Country: Lebanon
Director: Jad Youssef
Length: 39 mins
Synopsis: A semi-fictional essay film, narrated from the perspective of an alien agent sent to earth to investigate the aftermath of a complex murder event.
FILMS//أفلام
Radius Catastrophe//الأرض المستباحة
Razzia//غزية
Country: Morocco
Director: Nabil Ayouch
Length: 119 mins
Synopsis: Casablanca: vibrant and rough, inviting yet unforgiving. Four souls in search of truth, thirty years after a passionate teacher in the Atlas Mountains was put to silence… Through the echo of his shattered dreams, the disillusions of the four characters embody the sparks that will light the city in flames.
This film is not suitable for children.
Roadblock//حاجز
Country: France, Lebanon
Director: Dahlia Nemlich
Length: 16 mins
Synopsis: Beirut 2019 – During the Revolution. On her way back from a protest, Farah, a young Lebanese woman and her French – Lebanese boyfriend, Anthony, are stopped at a roadblock held by two armed militiamen who have a bone to pick with Farah.
Roujoula//رجولة
Country: France, Morocco
Length: 22 min
Director: Ilias El Faris
Synopsis: In Casablanca, Eid-Al-Adha is around the corner. Imad, who sells hacked DVDs in the streets, doesn’t manage to earn enough money to buy the sacrificial sheep. The perfect excuse to take advantage of his studious little brother, forcing him to become a parking attendant, not realizing that he is giving Fayçal the perfect opportunity to exact his revenge.
Rupture//رابتشير
Country: Canada, Jordan
Director: Yassmina Karajah
Length: 18 mins
Synopsis: Rupture follows the journey of four Arab teens on their quest to find a public pool in their new city on a hot summer’s day. Introducing a cast of first time actors and war survivors who channel their personal experiences of loss and new beginnings through a fictional narrative.
Sandjak//سنجق
Country: Lebanon
Director: Chantal Partamian
Length: 8 mins
Synopsis: Navigating three types of images, shot in three different periods, the film explores the poetics of haunting through compositions of images that create an entanglement between the past and the present. An intimate but detached voice, a little stoic even, speaking of countless losses. The repeated affirmation of belonging to a place that is no longer.
Searching for Amal//البحث عن أمل
Country: Egypt
Director: Shehab Abd Al-hafez
Length: 30 mins
Synopsis: A grandson opens up old family photos to realize that there was always a picture of a girl hanging on the wall behind them, and now he sets upon a path of discovery.
Sh’hab//شهاب
Country: Qatar
Length: 13 min
Director: Amal Al-Muftah
Synopsis: Upon hearing a myth about falling stars, a young girl’s curiosity is sparked. When night falls on the village of AlWakrah, she sets out on her father’s boat, with the assistance of her older brother, to chase the fabled comets.
Shall I Compare You to a Summer’s Day?//بشتقلك ساعات
Country: Egypt, Lebanon, Germany
Director: Mohammad Shawky Hassan
Length: 63 mins
Synopsis: Pop clichés are twisted with the love between two men who encounter a polyamorous chorus of lovers.
Simo
Country: Canada
Director: Aziz Zoromba
Length: 23 mins
Synopsis: The usual rivalries and jealousies that exist between the two teenage brothers Simo and Emad take a dangerous turn that may seriously impact the future of their family.
Six Feet Over//ما فوق الضريح
Country: France, Algeria
Director: Karim Bensalah
Length: 96 mins
Synopsis: Son of a former Algerian diplomat Sofiane lived his entire life to this point abroad. Now a student in Lyon, he is the victim of an administrative decision and is living under the threat of expulsion.
Six Months
Country: Canada
Director: Robin Riad
Length: 2 mins
Synopsis: “Six Months” is a critique of alcohol within a North American cultural context, through societal pressure and mass marketing.
Sixty Egyptian Pounds//ستين جنيه
Country: Egypt
Director: Amr Salama
Length: 20 mins
Synopsis: A struggling family is attempting to deal with the consequences of a horrible catastrophe.
So Dear, So Lovely
Countries: Canada, Lebanon
Director: Diana Allen
Length: 23 mins
Synopsis: Service taxi driver Abu Hosam, a Palestinian with a varied past, a doubtful future and a majestic present, drives the streets of Beirut and the map of memory, speaking his mind with wild energy and wit. So Dear, So Lovely is a song of grief and exuberance.
So We Live//لنا نعيش
Country: Belgium
Director: Rand Abou Fakher
Length: 15 mins
Synopsis: A family living in a war torn country spends what seems to be a normal evening together. Their conversations shift between casual matters of daily life and survival. This ambiguous situation highlights the aches of how we take time for granted and live life.
Solitaire//محبس
Country: Lebanon
Director: Sophie Boutros
Length: 92 mins
Synopsis: Therese, the mayor’s wife in a Lebanese village, joyfully prepares for an overnight visit of her daughter’s suitor and his parents. She excitedly shares the happy news of the engagement with pictures of her beloved brother who was killed by a Syrian bomb 20 years ago and is still bizarrely present in every corner of her house. Only when the long-awaited guests are at her doorstep, she discovers they are Syrian; this engagement will only happen over Therese’s dead body!
Something from there//شيء من هناك
Country: Canada
Director: Rana Nazzal Hamadeh
Length: 7 mins
Synopsis: Something from there is a short film on the substance of our original lands. How does connection to land change after uprooting and in diaspora? How does matter come to embody our memories and defy official histories? These are some of the open-ended questions asked in this reflection on the complicated implications of wanting a piece of land after displacement. Weaving between the voices of the artist’s parents, one a refugee and the other not, the film is personal, yet evokes a shared Palestinian experience. A fragmented story of the artist’s father’s exile from Palestine in 1948 is the guiding narrative.
Somewhere, but not here
Country: Canada
Director: Karel Malkoun
Length: 23 mins
Synopsis: Miles away, I watch the slow erasing of my home. Scattered between two places, I am no longer anywhere.
Son Of The Streets
Country: Palestine
Director: Mohammed Almughanni
Length: 33 mins
Synopsis: The film depicts the daily life of Khodor, a 13-year-old orphan whose relatives struggle to get him an ID card that proves his existence and gives him the right to education, health care and freedom of movement outside the Palestinian refugee camp of Shatila in Beirut, Lebanon. During the process, long hidden family secrets are revealed.
Space Woman//إمرأة فضاء
Country: Lebanon
Director: Hadi Moussally
Length: 20 mins
Synopsis: Maha, in her sixties, decides at the dawn of her retirement life to realize her craziest dream in her own way