Ibrahim Yesilbas

Jwan has escaped from the war in Syria and come to Turkey. In the daytime he works at a clothing store and during rest of his daily life he writes scripts. He wants to be a film-director. With an old camera in his hand, he makes conversations with them who come from Syria and trains his camera on them. People share their own dramas, disappointments, hopes and hopelessness with Jwan.

When two people from two different cultures meet face to face in Berlin.

An elderly care agency in Germany assigns Khalil, a Kurdish Syrian immigrant, to care for a lonely German woman in her home in Essen; he finds himself submerged in his mother’s voice recordings coming via WhatsApp from the mountains of Afrin, as she describes the details of making 'Makdous' and her insistence on finding a way to send it to him despite the wartime siege.