Disappeared (Working Title)

Original Title: مُختفي (اسم مؤقت)

Runtime: 90'

Expected Release: 2027

Production Stage: Early production

1st Feature: No

Looking for: Funding, Development workshops, Potential partners, like producers, supporting institutes, distributors, and sales managers

Synopsis:

Five women from Rif Dimashq confront the disappearance of husbands and sons, resisting the erasure of memory. Through everyday acts—repairing homes, sewing, raising grandchildren, planting, recording dreams—they transform grief into resilience and testimony into resistance. The film follows their search for truth, showing how they rebuild meaning, preserve memory, and give form to absence in a fractured reality.

Director’s Profile:

Anas Zawahri is a Palestinian independent filmmaker, editor and producer based in Syria. Born in 1987, he graduated in 2009 with a degree in engineering, specializing in interior design and decoration. After working as an assistant in the field, he shifted his focus to filmmaking, developing his practice by attending a series of workshops. His first feature documentary My Memory is Full of Ghosts (2024) received a special mention at the Visions du Réel festival and the Best Arab Documentary Award at the El Gouna Film Festival in 2024. He was selected to participate in the Berlinale Talents program in 2026.
Anas previously directed the short fiction film An Ordinary Day (2020) and the short documentary Summer, City and a Camera (2022).

 

Producer’s Profile:

Ahmad Alhaj was born in Syria in 1990, he is a filmmaker, producer, distributor, juror, programmer, and the founder of Wind Cinema. He writes for several cultural websites and magazines in the Arab region and supervises film programs in different parts of the world as well as online. He received two diplomas from the Financial Institute and the Faculty of Law in Syria, in addition to a diploma in Literature and Languages, and another diploma in Performing Arts, Cinema, Theater, and Dance from Grenoble Alpes University in France.