EXCLUSIVE: France’s Montpellier Mediterranean Film Festival, also known as Cinemed , has unveiled a major focus on young Syrian cinema across its 15-year conflict for its upcoming 47th edition which kicks off next week.

It marks one of first major retrospectives devoted to Syrian cinema as the country attempts to rebuild following the ousting of President Bashar Al-Assad in December 2024, after more than a decade of deadly armed conflict initially sparked by his suppression of the 2011 pro-democracy protests.

The two-day focus will gather some 20 feature-length and short works made by young, mainly exiled Syrian filmmakers about their country during the conflict years.

Fiction features include Meyar Roumi’s 2023 feature The Return , about a Syrian historian living in exile in Mars

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