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The film tells the story of a robbery in which a girl suffers a conflict situation about the form of the victim that she wants to be, but in another context it is a form of contrast between past and future that highlights the effect of the act of theft

This documentary is unique from the previous films that dealt with the Corona pandemic, as it raises the issue of the virus that has stoned the entire world and stopped the wheel from the viewpoint of scientists who are currently spending time on the front lines in fighting the virus. From students of his fairy code, through suggested treatments, to vaccines, and their availability soon. The documentary also includes impressive testimonies of the infected survivors and testimonies of relatives who have lost loved ones, giving the film a human look that shows how our lives and human relationships have changed in the time of Corona and his enemy

Saken is an observational documentary directed by Sandra Madi set in Jordan that follows the friendship of Ibrahim, a Palestinian fedai who was injured in Lebanon while on duty before the 1982 israeli invasion on Lebanon, leading to his paralysis, and Walid an Egyptian man who has been Ibrahim's companion and caretaker for the past 15 years. Saken is a film about friendship and sacrifice, how some people’s destinies are linked and hard to be broken.

Hussain, a jovial patient, seems at home in his hospital room. Bedridden with a chronic illness, he uses his pocket tape recorder to voice his thoughts. He understands his time is near and seems to be at peace with it. When a brash, angry, young man Khalid is shifted to his room, he starts feeling protective towards him. With his life coming to an end, he makes a crucial decision – a decision that will give Khalid a second chance at life.

It is the story of two adjacent villages, between them a runner and a bridge between them and a girl enchanted on the bridge. The bridge and the cutter were lost on a long-standing enmity that continued and deepened day after day. But the cause of enmity is unknown and has nothing to do with the crucifixion of the story. In the past, the two communities gathered a relationship of friendship and love until a mysterious grudge came and separated them, making them one of the deadliest enemies. The estate of the bridge cut off the course of water heading towards the cutter's estate, causing its lands to dry up and destroy its crops. A state of explosive hatred and boiling prevailed between the two villages for a long time.

Straight out of Khartoum comes a short film featuring a collection of young men who call themselves Hip Hop Artists, In Search of Hip Hop, directed and shot by Issraa El-Kogali, offers a an inside look at a fresh new wave of creative expression in Sudan. With a recent boom in live performances and visiting DJs and MCs from Europe and the USA the Hip Hop fire is really catching on in the city of two Niles. The film features live performances, spur of the moment free-styling and footage from the first Sudan Boombox live DJ party in spring of 2010.

The painfully brutal tale of the sexual awakening of a young Palestinian man as influenced by the his libido and the violence around him. His encounter with an elderly Jewish man in Tel Aviv stirs memories and bring these feelings to a head.

Imagine that your father is a Palestinian Arab, and he had fought against Franco in the Spanish Civil War. Imagine that you have siblings, and you cannot talk to them because you do not speak the same language. Imagine that you have a family, but you were raised without parents... The film reveals the extraordinary story of a Palestinian family.

History is to be told, and its stories unfold into a territory, where the archeology of times owes its survival to fiction.

In many ways the sister film to 'Horse of Mud', Al-Abnoudy’s graduation film at the Film School in Cairo is a portrait of Cairo’s street performers. The artistry of this community of fire-eaters, acrobats, child contortionists, and musicians is captured through the lens of Al-Abnoudy’s unobtrusive camera, accompanied by the spare and haunting narration provided by poet Abdel Rahman Al-Abnoudy. Playing with the poetry that offers image and cinema, she pays tribute to those underground enterteiners, giving back its letters of nobility to a marginalized and downgraded popular art.

Mamdouh, a young man estranged from his father, starts a poultry farm on his secretary's advice. He meets his secretary's sister Aida, a young woman looking for wealth. When he introduces her to the dancer Nousa, she convinces Aida to become a belly dancer.

A journey into a strange new world. Director Qamar Abdulmalik relies on collective memories of advertisements, familiar yet artificial, to create the atmosphere of a “dream”. In that space, he renders the complex realities of nationality, country, and home.

It's about a loving-life girl who faces many obstacles in her way achieving her dream nevertheless she insists on going on.

In and around the historical ruins of Fustat in Old Cairo, tensions simmer between the site’s government-appointed guards and residents of a nearby informal settlement, al-Izba. The guards chase away looters and confiscate their equipment, while locals infuriate them by taking shortcuts through the site, occasionally stopping for a smoke. For the guards it would be easiest to keep the site closed until further notice.

Lamia, Aya and Siham suffer from the rare disease called "Xeroderma Pigmentosum", the film shows their monotonous daily lives, how each accepts their illness differently, and how each has chosen to challenge reality.

A short film about a young man who goes to movies while he is dressing like a woman. His wig is his protection, his transformation is his way of expression.