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.

Dib was brought up by a brutal father-in-law and a mother who was forced into a new marriage.

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.