Filmmaker Nour Alkheder Weaves Memory and Loss in Syria-set Film

Overview

I Love You More, directed by Nour Alkheder, is a personal, reflective film set against the backdrop of the Syrian war in which the director longs for her father through memory, imagination and the fragments of a life uprooted by conflict. Alkheder assembles personal recollections, imagined scenes and remnants of everyday life to trace what was lost and what endures after displacement.

The film examines the emotional weight of nostalgia and the sustaining power of love for both a parent and a homeland that are out of reach. Through intimate storytelling and visual fragments, Alkheder confronts absence, memory and resilience in a landscape shaped by war, offering a meditation on longing and connection as reported by Al Jazeera