Family Crisis

Plot: Family Crisis / Azma A'iliya (2017) is a Syrian comedy-drama set against the backdrop of the country's turbulent political climate. A father finds his old values challenged by the chaos around him, a wife obsessed with emigrating abroad, and university-educated children who turn the house into a laboratory for their scientific experiments. The collision of generational attitudes, ambition and survival instincts in one household drives the comedy and drama.