04.23.2018//A Hail Mary
2023 | 10mins | Canada | Arabic04.23.2018// A Hail Mary explores the intricacies and unique challenges faced by Karadsheh’s family during their immigration to Toronto, from […]
45th Parallel
2022 | 15mins | United Kingdom | English45th Parallel focuses on the Haskell Free Library and Opera House—a unique municipal site between the jurisdictions of Canada and […]
A Gaza Weekend
2022 | 90mins | United Kingdom, Palestine | Arabic, English, HebrewWhen a mutant virus known as ARS breaks out in Israel, people are desperate to get out of the country. […]
Back
2023 | 7mins | Netherlands, Syria | ArabicWhat it is like to be confronted in the dead of night with mortal fear, trauma and displacement.
Buzz
2022 | 20mins | Sudan | ArabicAs her health deteriorates, a mother watches her son and daughter prepare for her inevitable passing and their new reality.
Crocodile Tears
2022 | 16mins | Egypt, Saudi Arabia | ArabicOn a road that is overshadowed by its roamers, a Taxi driver takes off with his cousin who wants to […]
Dounia and the Princess of Aleppo
2023 | 72mins | Canada | FrenchForced to leave Syria because of the war, Dounia and her grandparents go in search of a new safe haven.
Foragers
2022 | 64mins | Palestine | Arabic, HebrewForagers depicts the dramas around the practice of foraging for wild edible plants in Palestine/Israel with wry humour and a […]
He’s Dead Now
2022 | 12mins | Egypt | ArabicHazem is distraught after his family secrets are made public when his mother decides to expose his late father’s sexual […]
Killing Bagheera
2022 | 13mins | Germany | KurdishAlan and Bekes are refugees and want to enter Europe. This simple premise forms the narrative for a claustrophobic and […]
Kingdom of Strangers
2022 | 15mins | Egypt, United States | ArabicOn the Pacific coast of Los Angeles, Ali and Yaffa struggle to remember the Arab Mediterranean cities they have left […]
Leila and the Cigarette
2023 | 15mins | Canada, Lebanon | ArabicIn 2011, Leah decided to go to Lebanon to film with her grandmother. Two weeks after the shoot, her grandmother […]
Lower Ground
2022 | 13mins | Lebanon, United Kingdom | ArabicWhen a concierge begins to prepare dinner for his nephew, a resident demands his immediate assistance. The concierge finds himself […]
Mediterranean Fever
2022 | 108mins | Cyprus, France, Germany, Palestine, Qatar | ArabicWaleed develops a close relationship with his neighbor, a small-time crook with an ulterior plot in mind that leads them […]
Memory’s Consolation
2022 | 18mins | Lebanon | ArabicAfter Hilton’s door had been closed for many years, the light was finally seen when the director decided to send […]
Olive Planet
2022 | 14mins | Germany | Arabic, English, GermanJihad, who dreams of becoming a footballer on Oliver Planet, decides to stand by the uprising against the government and […]
Paradiso, XXXI, 108
2022 | 19mins | Germany, Palestine | HebrewNothing can be heard anymore; the roar of our plane absorbs every other sound. We are heading straight to the […]
Shall I Compare You to a Summer’s Day?
2022 | 63mins | Egypt, Germany, Lebanon | Arabic, EnglishPop clichés are twisted with the love between two men who encounter a polyamorous chorus of lovers.
Simo
2022 | 23mins | Canada | French, ArabicThe usual rivalries and jealousies that exist between the two teenage brothers Simo and Emad take a dangerous turn that […]
Space Woman
2021 | 20mins | Lebanon | ArabicMaha, in her sixties, decides at the dawn of her retirement life to realize her craziest dream in her own […]
Streams
2023 | 122mins | Tunisia | ArabicAmel is released from prison after an adulterous affair. In the violent streets of Tunis, she seeks her missing son […]
The Desert Rocker
2022 | 75mins | Algeria, Canada, France, Morocco | Arabic, English, FrenchThe Desert Rocker is an intimate, witty and profound portrait of the extraordinary Hasna El Becharia, a pioneer Gnawa artist.
The Disaster Cannot Be Contained
2022 | 25mins | Netherlands, Lebanon | English, ArabicStarting with her obsessive love of ports, filmmaker Diana Al-Halabi narrates her experience on a tugboat in the port of […]
The Lebanese Burger Mafia
2023 | 103mins | Canada, Lebanon | EnglishThe meaty saga of a rogue fast- food chain with mysterious origins, a cult following, and a secret pathway to […]
The Window
2022 | 16mins | Lebanon | ArabicA year after Beirut’s port explosion, Basma and Mariam reunite in their old bedroom. Surrounded by a view of the […]
Traces
2023 | 9mins | Canada, Lebanon | ArabicIn the midst of the rubble of a torn building, a reel of film.