Photograph: Yasmin Fedda

 

Ayouni

(2020)

Director: Yasmin Fedda.
Producers: Hugh Hartford & Elhum Shakerifar
Score and sound design: James Bulley
A co-production with Banyak Films & Hakawati

Supported by SANAD, Cap Kuwait, Amnesty International and BFI Vision Award
Working closely with #FREEBASSEL campaign and Families For Freedom

Noura and Machi search for answers about their loved ones – Bassel Safadi and Paolo Dall’Oglio, who are among the over 100,000 forcibly disappeared in Syria. Faced with the limbo of an overwhelming absence of information, hope is the only thing they have to hold on to. ‘Ayouni’ is a deeply resonant Arabic term ofendearment - meaning ‘my eyes’ and understood as ‘my love’. Filmed over 6 years and across multiple countries in search of answers, Ayouni is an attempt to give numbers faces, to give silence a voice, and to make the invisible undeniably visible.

For more information, please visit: http://www.ayounifilm.com

“a powerful and urgent documentary tribute to those who have been “forcibly disappeared” by the Assad regime
★★★★”
— Peter Bradshaw, The Guardian
“Compelling and empowering
★★★★”
— The Upcoming