When Cities Fly

High above the roofs of Amman, the capital of Jordan, the camera follows objects that fly: People standing on the roofs of their houses guide their kites into the air, small flocks of birds circle the sky. Towards the second half of the film the camera finds a group of young children playing in the remains of a torn down building. Instead of kites they only have empty plastic bags which they try to get up into the air. The camera comes closer and begins to interact with the children.

Khaled Jamal Mzher was born in Damascus in May 1984. He graduated from the Institute of Dramatic Arts in Damascus in 2007 and was in the directing department of the the National Polish Film, Television and Theatre School in Lodz between 2009 and 2011. In 2012 he continued his studies at the German Film and Television Academy in Berlin (dffb). In May 2015 he became a recipient of The German Academic Scholarship Foundation (Studienstiftung des deutschen Volkes).