab D

Producers

Ahmad Alhaj
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