Meyar Al Roumi

Round Trip

Meyar Al Roumi

Ammar Haj Ahmad, Alexandra Kahwagi

For Walid, a taxi driver in Damascus, the only place he can steal a private kiss with his love, Suhair, is in his car. When Suhair is invited by her friend to visit Tehran, she and Walid together board a train from the Syrian capital to Tehran. As they follow the stunning scenery captured beautifully on film, Walid and Suhair finally have an opportunity to get to know each other outside of his taxi…

The 1,001 Faces of Palmyra

Meyar Al Roumi

For the first time archaeologists from around the world come together in search of funerary sculpted portraits of Palmyra disseminated around the world to recount the story of the ancient city in a way that has never been done before: through the faces of the city’s inhabitants. The exploration of the inner secrets of these sculptures retraces the origin of the city’s commercial success, its unique language and specific writing, its environment that mixes Eastern and Western influences gradually revealing the city’s multiculturalism and the fascination aroused by the city throughout the centuries.

Les visages oubliés de Palmyre

Meyar Al Roumi

Patrick Delage

Two thousand years ago, it was a flourishing city in the middle of what is now a Syrian desert. At the crossroads of trade routes, Palmyra attracted caravanners from Mesopotamia, India and China. In what remains of its ruins, rediscovered by Europeans in the 17th century, its numerous necropolises bear witness to a prosperous past. Carved in limestone in the first centuries of our era, the faces of the representatives - men, women and children - of its greatest families adorn the walls of its tombs. Since 2012, Danish archaeologist Rubina Raja has been leading a long-term project to find, document and retrace the family trees and daily life of these Palmyrenians.