Wind On Demand
34 Episodes
WOD Wind On Demand
Wind On Demand / New films every month!
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Subscription video on demand (WOD) platform, for Syrian and Arab films. Designed as a result to the increasing need for films of reality which treats social, political, economic and climatic issues and its interrelated relations. In trying to empower the voice of independent filmmakers in the current historical dilemma, and to understand the contexts that have led to it, in the Arab world. It’s not an alternative medium to see movies, rather more archival platform. thus, please keep going to cinema theaters!
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Forgiveness has died!! Maze of survivors by Ammado
Episode 1
Forgiveness has died!! Maze of survivors A non-violent cultural intervention in the context of healing, which represents an approach to the Syrian disaster with opera book "Adriana Matre (Mother Adriana)" by the French-Lebanese writer Amin Maalouf, by placing three young Syrians under a new human...
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14:12Episode 2
Red Carpet by Twins Malas
Episode 2
The first film made by a theatrical actor Shakespearian is being accepted to participate in an international film festival. Then he starts to a have a struggle of repetitions, training how to walk properly on the red carpet.
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23:08Episode 3
Lights by Reem ALGHAZZI
Episode 3
Lots of hope and courage, and very little of everything else, that's how life is in a Syrian village in 2006. The filmmaker takes us there to allow a glance into the ordinary life of a Syrian family struggling against harsh conditions and trying to find a way out to the future, without lights.
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41:37Episode 4
Under A Sky by Yamen Abd Alnour
Episode 4
Many Syrian immigrants struggle every day trying to get used to the new home, the new land. Cairo is one of their hundreds new lands that welcomed them to find safety and security with good life conditions. In this Documentary movie, Syrians in Cairo talk about their inner conflicts towards their...
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16:37Episode 5
Fall by Youssef Abodan
Episode 5
The Elderly are trying to accept their presence in the -nursing home- by remembering their former lives that will not return.
Director of photography: Omar Doghouz
Sound: Ahmed tarabek
Editor: Mohamed Emad Rizk
Director: Yousef Abodan -
05:48Episode 6
Sira by Rolla Tahir
Episode 6
Sira is an experimental essay that traces the exodus of a Sudanese family from Kuwait as a result of the Iraqi invasion. Excavated footage disrupt constructed memories as a mother recounts the evacuation, marring the bliss of her new family.
Sira is produced as part of the MADVO Project, commissi... -
It's only three nails!! Saturn devouring son by Ahmad ALHAJ
Episode 7
Exploring the mechanism by which a man is transformed into a nail which has specific tasks, this short suggests that the contemporary Syrian is doomed by everlasting regulations that intersect with the values of social equity, injustice and tyranny.
Director, writer & producer: Ahmad ALHAJ
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15:55Episode 8
I'm not here by Yamen Abd Alnour
Episode 8
Hussam, a young Syrian man who has to leave his Homeland after the revolution, but lives in a state of anxiety for his family who remain there.
A film by: Yamen Abd Alnour
D.O.P : Amgad Reyad
Sound Eng : Robert Samir
Art Director : Ibrahim Ghareib
Editor : Domino Arafa
Sound mix : Hany Kamal
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16:32Episode 9
The Hook by Youssef Abodan
Episode 9
A musician lives in Cairo, trapped by his melody, apartment, and past.
A film by Yousef Abodan
Art Director : Mohamed El Salhy
Sound Designer : Ahmed Tarabek
Director Of Photography & Colorist : Azza Kalfat
Screenplay : Lilette Fahmy & Yousef Abodan
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14:25Episode 10
In between glass and walls by Razan Hassan
Episode 10
Anne couldn’t accept her own child Felix, who was born with Down syndrome. Anne tries to process her struggle through making theater with Sara, a 32-year-old woman with Down syndrome. Will it be possible for Anne to connect with her motherhood through her encounters with Sara?
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It's the only policy!! The bat by Ahmad ALHAJ
Episode 11
Denis, a man who loves household chores, has found himself isolated in a mountain house since the start of the first quarantine. His wife, Bénédicte, a doctor, chose to stay in Grenoble to support the medical body in the face of the Coronavirus epidemic. And I had turned into a bat. That in a way...
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29:55Episode 12
Mother Daughter by Eyas Almokdad
Episode 12
A 40-year old politician who fights against immigration, returns to the family house to take care of her elderly mother Hanna who suffers from Alzheimer’s disease. During her stay, she discovers a hidden side of her mother’s early history.
Director, Writer & Producer Eyas Almokdad
Cast Marijke P... -
19:46Episode 13
A'hwa by Rolla Tahir
Episode 13
Conversations about life, love and loss, naturally ensue between friends, old and new, over shisha and coffee. Generations reminisce about their shisha adventures, from underground shisha dens in Sudan, to the bustling shisha scene in Russia.
A Rolla Tahir film
Production smoking apples – Magic...
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15:50Episode 14
Beyond the sun by Yazan Rabee
Episode 14
Nader, a new prison guard comes to do his obligatory military service in one of the Syrian detentions. Nader sees the inhumane torturing of his colleague to detainee. Nader refuses his officer’s command to take part in torturing the detainee, but his officer, Abu Hanan, doesn’t like how Nader res...
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20:00Episode 15
would you play it again by Ammar Obied
Episode 15
Mudar is a Syrian actor, flew to Germany by a visa from Beirut, he researches refugee’s journeys who came walking on their feet, for his theatre play and explores the real experiences that immigrants lived throughout their road. After his meeting with a Syrian filmmaker Ammar Obeid, Mudar wants t...
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15:00Episode 16
Little Ella by Diana Kadah
Episode 16
A six-year-old girl affected by her parent’s divorce, this led to her aggressive behavior. She discovers that her dad is a drug-addict of a DJ incapable of being a parent to his only child. She also learns that her father has chosen his friend to replace him as her dad.
Cast Miral Al Hasson, Jos...
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1:04:29Episode 17
The way home by Wael Kadlo
Episode 17
Through his quest to better understand the shredded state of his family, Wael questions the long-lasting socio-political crisis in Syria. In 1980, I was born in Syria coinciding with the launch of a project aiming to build an international highway only a few meters away from my house – a bridge t...
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14:00Episode 18
Olive Planet by Shehab Fatoum
Episode 18
the boy Jihad lives in his father’s cage, who is lieutenant colonel at the olive military. Jihad must also go to a military academy, but his dream is to become a footballer. The Uprising, which is taking place on the Olive Planet, arrives in the city Taubez, where they live. Jihad decided to stan...
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Searching for Abbas Kiarostami by Malas Twins
Episode 19
A Syrian man carries a large photo of the Iranian director Abbas Kiarostami and wanders in the streets of Paris to ask the passers-by his address. He wants him to talk about the Syrian revolution to his government. He heads to the Iranian embassy, subways and coffee shops but gets no answer.
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19:00Episode 20
Seiran by Alaa Arabi Katbi
Episode 20
A film by Alaa Arabi Katbi
Image Emad Arabi Katbi
Story Mudar Alhajji -
04:15Episode 21
Crack by Reem Alghazzi
Episode 21
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17:27Episode 22
Broken Cadre by Abdullah Altaweel
Episode 22
Khaled has lost his two legs due to an explosion during the events of the Syrian war in Homs city countryside and is living now in Tripoli city (the twin city of Homs) in North Lebanon as he was smuggled to receive medical surgery, and follow-up. We witness the story of Khaled after the loss and ...
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11:03Episode 23
Déraciné by Rolla Tahir
Episode 23
A portrait of a father and daughter in transience.
Leading a simple life, a father and daughter's quiet routine is disrupted, sending their lives into upheaval. Helpless in the face of her father's looming deportation, Jude, the daughter, is unsure as to how to move on alone.
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28:25Episode 24
Memory is a dying horse by Samer Najari
Episode 24
Trying to freeze time is an illusion. Whatever we do, life unfolds in one direction. Memory is a dying horse is yet another desperate attempt to challenge the irreversibility of time. A sparse, raw, somehow childish collage of reminiscences filmed on Super 8 between Syria, France and Canada. The ...