Anas Zawahri
Directing
Biography
An independent Palestinian filmmaker, editor, and producer living in Syria, born in 1987. He graduated in engineering, specializing in decoration and interior design, in 2009. After that, he worked as an assistant engineer in his field of study, then shifted to filmmaking, developing his practice through many cinema workshops. His first feature documentary film, “My Memory is Full of Ghosts,” received a Special Mention at the “Visions du Réel” festival, in addition to the Best Arab Documentary Film award at the El-Gouna Film Festival in 2024. In 2025, he was selected to participate in Berlinale Talents. He directed the short fiction film “An Ordinary Day” in 2020 and the short documentary “Summer, City and Camera” in 2022. Since 2023, he has been a cinema teacher at the High Institute of Dramatic Arts, Department of Theater Studies, and he is currently working on many promising Syrian film projects. He is also working on his second feature documentary film, "Disappeared," which was recently supported by AFAC, Aflamuna, and CineGuna at the El-Gouna Film Festival.
Known For
Like a visual elegy, My Memory Is Full of Ghosts explores a reality caught between past, present and future in Homs, Syria. Behind the self-portrait of an exsanguinated population in search of normality emerge memories of the city, haunted by destruction, disfigurement and loss. A deeply moving film, a painful echo of the absurdity of war and the strength of human beings.
My Memory Is Full of Ghosts
Summer 2021, in Damascus city, some young emerging directors roamed the city's streets to follow their dreams and shoot their first movies with the simplest available tools. so, the city would open her arms and hug them day and night with her streets and neighborhoods.
Summer, City and a Camera
The confusion, fatigue, and exhaustion of a twenty-year-old girl were evident when she recently moved into a new, empty house to live in.
A GIRL WITH HER NEW WALL
An experimental short film
Silence
Summer 2018 in Damascus, An ordinary day to "Abu Firas" who is a taxi driver, suffers from various pressures. In this day, many customers from different ages and social classes take his car. And with every customer who gets in it, "Abu Firas" tries to win his sympathy by making some painful stories about himself, to make more money from them. And each time his customers' reactions differ according to their backgrounds. Until this method cause to "Abu Firas" a strong shock at the end of his day
An Ordinary Day
Stuck in a cycle of grief, a young woman continually relives her memories of a ruptured life. Detaching from her past is the only way to break the cycle and be reborn.
Half Light
An experimental short film