‘Ladder to Damascus’ Screening at Ayam Beirut Al Cinema’iya Arab Film Festival 2015

Since 2001, Ayam Beirut Al Cinema’iya has promoted Independent Lebanese and Arab films, and encouraged young talents to lend their imagination to the big screen.

This unique Arab film festival brings together over 200 professionals and students from Lebanon and the region, in addition to international professionals and stars. In additions to films, the festival hosts many workshops, roundtables and networking sessions.

About the Movie
Ghalia moves to Damascus to study acting and rents a room in a traditional community house where other young Syrians from different regions also live. She meets Fouad, an aspiring filmmaker fascinated by her ambiguity. Their love story blossoms within the house while the Syrian revolution rise in the streets outside.

About the Director
Born in 1945 in the town of Quneitra in the Golan, Mohamad Malas represents, like no other, the Syrian auteur Cinema. Among his most important films are Dreams of the City (1983), The Night (1992), and Passion (2005).