Feature-Length Documentaries

LØVENE VED ELVEN TIGRIS

ZARADASHT AHMED | زردشت أحمد 92 min

In Mosul, devastated by the fight against ISIS, three men strive to revive its identity and culture. As the city rebuilds, a cultural awaken...

THE OTHER... RAEBURN

DAVID-PIERRE FILA | ديفيد بيير فيلا 94 min

The film follows Zimbabwean director Michael Raeburn through exile, identity, and political struggle, tracing his bond with James Baldwin an...

TALES OF THE WOUNDED

ABBAS FADHEL | عباس فاضل 120 min

An intimate chronicle of the war that devastated South Lebanon, leaving behind scorched land and a wounded community struggling to rebuild a...

Graveyard of Life

MOUSTAPHA GUEYE | مامادو مصطفى غييه 60 min

Bassirou Sène, a gravedigger in Dakar, follows his father and leaves school. For twenty years, without status, he tends famous graves. The d...

HOME MOVIE ON LOCATION

VIOLA SHAFIK | فيولا شفيق 100 min

This autobiographical documentary questions how family films, recreated in studios, become intimate memory sites shaped by transnational ide...

FIVE EYES

KARIM DEBBAGH | كريم دباغ 75 min

Karim, one of the last to connect with Beat Generation icons, returns to Tangier to trace their legacy. Using footage he shot 25 years ago,...

CINEMA KAWAKEB

MAHMOUD AL MASSAD | محمود المساد 80 min

Cinema Kawakeb follows a filmmaker capturing the fading life of a dying cinema in Amman through its last employees and its only loyal patron...

LITI LITI

MAMADOU KHOUMA GUEYE | مامادو غوما غييه 76 min

The director documents his mother’s forced departure from their family home in 2021, cleared to make way for the new Regional Express Train...

The Man Who Plants Baobabs

MICHEL K. ZONGO | ميشيل ك. زونغو 73 min

For 50 years, El Hadj Salifou Ouédraogo has planted baobabs each year in his village in western Burkina Faso. At 80, he has grown more than...

On The Hill

Belhassen Handous | بلحسن حندوس 77 min

On a hilltop farm on the Tunisian-Algerian border, Gisela Bergman, an octogenarian German, lived over half a century, raising purebred Arabi...

Our Seed

Anis Lassoued | أنيس لسود 80 min

In Tunis, a decade after the revolution, two families’ daily lives contrast between relative comfort and quiet simplicity. Amid boredom, sil...

The Para-dise

Majdi Lakhdar |مجدي لخضر 82 min

Far out on the fringes, in the city’s remote corners, a solitary woman wearing the niqab, a nostalgic Malian student, and a group of passion...