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Rashid Marshawi takes us on a special journey across the historical city of Jaffa, where his father was forced to leave in the 1948 exodus. With his own voice, Marshawi narrates his memories of the city, bringing to life the waves on Jaffa’s shore, the sounds of its streets, and the sweetness of its inhabitants and its spirit. Recovery is a splendid cinematic experience that attempts to cloud the border between time and space as Marshawi takes us on a tour of magnificent photos from 1930 to 1948, allowing his nostalgia to breathe a new life into the static bodies portrayed.

In 1959, expatriate American writer Paul Bowles published Their Heads Are Green, Their Hands are Blue, a collection of travel essays largely drawn from a three-year journey through Morocco to meet the country’s tribes and record their music. Fifty years later, directors Karim Debbagh and Jay Bulgur retrace his steps, capturing many of the same pieces of music – which are handed down from one generation to the next – on film. A mysterious soundscape of musical rituals, dealing with fertility, birth, circumcision, grief, coming of age, marriage, divorce, life, death and art, it is both a historical record and, thanks to the elevating nature of the music, food for the soul.

The film highlights the suffering of couples when they do not have children, whether because the wife is barren or because of the husband is sterile.

In a short film that blends archival material with poetry, Francesco di Gioa reveals the story of the Libyan pot Fadil Hasin Ash-Shalmani. His deportation to Italy reveals one of the forgotten and violent faxes of italian colonization in Libya.

When the French authorities closed their borders, landed their planes, confined their citizens to their homes, spreading the police on the streets. I was in Paris. Without any planning, the memory coming from Palestine began to flow and merge with the diaries I live here, and the virus began to awaken other viruses, which made me spontaneously, as a Palestinian citizen, besieged in the most beautiful Parisian neighbourhood (Montmartre), busy documenting aspects of diaries and memories in a period of time that changed the face of the scientist.

Thousands of refugee women from the middle east endure the uncertainty of their future and face various psychological and physiological problems due to stress in their life. Intisar Foundation is helping these women overcome their trauma through drama therapy.

Moroccan feature film tells the story of a grown man postman and his funny situations with his mother .

Moroccan feature film tell the story of "Ibrahim", who, accompanied by his wife "Evelyn" and their two sons "Nadia" and "Radwan", decides to return to Morocco to settle permanently, especially after the head of the family managed to provide an important wealth that he intends to invest in Equipping the estate he inherited from his father.

From his home in Lisbon, Lebanese-Palestinian writer Saleem Haddad reflects on memory, his family and the strangeness of the sea. He chases his grandmother’s fast-fading recollections of Palestine, where she lived many decades ago, and thinks about writing the homeland from a distance.

Christina, a 21 year old Lebanese, bold and carefree girl has been trying to hide her unstable relationship with her girlfriend Maya, who is rather reserved and afraid to come out in a country where homosexuality is illegal.

A short documentary about the life and true story of Laila Abdulaziz, a pioneer of music in the Arabian Gulf and staple of Kuwaiti history who had a vision for the future that no one was ready for, not even herself.

Moonscape is a short film which takes the form of a music video for a ballad/middle of the road song, performed as a duet between a male and female singer, in Arabic. The song traces the story of a man called Dennis M. Hope, who claimed ownership of the Moon in 1980 and thus founded the Lunar Embassy – a company that sells land on a variety of planets and Moons, and makes a connection between his story and that of the director's – a young Palestinian woman living under the Israeli occupation, longing to end the misery of her people in any way possible.

Inspired by everyday struggle of Micro-bus drivers in Cairo, Flox, the title of the film and the name of the micro-bus as pronounced by Its drivers, is an observational documentary that looks at the intricate interplay between class and gender. Specifically, it explores how micro-bus drivers perceive and negotiate their masculinity in a mega-city like Cairo, For them, driving a difficult vehicle, handling inter-group conflict, struggling with poverty, surviving with substance abuse only made them to wish not to foresee their children inheriting the same job. The film is about the beauty as well as the dark side of the chaotic life of the urban poor, who are forced to create a state within a state in order to live.

The story tells about two friends one of them (Debo) got his father's car and went to the other to take him to having a special day with the 100 EGP. they have In their pockets, they went to the Ps centre to play "FIFA" as they used to but found it closed, so what they gonna do with all of this money?

Lebanese filmmaker Dima El-Horr moved to Paris several years ago. Among the friends who stayed at home is the artist Sirvat Fazlian, whom she regularly visits in Beirut until the failed revolution of 2019, the COVID lockdown, the devastating port explosion and finally the dramatic economic crisis put a temporary end to their meetings. So the director decides to give her conversations with Siro a cinematic form.

30 years after the end of the Iran-Iraq war, 'Sami' who is bruised by the death of his wife on a mine site; is still struggling to de-mine his mine-polluted land.

Last Friday 12 Sept. 2021 , the Swiss Criminal Court issued its first judgment against Sheikh Ahmed Al-Fahd Al-Sabah, President of the Olympic Council of Asia (resigned from him last Friday), the former Kuwaiti minister and a member of the ruling family, after convicting him of forging a Swiss arbitration award linked to a “fake coup plot.” Al-Fahd tried to promote it to eliminate his political opponents inside Kuwait, namely the former Prime Minister Sheikh Nasser Al-Mohammed Al-Sabah, and the late former Speaker of the National Assembly (parliament) Jassem Al-Kharafi, according to Reuters.