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A Lebanese migrant in The Netherlands receives a haunting voice message from his former best friend in Beirut.

Adam, 27, drops his wife's thong onto neighbor Bassem's balcony.

Salima, an independent artist, finds a cell phone on her way. What seems like an everyday occurrence soon turns into a disturbing experience: insistent calls, a voice demanding answers, and tension that drags her into losing control of her own reality.

During the quarantine lockdown, a 16-year-old’s ordinary days fracture into a defining journey of resilience, rebellion, and growth that redefines who he is.

A silent short film set in an empty space that reflects the subconscious of its main character. The film depicts the inner journey of a young man confronting his silence, his pain, and his memory burdened with loss. Through visual symbols such as an old clock and empty space, the work reveals a hidden conflict that gradually escalates until the final emotional explosion. The film relies on experimental imagery and sound rather than traditional dialogue to create a poetic and tranquil experience that confronts the viewer with questions of repression, identity, and inner transformation.

Fatimetu Bucharaya is a Sahrawi woman who in 2019 founded SMAWT, a voluntary women’s association dedicated to the detection of anti-personnel mines in the Sahrawi refugee camps in Tindouf (Algeria). This documentary chronicles the group’s work and the challenges they face within a complex political backdrop.

A childless Emirati couple must buy a gift for their newborn nephew while navigating social pressure to start a family. When the husband's overbearing mother turns up unannounced, things take a turn for the worse.

This is the story of Buyema Abdelfatan, also known as Castro, an ex Saharan soldier that now a days runs a centre for disabled children in the refugee camp of Smara (Tindouf, Algeria). A personal project that has earned him both praise and criticism, but could not continue without his dedication, perseverance and humanitarian aid that he receives.

Fatma, who lives in Asuerd’s refugee camp in the Hamada of the Algerian desert, will listen in television to news that will give her a great idea … to contact with a girl from another side of the Atlantic Ocean: Sasha, one of the daughters of the president Obama.

"A message to Obama" is a true story about a black man that writes a letter to the President of the United States of America - Barack Obama. The film features the history of his family and his people as well as his wishes to live in peace in his homeland Sahara.

This heartwarming love story follows a father who turns to ultra-running in his quest to find a cure for his daughter’s condition. At the age of 59, in the aftermath of the Beirut Port Explosion of August 4, he embarks on an epic journey to run the Lebanon Mountain Trail (470 kilometers of rugged terrain), with his daughter Saria as his medal at the finish line.

Two people are working under the control of a computer and its orders.

The last Station is a personal experience of Exile, Return and the Dream of a Homeland. This journey between the Dream and the Reality contains lots of happiness, hope and yet disappointments.

This film is about the suffering of Sahrawi youth in the occupied Western Sahara. It tells the tragic story of their lives under occupation, and how Moroccan authorities push them to risk their lives and leave their homeland on flimsy boats to flee from a life of repression, fulfilling Morocco's goal of emptying the territory of youth, who are the foundations of society.

Documentary that explains the current climate of political turmoil in the north of Africa caused by the embedded problem of the decolonization of Western Sahara. A region on the brink of war. The responsibility of Western governments and social media, especially France and Spain, whose foreign policy based on economic interests puts on the background moral principles. In the case of Spain also its responsibilities as administrator of the territory which has triggered a situation of chaos and violence. The film describes the current situation of Western Sahara in its three conflict zones, presents its protagonists and denounces the informative silence condemning the Saharawi people to the oblivion.

Médicos del Mundo Sahara presents the "Hunna Raquizat Alhayat" campaign that tells the stories of 17 Saharawi refugee women with different specialties and responsibilities within the field of health. This campaign arises from the need to value their work and raise awareness around all the challenges they face in their day to day, with the aim of contributing to the construction of a fairer society for all people. Saharawi women have been and continue to be the ones who sustain the population or, in other words, they are the pillar of life.

“GAZA.MP4” is a meditation on the mundanity of hope in the aftermath of the war on Gaza post-7th October 2023. The video portrays scenes of daily life in Gaza through the lens of a disrupted communication between two friends, Diaa and Mohannad. Diaa requests filmmaker Mohannad to use his phone to capture raw visual materials during his displacement journey from Gaza, Khan Yunis, and Rafah since October. Mohammad’s compliance cements a bond forged during their student days and addresses the phenomenon of data clouding and transferring through alternative channels like Telegram. Using the chat window as a visual element to evoke a sense of our modern anxiety and the relentless pace induced by ADHD, the footage is received and processed by Diaa.

Sahrawi artist and visual poet Mohamed Sleiman Labat follows the story of the emerging phenomenon of small scale family gardens in his local community in the Hamada Desert. The film features the story of four families in Samara Camp with small scale gardens, their practices and the knowledge they develop as part of their practices in the garden. The camps are located in a very harsh environment with extreme climate conditions, and the Sahrawi are still dependent on international food aid.