Abdallah Al-Khatib

Abdallah Al-Khatib was born in 1989 in Yarmouk, Syria. He studied sociology at the University of Damascus. Before the revolution, he worked for the United Nations as an activities and volunteer coordinator, and for UNRWA (the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East) as coordinator of the Yarmouk Youth Support Center. Together with several friends, he founded the humanitarian organization Wataad, which carried out dozens of projects across various regions of Syria, particularly in Yarmouk. He contributed to several documentary films chronicling life in the Yarmouk camp, serving in various capacities. He was one of the cinematographers of 194. Us, Children of the Camps, which premiered at Visions du Réel in 2017. He also organized video workshops in Yarmouk, notably during the siege. In Sweden, he received the Per Anger Human Rights Award in 2016. His most recent feature film, Chronicles from the Siege, premiered in the Perspectives section of the Berlinale in 2026, where it won the Best First Feature Award. He currently lives in Münster, Germany, where he recently obtained refugee status.