Syria Justice (working title)

Justice is universal, but it can also be personal. After more than a decade of brutal mass killings, torture, siege, detention, and forced disappearances, Syrian activists and lawyers are leading the challenge to bring the Bashar Al-Assad regime to justice.

After 14 years of brutal repression marked by mass murder, torture, and starvation sieges, the Assad regime finally collapsed on December 8, 2024. But the quest for justice and accountability is only just beginning. Syria Justice follows Syrian legal groups including the Huquqyat investigation team—a fearless group of Syrian women lawyers and justice seekers—as they return to Syria for the first time in years. Our cameras capture their groundbreaking work amid the ruins of Al-Yarmouk Camp and other devastated neighborhoods, confronting the legacy of the regime’s siege tactics.

Through this work we meet Mariana Karkoutly, co-founder of Huquqyat, who has dedicated years to building legal cases from their Berlin base. Through smuggled documents and survivor testimonies obtained at great risk, she and her team piece together the regime’s systematic use of starvation as a weapon of war.

With unprecedented access, our cameras follow the team as they traverse checkpoints and neighborhoods once sealed off by Assad’s forces—walking the same paths where civilians endured blockade, starvation, and bombing. They gather vital evidence to expose what happened, who was responsible, and to lay the groundwork for legal justice.

In addition, we are tracking the groundbreaking work of Syrian-led organizations such as Syria Justice and Accountability (SJAC) and others that are fighting to ensure that the new Syria includes true justice.

This film captures a critical turning point: the fall of a brutal regime and the fragile, determined pursuit of accountability. Few documentaries offer this level of access or focus on the intersection of frontline investigation and legal strategy to challenge entrenched power in Syria. Through intimate, unflinching portraits, Syria Justice reveals the resilience of those who refuse to be silenced—and the hope that justice, long denied, may finally be within reach.

Produced by MIRA & MIRA Europe, the film is currently in production. Research was conducted in late 2021 and throughout 2022 and 2023. We have established our main themes and identified our lead protagonists and crew and created strong relationships with expert advisors. We are following and filming court cases, as well as documenting the groundbreaking research and investigations of our protagonists. We project a release in 2026. 

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