Acting
Jan 2, 1979
Damascus, Syria
Dima Kandalaft
Acting
Biography
Dima Kandalaft is a Syrian actress and singer born on January 3, 1979. She graduated from the Faculty of Economics at Damascus University and began her artistic career in music before transitioning to acting. She started singing with the Joy Choir before joining the Rainbow Ensemble. One of her early musical collaborations was with Syrian musician Bashar Zarqan, performing a composition based on a poem by renowned Palestinian poet Mahmoud Darwish. She later joined the musical group Safar, whose songs received exposure on Syrian television. Pursuing her growing interest in acting, she enrolled at the Higher Institute of Dramatic Arts in Damascus. Her acting career began on stage with the play *Song of the Moon*. She subsequently took on numerous leading roles in television and theater, establishing herself as a recognized figure in Syrian drama.
Feature Films (4)
A tour guide is caught between two men: the first is a powerful and influential businessman, who is secretly married to the tour guide, and demands that she abort the fetus she is carrying from him. As for the other, she meets him on one of her tours and falls in love with him, as he appears to her to be a light-hearted, helpful and humble man.
Public Relations
The fate of three women in wartime is united, each of whom is called Maryam and living at different times facing the war in its moral, social and brutal aspects, but each of them will not lose a life
Mariam
The autobiography of a film director who grows up in a small town then leaves for the city to finish his studies. When he became famous, he decided to make a film about his upbringing in the village based on his childhood memories.
The Lover
The story follows Abu Jad who encounters the woman Nahla, who suffers from her husband's injustice after he joins the Muslim Brotherhood at the time, as she refuses to be a witness to the crimes he commits. Abu Jad clashes with him because of their different mindsets.
The Confession
Television & Series (43)
In the alleys of old Damascus, Abdo makes his living driving a horse-drawn carriage — an honest man in a neighbourhood ruled by the scheming Abu Hamza Al-Nashwati, who has stolen his dead brother's inheritance and turned the whole quarter against anyone who stands in his way. When Abdo falls for a girl and dares to defy the powerful family, a personal conflict spirals into a battle between ordinary decency and entrenched corruption. A warm, character-driven Syrian period drama starring Bassem Yakhour and Salloum Haddad.
The Coachman
The series follows the rupture of Andalusia into many warring states, which allowed the northern Kingdom of Castile to expand its borders and take control.
Kings of Sects
The series examines the change in the composition of the Syrian family, through the life of a number of Damascene families that are connected by a number of intertwining relationships, as love blossoms between the lawyer Riyad El Emary and the interior designer Riad El Merady.
Holding Back Tears
At a Damascus girls' high school, the school counsellor Hanan is the quiet centre of everyone's storms — helping teenagers navigate family pressure, social expectations and the bruising complexities of adolescence, while quietly managing the unravelling of her own marriage. Each student carries a different wound; each episode peels back another layer. A warm, perceptive Syrian drama about the hidden costs of growing up female in Arab society. Directed by Rasha Sharbatji, starring Salma Al-Masri and Qusay Khouli.
