I Am Fatou
2020 | 18mins | Egypt, Italy, Germany | ItalianFatou is a 23-year-old Italian girl of Senegalese origin. She lives in a suburb of Rome with her mother who […]
I Have Seen Nothing, I Have Seen All
2019 | 20mins | Sweden, Syria | ArabicAfter talking about the end of the war in Syria and the start of the reconstruction phase, Yaser and his […]
I Lay for You to Sleep
2024 | 14mins | Qatar | ArabicSurrounded by grief-stricken women who wash him with care, Ali’s soul drifts through glimpses of loved ones, spurring revelations that […]
I Love You More
2024 | 17mins | Netherlands | ArabicNour’s journey to recognition of her longing for her father and Syria, where she confronts loss and the emotional impact […]
I Never Promised You A Jasmine Garden
2023 | 20mins | Canada | Arabic, EnglishTara, a queer Palestinian woman in her late 20s, attempts to suppress her internal emotional turbulence during a phone call […]
I’ll Get Back To You
2024 | 8mins | Palestine | ArabicFor the first time in decades, an exile arrives in Palestine and enters his family home. His mission is to […]
I’m Afraid To Forget Your Face
2020 | 15mins | Egypt, France, Qatar, Belgium | ArabicAfter being separated for 82 days, Adam travels down a rough road to be reunited with the one he loves, […]
If the sun drowned into an ocean of clouds
2023 | 20mins | France | ArabicBeirut, Lebanon. On the waterfront’s construction site, security agent Raed must prevent passing-by walkers from accessing the seaside. Yet as […]
If You See Something
2023 | 103mins | United States | Arabic, EnglishDeep in the throes of a new love, Ali, an Iraqi immigrant seeking political asylum in the US, and Katie, […]
Ihala
2024 | 15mins | Bahrain | ArabicTying memories and spiritual stories, the film envisions the Ihala as a mystic, spirit possessed object haunting the very space […]
In the Middle
2019 | 14mins | Yemen, Qatar, Russia | Arabic, EnglishIn a rarely seen perspective of war, we follow Ali—a Yemeni soldier on tour in the temporary capital of Aden. […]
In Uncle Salem’s Country
2019 | 14mins | Tunisia | Arabic, FrenchTunisia, September 2013. There is only a fortnight left before the beginning of the school year. Uncle Salem, guardian of […]
Incurable
2021 | 17mins | Iran | ArabicIn a southern region of Iran, a girl has been lost. Her brother and her sister in law are looking […]
Iraq’s Invisible Beauty
2023 | 87mins | Belgium, France, Iraq | ArabicLatif Al Ani photographed Iraq for 30 years before multiple wars arose. At the age of 86, he travels through […]
J’ai Le Cafard
2020 | 14mins | Kuwait | ArabicA woman in a downhearted mood struggles to keep up appearances in front of her chirpy and driven office colleagues. […]
Jardins Paradise
2020 | 6mins | Canada | FrenchGarden of Eden, jardin √† la fran√ßaise, English, Zen, Bahai, Arab-Islamic: Gardens reflect history, culture and heritage. They are some […]
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 […]
Juha the Whale
2016 | 13mins | Canada | ArabicJuha the Whale is a short coming-of-age fiction film that explores the isolation a refugee mother and her young daughter […]
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 […]
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 […]
Landing
2020 | 3mins | Lebanon, Tunisia, Canada, Turkey | ArabicTo be queer and to linger between states, between nation-states. A poetical essay that very briefly explores fragments of a […]
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 […]
Le Disque De Poussière
2023 | 18mins | FranceCharline Dally invites viewers to investigate meteorite particles to identify crater impacts, only to discover that by merely observing this […]
Left Right
2018 | 23mins | Tunisia | ArabicYassine, 7 years old, left handed, his father is forcing him to use his right hand.
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 […]
Les Patins (The Skates)
2023 | 13mins | Canada | FrenchMina loves to skate. Today, her father, recently divorced from her mother, accompanies her to her first figure skating lesson. […]
Life on the CAPS
2022 | 76mins | Morocco | English, ArabicLife on the CAPS is a trilogy of short film by Moroccan artist Meriem Bennani. Set in a supernatural, dystopian […]
Light upon Light
2022 | 78mins | Egypt | Arabic, EnglishA philosophical field trip from Cairo, along the Nile and into the desert in search for what light means as […]
Locus Cordis
2023 | 19mins | Syria | Arabic, EnglishOccupied by Israel in 1967, the Syrian Golan has a military border running through it, which families “cross” by shouting […]
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 […]
Malika
2024 | 14mins | Saudi Arabia | ArabicSalma, a rebellious 8-year-old is sent to her room until dinnertime for cutting her bangs behind her mother’s back. Instead, […]