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 am very happy to be part of this great project again this year. It gives me the chance to show a German audience what the situation in Syria is like at the moment and why we had to leave the country.
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.
