Liwaa Yazji
Writing
Biography
Syrian filmmaker, actress, and poet born in Damascus on June 18. She obtained a Postgraduate Diploma in English Language from Damascus University and graduated from the Higher Institute of Dramatic Arts, Department of Dramatic Studies, where she was a dramaturge of several performances there. She has several contributions in the fields of critical writing, translation, screenwriting and directing. She made her directorial debut with the documentary Haunted (2014) which was screened at many international festivals, such as Dubai International Film Festival.
Known For
The story opens with the murder of businessman Faisal Muthanna, ruled a homicide likely perpetrated by someone who wanted to rob him of his wealth. Elsewhere, Samir, a despairing tailor and taxi driver, reunites with his friend Yazen after years of war separated them.
Unknown Culprit
The film tells of a poor citizen whose wife died and has five children, three love to sing and play and work in parties, one learns and loves a rich girl, and the other works with his father in selling watermelon, they are surprised by the relationship of their father to the maid who works with them, things go wrong and some object
September Rain
Syria. Among the ravages of war, there is also this more discreet yet vital phenomenon: exile. Leave, stay? A question Liwaa Jazji tackles. The place of this tearing apart of the self to the self will be the house as a physical space, as a place of memory of gestures and bodies, as the receptacle of our familiar objects.
Haunted
The inhabitants of a city awake one morning to find that never-before-seen trees, plants, and flowers suddenly erupted throughout the streets and in the squares. Strange and mysterious events start taking place as Camelia and Nahla investigate the origins of these new and peculiar creatures.