| Dreams of the City (Ahlam al-Madina) أحلام المدينة | |
| Director: | Mohamed Malas |
| Producer: | General Organization for Cinema |
| Starring: | Rafiq Sbei'i Hicham Khchefati Yasmine Khlat Bassel Abyad Ayman Zeidan |
| Cinematography: | Ordijan Anjin |
| Editing: | Haitham Kuwwatli |
| Distributor: | General Organization for Cinema |
| Runtime: | 120 minutes |
| Country: | Syria |
| Language: | Arabic |
Dreams of the City or Ahlam al-Madina (Arabic: أحلام المدينة|lit=Dreams of the City) is a Syrian feature drama film by director Mohamed Malas. It is a coming-of-age story of a boy forced to flee his native Quneitra to Damascus in the turbulent 1950s.[1]
The story is an autobiography of Dib, the main character in the film. Dib was brought up by a brutal father-in-law and a mother who was forced into a new marriage. This is partly an autobiography of Malas himself. It is set against the backdrop of the major political events of the 1950s in Syria and Egypt: the end of the dictatorship in Syria, Gamal Abdel Nasser's ascent to power and the nationalisation of the Suez Canal, and the short-lived The United Arab Republic between Syria and Egypt in 1958.[2]