Reem Al-Ghazzi

Biography

Reem Al-Ghazzi is a Syrian artist and documentary filmmaker from Damascus. She has directed and produced several short documentaries individually and as part of collectives. Her films have received awards at the Casablanca and Alexandria International Film Festivals, and have been screened at the Cinéma du réel in Paris and the Locarno International Film Festival. Al-Ghazzi has also published several articles and texts in Arabic newspapers. In 2010, she established the Stories Film Lab, a series of documentary workshops held across Syria. Becoming Iphigenia is her debut feature. The director won the Samira Al-Khalil award in Paris in March 2023 “in recognition of her cinematographic work, the courage of her artistic approaches, her influence on society, and her commitment to narrate the memory of the invisible Syrians”.