Little Syria
A documentary by Madalina Rosca and Reem Karssli
A story of unlikely quests. A search for the disappeared through rubble and tortured bodies, a race for survival, and the possibility of hope.
Filmed over the course of 20 years in Syria and Germany, as well as in Turkey, Greece, Poland, Hungary, France and Spain.
Little Syria follows the quest of a brother, his sister and her boyfriend, trapped between a Syria from which they ran for their lives, and a Europe which seems at times to embrace them and at others to push them back.
In the time of making of this film, more than 14 million Syrians have been forced to leave their homes. Syrians asked for asylum in more than 130 countries.
Reem, Mohammed and Yasser try to make sense of what is left of the Syrian Revolution. Little Syria is a confidential insight into the invisible lives of Syrian refugees.
Edited by MADALINA ROSCA, REEM KARSSLI
Music by ANDREI KIVU
Artworks NAJAH AL-BUKAI
Filmed by REEM KARSSLI, DAVID SIMON GROSS
Production Manager LAURENTIU BRATAN
Colourist ANDU RADU
Sound Design MIHNEA CIULEI
Produced by PAUL ARNE WAGNER, MADALINA ROSCA
A MAKE A POINT Production
A Documentary by MADALINA ROSCA, REEM KARSSLI
“In order to stay in power, they ripped the country to pieces, into its constituent parts. You can’t even hide underground.”
Tobias Schneider, author of Nowhere to Hide on the use of chemical weapons in Syria
The people living in Europe’s Little Syria try to find the missing and the dead, and bring the responsible for torture and killing to justice. This, in the hostile climate of a constant rise of the far right.
Watch the Official Trailer
LITTLE SYRIA premieres in the Human Rights Competition of CPH:DOX 2025 (19-30 of March 2025).
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