Marya Zarif & André Kadi, 72 minutes, Animation/Family, Arabic with English subtitles, 2023, France. 

Six-year-old Dounia is forced to leave her home in Aleppo after her father is taken away in the middle of the night. Together with her kindly, cultured grandparents and the guiding spirit of the Princess of Aleppo – a character conjured by her father in his stories about her mother, Leyla, who died when Dounia was too young to remember her – she sets off into exile.

The film was nominated for the Best Animated Feature Film Award at the 2022 Asia Pacific Screen Awards, and the Prix Iris for the Most Successful Film Outside Quebec at the 2023 Le Gala Quebec Cinema.