Tawfik Sabouni is a Belgian-Syrian filmmaker and screenwriter born in Damascus in 1989. At school, he joined a theater group. As a teenager he decided to pursue filmmaking. There is no film school in his country, so he chooses to study law. At the same time, he continued working in theater and in radio. Then came the Syrian revolution in 2011. Tawfik Sabouni picked up a camera. He films, documents, and records what the state wants to erase. He is arrested and imprisoned in Sednaya. After his release, he flees Syria. In 2015, he arrived in Belgium. After studying law, he pursued film directing at INSAS in Brussels, graduating in 2022. He also studies acting and works as a director for radio and as a dubbing actor for television. His short films “On the edge of madness” (2021) and “Stateless” (2022) screen at international festivals. Tawfik Sabouni draws on his own experience to create films of rare emotional intensity, offering a deeply unsettling space for collective testimony and reclaimed memory.