Ahmed Rafea
Acting
Known For

Taking place in the Thieves' Market located in the Syrian capital, Damascus, the events deal with a number of stories dealing with counterfeiting currencies, drug trafficking, and others.
Kanoon

A romantic drama about a girl who has kept her love for someone a secret for more than ten years and then decides to tell him in her own way, but what happens next?
Diaries of an Ex-Lover

The series revolves around a poor man who wants to get rich. As he has a dream that he has found a treasure, his social status changes as he goes out every night to abandoned areas and begins digging and goes home by day to rest.
A Hero From This Time

The events take place in the 1940s, after Nouri leaves prison, a major conflict arises between him and Abu Adnan, coinciding with the assassination of the doctor, Abdul Rahman Al Shahbandar.
My Family's House

The Arab world's most beloved rogue is back. In this long-awaited return, Duraid Lahham resurrects his iconic Ghawar Tawasha — this time wrongly accused of murdering his wife and thrown behind bars for decades. Upon his release, he walks into a Syria grappling with the harsh economic realities of the nineties, determined to find his daughter and prove his innocence. Equal parts comedy and drama, it's warm, funny, and quietly heartbreaking — a homecoming worth waiting for.
Return of Ghawar
The Syrian series *Hay Al-Mazar* unfolds within a social framework that reflects the daily lives of the residents of Hay Al-Mazar. It explores various humanitarian and social issues, including family relationships, class struggles, and the challenges faced by characters in a rapidly changing environment.
Al-Mazar neighborhood

A socio-political series which highlights the horrific events that accompanied Operation “Defensive Shield” in 2002 when the Israeli army invaded Palestinian cities
The Invasion

The series revolves around the biography of the late poet Nizar Qabbani, and the series tells the story of the life of this poet, including that he was born in Syria and married twice and worked in the diplomatic corps.
Nizar Qabbani

The series follows the family of Al-Mallah and Khaldun: the former enjoys great influence, while the other belongs to a downtrodden class. The spark of the story erupts with Khaldun’s desire to rob the Al-Mallah family, which turns the matter into a war between them and a settling of scores about the shared past and present that unites them.
Wasaya Al Sabbar

It follows young housemates navigating unemployment, money pressures, and social media illusions, blending satire and emotion to portray a generation’s real-life struggles and dreams.
House of Dreams

In a mountain village called Kfaroun, Wadud works as a janitor in the school, where he has loving relationships with the young students. But his mother Sukhur demands that he avenge his father's killer and objects him marrying his fiancée. While Noor, the spoiled city girl is the new school teacher.
Kafrun

Adel is from an aristocratic family that lives in Syria during the French occupation, his culture forced him to rebel against his family, and descend to the bottom of society wishing to change his life, he got to know this society and loved him, but he became torn between his culture, and his aristocratic origins.
The Sun on a Cloudy Day

The film is about a dreamy girl who belongs to a middle class family. She is dominated by her father who is characterized by severe authority, goodness and tenderness, by conservatism and liberalism. The family lives in a heterogeneous quarter with contradictions among its inhabitants.
Dreamy Visions

Four political activists friends are arrested by the repressive regime in Syria in the 1970s and spend twenty years in detention, three of them are released, and the fourth remains. The three friends are shocked by the huge changes they found in society, while showing the hardships their fourth comrade faces in prison.
The Long Night

The events take place inside a restaurant, where a group of people meet, and strange situations happen to them, which put them in a difficult test, between moments of fear, rivalry and closeness.
Casi Rose

The autobiography of a film director who grows up in a small town then leaves for the city to finish his studies. When he became famous, he decided to make a film about his upbringing in the village based on his childhood memories.
The Lover

An introverted former broadcaster chooses to detach himself from the overwhelming situation his country is going through, but the news of his daughter getting besieged in Aleppo break through his shield. A portrayal of the fragile and voluntary detachment as a coping mechanism with war and trauma.
Damascus... Aleppo
The story revolves around Wael (Hatem Ali), who is involved in a taxi accident after moving to Latakia to escape something, and as a result, he loses his memory. During his stay in the hospital, Wael meets Dr. Hanan (Farah Bseiso). The plot unfolds in a suspenseful manner as his family searches for him while he begins a new life with a different identity, attempting to recover his lost memory.
Person X

A traveler between two countries metaphorically named "Easternstan" and "Westernstan" loses his passport and identity papers. Stuck between the two countries he can neither cross the frontiers nor get back to where he came from. He's forced to camp in the neutral area between the two countries, facing a lot of funny situations while there. The movie satirizes the ideology of Arab unity and cooperation at the state level.
The Borders

The film talks about the resistance in Palestine against the Zionist occupation, by addressing a family from the West Bank, at the end of the eighties of the last century, that is, during the period of the Intifada.