The Afternoon Hour 2026
A quiet afternoon unfolds around a mother caught between routine and waiting. As time passes, the film gently explores absence, expectation, and the small comforts found in solitude.
A quiet afternoon unfolds around a mother caught between routine and waiting. As time passes, the film gently explores absence, expectation, and the small comforts found in solitude.
Saeed, a successful Egyptian businessman in his thirties, has built a new life in Tunisia. Outwardly confident and charismatic, he is a man used to control — in business, in life, and in his marriage. But his relationship with Donya, his introspective wife who is five years his senior, is quietly falling apart. Seeking a fresh start, the couple escapes to their private mountain chalet, far from the noise of the city. In the stillness of nature, they hope to reconnect, to talk, and perhaps to heal
a film by Aisha Al Qassab
This documentary explores the life and controversial death of Egyptian Field Marshal Abdel Hakim Amer, a close friend of President Gamal Abdel Nasser and once considered the second most powerful man in Egypt. Although his death was officially ruled a suicide after the 1967 defeat, the film presents evidence and testimonies that suggest he may have been assassinated. Through historical analysis and rare archival material, it sheds light on one of Egypt’s most debated political mysteries.
Worried about the deteriorating political situation in the West Bank, Aziza asks Tareq to leave Palestine and join the rest of his family in the US, leaving her and his grandmother alone in a state of war. Tareq takes sanctuary in Aziza’s garden, observing her seasonal way of living while confronting the difficult decision to leave.
What does it mean to be sitting among your children and grandchildren, your wife and daughters around you, while the children play inside and outside a tent—and suddenly, a single missile weighing a ton or more falls upon you, erasing every detail of life and turning it into ash and blackened land? From here, our documentary film begins—to tell the story of life before the life of that family.
Following a shrimp seller from his dawn start at the Al Jubail market to his home in Safwa, this film explores his daily hustle and the personal stories that shaped his resilience and craft.
Scream is a family drama play.
Al Danah (The Big Pearl) is a musical children play.
A comedy film about a crazy man called Darwish
A visual artist from northern Gaza returns to her destroyed studio, searching for what remains of her artwork. She tells us about her paintings in an effort to hold her art exhibition in words.
Two young women from Gaza grow-up dreaming of a society in which their hopes and aspirations can find ground to grow. But they hit against a hard reality, crueler than they had ever imagined and end up feeling ‘outside the frame'.
A juxtaposition of video, photography, and paintings intercut with an artist working on a painting that is completed at the end of the film.
The documentary explores 10-year-old Farah’s life after the war, in which she saw her best friend Mariam lose her family to a bombing. Having spent her life besieged in Gaza, Farah ponders freeing her father’s pet birds from their own cage.
Aws, a theatre actor from Gaza, returns to his destroyed neighborhood. Under the rubble of one home lies his beloved Nour, along with all their dreams of a life together.
The dancing girl loses members of the dance group, during war and asylum she begins a journey to search for them, she manages to communicate with them spiritually.
A long dark night at the Gaza Sea. The sounds of bomb, ambulances, and cries for help. The film captures the physical and metaphorical darkness enshrouding Gaza.