AYOUNI

By Yasmin FEDDA

BANYAK FILMS - as PROD

Documentary - Completed 2020

The families of two missing civilian activists in Syria speak out in a film, which uses words to give the invisible victims of the war a face.

Festivals
& Awards

CPH:DOX 2020
F:ACT AWARD Competition
cph dox 2020
FACT Award
MENF Firenze 2020
    • Year of production
    • 2020
    • Genres
    • Documentary
    • Countries
    • UNITED KINGDOM
    • Languages
    • ARABIC, ENGLISH, ITALIAN
    • Budget
    • 0 - 0.3 M$
    • Duration
    • 75 mn
    • Director(s)
    • Yasmin FEDDA
    • Producer(s)
    • Hugh HARTFORD (Banyak Films), Elhum SHAKERIFAR (Hakawati)
    • Synopsis
    • 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 of endearment - 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.