A tenacious mother in a Damascus apartment tries to keep her charges safe as rockets and thugs threaten violence in this well-intentioned but crudely melodramatic story. A mother of three tries to ...

Paris-based Palestinian actress and director Hiam Abbas is one of the few Arab talents who stars regularly in American movies. She has worked with Steven Spielberg, Ridley Scott, Tom McCarthy, and Jim ...

Eight years on from his directorial debut in the hard hitting The Day God Walked Away, Philippe Van Leeuw turns his hand to another violent environment in his fictional film about life in contemporary ...

French-Belgian produced drama Insyriated, which is set in Syria, has been awarded the Europa Cinemas Berlinale label after being named the Best European Film in the fest’s Panorama sidebar. The film, ...

film profile], the second feature by Philippe van Leeuw, has won the Europa Cinemas Label as the best European film in the Panorama section of the 67 th Berlin Film Festival. Comprising four ...

Simply sign up to the Life & Arts myFT Digest -- delivered directly to your inbox. What’s with the title of Insyriated? Is it a pun on “incinerated”? If not, what exactly? The film, though set in the ...

The film from Belgian director Philippe van Leeuw is a tale of a Syrian household under siege. By Scott Roxborough Insyriated, Philippe van Leeuw’s drama about a Syrian family caught in its home while ...

THE horrors of Syria are brought to life vividly in Insyriated, a tense drama that unfolds in one day in one flat. INSYRIATED (Cert 15; 86mins) Oum Yazan (Hiam Abbass) and her family are the last ...

Frantic matriarch Oum Yazan (the unrivalled Hiam Abbass) is trying desperately to maintain some semblance of normal family life. Her Damascus apartment is crowded out by her extended family and ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Paris-based Palestinian actress and director Hiam Abbas is one of the few Arab talents who stars regularly in American movies. She ...

Its title makes it sound more like an excruciating muscle spasm, but Insyriated is a wartime drama that offers a different kind of pain. Gruelling and occasionally overwrought, though largely gripping ...