Documentary, 1h 15m

Noura and Machi search for answers about their loved ones – Bassel Safadi and Paolo Dall’Oglio, who are among the over 100,000 forcibly disappeared in Syria. Faced with the limbo of an overwhelming absence of information, hope is the only thing they have to hold on to. ‘Ayouni’ is a deeply resonant Arabic term of endearment - meaning ‘my eyes’ and understood as ‘my love’. Filmed over 6 years and across multiple countries in search of answers, Ayouni is an attempt to give numbers faces, to give silence a voice, and to make the invisible undeniably visible.Director: Yasmin Fedda

Producers: Hugh Hartford & Elhum Shakerifar

Filmed by: Yasmin Fedda & Hugh Hartford

Additional Footage: Bassel Safari Khartabil, Orwa Mokdad, Dana Trometer, Anwar Omar and many anonymous camera operators

Editors: Tom Erns & Greg Pittard