The jury has chosen to support seven film screening tours that will travel across several Syrian cities and rural areas, presenting diverse programmes of Syrian films produced over the past decade, as well as earlier Syrian films that Syrian audiences have not previously had the opportunity to watch.

When the noise stops, before the last body is buried, when the cameras leave, and the world turns its face away, something else persists. It seeps. It flows. It endures. Something we don’t film, because we don’t know how to film it.