Ayham Ahmad – The Pianist of Yarmouk

When civil war erupts in Syria in 2011, Ayham Ahmad — who was born in the Yarmouk refugee camp of Palestinians in southern Damascus — refuses to leave his childhood home. Surrounded by ruins, he resists the only way he can: by singing, accompanied by an out-of-tune piano, about migration, hunger, and death. Threatened by Assad’s regime and jihadists of the Islamic State, the musician is silenced and must flee — to Germany. After his arrival in Munich in 2016, we follow the life of a man who sang out against the suffering in his country until his instrument was destroyed. His fate stands for that of thousands — robbed of their hopes and dreams and forced to build a new existence.