My Memory is Full of Ghosts

My Memory Is Full of Ghosts

Syria, 2024
75 minutes, Arabic with English subtitles

Like a visual lament, the film My Memory Is Full of Ghosts explores a reality caught between the past, present, and future in the city of Homs, Syria. Behind a self-portrait of exhausted inhabitants searching for normal life, the film captures truths from those who stayed and those who returned to a city changed forever.

The memories of a city haunted by destruction, deformation, and loss emerge.

Through patient reflections and static visual compositions, the film reveals how war reshapes place and weaves memory. The voices of residents, heard off-camera, bring a ghostly presence and reflect a community struggling with a haunted past while cautiously rebuilding life amid the ruins of the present.

The film premiered at the International Festival Vision du Réel, receiving a special mention. It also won the Best Arab Documentary Award at the El Gouna Film Festival in Egypt and Best Film at the Syrian Documentary Film Days in Denmark.

The film is followed by a special conversation with its director, Anas Zawahreh, originally from Syria and currently in residence at MMAG.

Anas Zawahreh: Filmmaker, editor, and independent producer. Born in 1987, Palestinian nationality, residing in Syria. Graduated as an assistant engineer in decoration and interior design in 2009. Has led numerous cinema workshops and teaches cinema at the Higher Institute of Dramatic Arts – Department of Theatrical Studies. In 2025, selected to participate in the Berlin Talents program. In 2024, completed his first feature-length documentary My Memory Is Full of Ghosts, which won several awards at international festivals. He also directed the short fiction film A Very Ordinary Day (2020) and the short documentary Summer, City and Camera (2022). He is currently developing a project about forcibly disappeared persons in the Syrian war.