Rami Farah is a Syrian dancer, actor and filmmaker born in Damascus,1980. He first studied dance in Damascus at the High Institute for Dramatic Arts and his first films and videos blend dance and audiovisual material. After graduating from The Arab Film Institute in 2007, Rami made a 35-minute documentary entitled “Silence”, which tells stories of coerced exile after the Israeli occupation of Golan Heights in the 1960s. As a son of exiled parents who now finds himself in exile as well, Farah is a self-proclaimed “exile expert”, and throughout his oeuvre, and across art forms, themes of belonging and displacement recur. These preoccupations are perhaps most pronounced in Farah’s first feature-length documentary “A Comedian in a Syrian Tragedy” (2019) that sees Farah follow his beloved subject, famous Syrian actor Fares Helou, into exile in France, and in Farah’s most recent work “Our Memory Belongs To Us” (2021)