SINK
When her teenage son is suspended after a troubling outburst, Nadia believes he just needs guidance. But as Basil’s mental state deteriorate...
DONGA
As a youth, Donga filmed the Libyan uprising against Muammar Gaddafi in 2011, as well as later scenes of war in Libya. Through excerpts from...
UNDER THE SKY OF DAMASCUS
Five Syrian women create a play denouncing sexual harassment and abuse. As they gather testimonies across Damascus to shape their work, they...
LES LUEURS D’ADEN
Ahmed and Israa, parents of three in Yemen, lose their jobs due to an economic crisis. Israa discovers she’s pregnant with a fourth child —...
HANGING GARDENS
When a young Iraqi rubbish picker rescues an American sex doll from the Baghdad dumps, he crosses into a perilous red zone, where friends be...
ASHKAL, THE TUNIS INVESTIGATION
In a building, two police officers, Fatma and Batal, discover a charred body. As construction gradually resumes, they begin to investigate t...
YOU WILL DIE AT 20
Mazmul, a child from a small Sudanese town, grows up under the prophecy predicting his death at twenty, enduring pitying gazes, until the da...
HEADBANG LULLABY
Casablanca, June 11, 1986, a World Cup day. A disgruntled cop is sent by his disgruntled superiors to spend a day on a bridge between two wa...
WAITING FOR SWALLOWS
Algeria today. Past and present collide in the lives of a newly wealthy property developer, a young woman torn between the path of reason an...
THE LAST DAYS OF THE CITY
In 2009 Cairo, Khalid films the soul of a city on the verge of revolution. Images from Cairo, and from friends in Beirut, Baghdad, and Berli...
SLEEPLESS NIGHTS
Through Assaad Shaftari, a former militia officer, and Maryam Saiidi, mother of a missing fighter, the film explores war’s wounds while ques...
BETWEEN HEAVEN AND EARTH
Salma and Tamer, a Palestinian couple whose rare permit to file for divorce leads to a shocking discovery, sending them on a road trip confr...