My name is Ayham Bakkar. I am 19 years old and was born in Aleppo, Syria. I have been living in Germany for about two years. In 2016, I was already part of the KINO ASYL team, and I’m very happy to be part of this great project again this year. It gives me the opportunity to show a German audience what the situation in Syria is like right now and why we had to leave the country.
Dozens of migrants board an overcrowded truck. Their destination: Fortress Europe. After a arduous journey, when they finally arrive, they face a confrontation with a different brutal reality: Europe’s treatment of refugees.
In the film “Documenters,” the Syrian actor Jihad Abdo plays the role of the hero. The film focuses on the events surrounding the Syrian crisis. Activists want to show the world what is happening in Syria through web videos. But then the government bans the publication of these videos…
In Beirut, Syrian workers help build tall skyscrapers. Unlike in their destroyed homeland, the war in neighboring Lebanon is over and new buildings are being constructed. However, every night the construction sites are locked down because the government has imposed a curfew from 7 p.m. for all refugees.
The Syrian refugee Fareed wants to bury his deceased wife according to Muslim customs and struggles against bureaucracy and narrow-mindedness in a Swiss village.
