5:1
2021 | 8mins | Canada | FrenchFilmmaker Ben-Saud takes us into her family home, where she was confined with her parents and adult brother and sister […]
A Second Life
2021 | 92mins | Tunisia | EnglishGadeha (12) happens one day to be the victim of a car accident. He undergoes surgery. Penniless, his mother, Borkana, […]
A Toi
2021 | 11mins | Lebanon | EnglishA 12 year old boy develops a spiritual relationship with his dead grandpa.
Abu Saddam
2021 | 89mins | Egypt | ArabicExperienced truck driver Abu Saddam gets a transportation mission on the North Coast road after he stopped working for years. […]
Algerian Chronicles
2021 | 74mins | France | Arabic, FrenchSummer 2019, Zak wanders around the streets of Alger and dives into the Hirak, a series of protests happening in […]
An Evening with Laila
2021 | 10mins | Kuwait | ArabicA short documentary about the life and true story of Laila Abdulaziz, a pioneer of music in the Arabian Gulf […]
Ana Wa Enti (Me and You)
2020 | 17mins | United States | Arabic33-year-old Amira struggles to find her place in between her Arab and American identities while living with and navigating her […]
Aïcha’s Dress
2021 | 28mins | Tunisia | ArabicSaber, a young 14-year-old who lives in precariousness, manages as best he can to provide for himself and his sick […]
Blooming Dalia
2021 | 24mins | France | FrenchDalia (25), a french ex-reality TV starlet, is at her lowest point. Depressed and overweight, she tries to reconnect with […]
Brown Bread & Apricots
2020 | 8mins | Canada, Jordan | ArabicIn the absence of his parents, an unruly teenager is presented with a crucial test of character devised by his […]
CloseCall
2021 | 9mins | Egypt, United StatesAn Egyptian-American businessman arrives in New York City to salvage a transaction that has his career hanging in the balance. […]
Conversations with an Actress
2022 | 13mins | Lebanon | Arabic, English, FrenchThroughout two consecutive summers, a director was documenting his conversations with an actress about Beirut, love, failure, and immigration without […]
Dajla: Cinema and Oblivion
2020 | 15mins | Spain | English, SpanishThe rocky desert in southwestern Algeria is the temporary home of about 150,000 refugees from Western Sahara. Goats grazing or […]
Don’t Forget The Water
2021 | 5mins | Canada | ArabicA phone conversation sets the diasporic table as a disembodied figure prepares Qahwah Arabi / Arabic Coffee. Here, the contradictions […]
Don’t Get Too Comfortable
2021 | 9mins | Yemen, Qatar, United States, Netherlands | Arabic, EnglishDon’t Get Too Comfortable is a heartfelt introspective letter to my deceased grandfather. The letter questions the continuous pattern of […]
Elektra, My Love (Elektra, Ya Gharami)
2021 | 89mins | Lebanon, Germany | ArabicA kammerspiel-film set in the moody, cavernous ruin of the Piccadilly Theater, Beirut’s extravagant art palace destroyed after the Lebanese […]
Festina Lente
2021 | 21mins | Canada | Arabic, English, FrenchCombining two contradictory terms in a single phrase is called an oxymoron. Circumventing the obvious, shaking up the logic, proceeding […]
Fighters
2020 | 20mins | France | FrenchEmma, a woman of 35 years old, beaten by her abusive husband, escapes her house during the night with her […]
Galb’Echaouf
2021 | 18mins | Morocco | ArabicWhile investigating on an event that profoundly changed the landscape of the Occidental Sahara, the filmmaker was faced with a […]
Incurable
2021 | 17mins | Iran | ArabicIn a southern region of Iran, a girl has been lost. Her brother and her sister in law are looking […]
Joe Buffalo
2021 | 16mins | Canada | EnglishJoe Buffalo, an Indigenous skateboard legend and Indian Residential School survivor, must face his inner demons to realize his dream […]
Khamsin
2019 | 66mins | France | English, FrenchLebanon today. The traces of the civil war are all too tangible as government corruption becomes unbearable. In a country […]
Last Days of the Man of Tomorrow
2017 | 23mins | Lebanon, Germany | ArabicA young filmmaker investigates the legend of Manivelle, an automaton gifted to Lebanon in 1945 that still haunts an abandoned […]
Mariam
2020 | 5mins | Palestine | Arabic, EnglishAfter losing her precious paradise, Mariam undergoes a journey through her roots and history to find culture and continuity.
Osha
2021 | 15mins | United Arab Emirates | ArabicThis short documentary follows a mother (Aysha) and daughter (Osha) as they travel through the desert hunting with falcons, the […]
Roadblock
2020 | 16mins | France, Lebanon | FrenchBeirut 2019 – During the Revolution. On her way back from a protest, Farah, a young Lebanese woman and her […]
Searching for Amal
2020 | 30mins | Egypt | ArabicA grandson opens up old family photos to realize that there was always a picture of a girl hanging on […]
Son Of The Streets
2020 | 33mins | Palestine | ArabicThe film depicts the daily life of Khodor, a 13-year-old orphan whose relatives struggle to get him an ID card […]
Strangers After Midnight
2021 | 22mins | Syria | ArabicMoments that unfolded late one night in the life of four Syrian refugees in Paris.
Tala’Vision
2021 | 27mins | Germany, Jordan | ArabicTrapped in a war ridden reality, with the hope of one day playing in the neighborhood’s football field, 8 year […]
The Laughing Woo Woo
2022 | 17mins | United States | Arabic, EnglishA proof-of-concept short film about Simsim – a lonesome Egyptian asylee in San Francisco with a wooingly contagious laugh, is […]
The Song of Sin
2021 | 15mins | France | ArabicThe Song of Sin retraces the story of Sufunis and Youba, couple of Imediazens, a tribe of the rif located […]
Under The Concrete
2020 | 79mins | Lebanon | ArabicBeirut, Lebanon 2017. As the country trembles a man decides to attempt to break the world record of depth in […]
Warsha
2022 | 16mins | Lebanon | ArabicA Syrian migrant working as a crane operator in Beirut volunteers to cover a shift on one of the most […]
With Strings Attached
2021 | 3mins | United Kingdom | ArabicThe importance of women in this world is often neglected. This narrative stop-motion film explores the complexities of a relationship […]
You Resemble Me
2021 | 90mins | France, Egypt, United States | Arabic, FrenchWhen the bond is broken between two sisters, a little girl transforms into someone new in the name of belonging […]