Movies: Adnan Barakat

The Yazerli is the foreman who provides work to day laborers. The film’s poetic, non-narrative structure simulates the fractured thoughts of a young boy who is forced to leave school and find work on the docks. Using minimal dialogue but evocative mu...

Based on the famous story, “Sa’ay El Bareed La Yaduq Babek Maratein” (The Postman Doesn’t Knock Twice), an adventurer escapes from danger by hiding in a small motel along the road. The motel is owned by an old, miserly man who is married to a young b...

A beautiful girl falls in love with a simple employee and surrenders herself to him, only to discover that he doesn't love her as he forsakes her. When her brother finds out what happened, he decides to take revenge on him and chases him everywhere....

A plastic artist suffers from extreme poverty. His friend convinces him to fake suicide so that he can become famous as a genius artist and sell his paintings. It turns out that this friend is trying to seize his paintings and his lover. The artist d...

The story of the film within the Abu Asaad family revolves around the inheritance of three brothers in the city of Hama in central Syria, but severe disagreements arise between them over how to divide this inheritance....