Azouz Adae — Filmmaker, researcher, storyteller

Films

Return in Fragments

feature documentary · in progress

Two returning twin brothers waiting for the last impossible road to their mother, run into a returning filmmaker trying to recognise home.

Syria, 2025. Two brothers who can’t yet go home to Raqqa and a filmmaker who no longer knows his own streets walk together through Homs, share stories about home, estrangement, and the fluid self identity through it. Down a long stretched road to an empty town, across vast empty terrain where serenity might explode when someone steps on one, as they negotiate a path to the river.

A work in progress
A 27-minute cut premiered at Eyes on IDFA as a master’s graduation work, July 2025.

Dusk over a hillside city, pink sky, a church dome and rooftop solar panels in haze.

A man stands by a shell-scarred pillar in front of rubble and ruined buildings.

A man in a dark jacket walks away down a narrow stone alley, out of focus.

In a crowd, a veiled woman holds up a framed portrait of an older man.

A man holds a cigarette near his face in a stone-walled café, eyes turned aside. — A moment of remembering

Two men in the front and back seats of a car at night, the dome light on. — The twin, estranged

A man reaches toward the camera inside a dark car while someone behind him films with a phone. — Agency

A tank raises dust on a track across golden wheat fields. — The steel in bare fields

A man in a shearling jacket stands on a busy street, hand on hip. The subtitle reads: Someone in-between.

Anamnesis

2021 · short film · screened at EMAF · final cut in progress

A missed train. A night in Berlin. A city remembered through images projected onto hands.

A missed train to Paris becomes a night in Berlin, which becomes a New Year’s statement, which gradually becomes a thesis on memory in the German landscape. A dreamlike short, built from mixed media and images projected onto hands.