INTEGRATED BOUNDAIRIES 2023
This film explores self-imposed and societal confinement, offering a unique artistic journey into personal and societal constraints.
This film explores self-imposed and societal confinement, offering a unique artistic journey into personal and societal constraints.
Israeli tanks and bulldozers demolish a house that has been lived in and cherished for many years, and rip out the roots of an olive tree that was planted in anticipation of a child's birth. As the family watches the video footage, we see a deep sense of powerlessness and despair etched in their faces.
killers is everywhere
Hamida lives in one of the popular neighborhoods. His neighbors know him for his naivety, which he tries to hide by asserting that he is knowledgeable about everything and all topics, hence his nickname, “Bul Aqul,” by which he has become known among the neighborhood’s residents. Hamida does not have a job to spend his day, so you find him most of the time with his friend Othman, who lives from what he gets from the price of renting a place he inherited from his father. It seems that this situation does not please Al-Tahira, Hamida’s mother, who advised her son to look for a stable job and build a family. Hamida is very excited about the new mission.. Will he succeed in it?
A team of investigators finds themselves facing a mysterious crime, where a businessman is found murdered in an apartment without any evidence to help lead to the real criminal.
A short documentary film on coexistence and love inside a home in Sana’a.
A troubled and despairing girl grapples with the painful aftermath of her cousin Murad's suicide, struggling to comprehend the reasons behind his tragic decision. Her journey to understanding becomes even more complicated as she realizes she had never expressed her feelings of love for him
A Palestinian filmmaker is commissioned by an American organisation to make a documentary film, which is to depict Jerusalem as a city of peace and coexistence between Jews and Arabs. But while making the film, the filmmaker keeps running into situations that are very different from what he is trying to depict. The reality of things on the ground, proves to be much stronger than its representation.
In the shadow of the disengagement from Gaza, west from Ramallah, a new city is under construction, Kiriyat Sefer. In the early hours of the morning, some construction workers from a neighboring Palestinian village, Bilin, walk towards another day of work. Unemployed since the early days of the Second Intifada and drowned into financial debts, Maher Hatib, is forced to work, against his own conscience, in the new settlement that is being built on the village's lands. In a day's work, with scarce time for rest, the words tossed into the air and space open a window to the sentiments of the workers for the land they once cherished. The struggle of the workers remains silent given the paradox of their situation. Their employment supplies the occupation forces that allow the construction of the separation fence and the continuation of the future expansion plans.
In the 1980s, Jamme'a emigrated from Somalia to the city of Aden. Since then, he has been trying every day to develop his love and belonging to this land. Will he find the alternative life he has been looking for?
A short documentary about the adventure of two Saudi filmmakers who travel through the snows of Northern Europe to chase their dream during a pivotal period in their artistic careers.
A day in the life of a spoon takes a dramatic turn as the common kitchen utensil becomes the key catalyst of a prison escape that embodies the resilient spirit of the Palestinian struggle for freedom. Presented through an abstracted perspective and visual storytelling style, this poetic short takes the liberatory ideals of the now infamous Gilboa prison escape and generalizes them onto a much more encompassing demographic: freedom defenders worldwide.
Farès is a farmer in a small remote village of the Lebanese mountains. He works on the land with the help of his wife Salma and their three children. One day, he wins a contest organised by a brand of paper hankies, and receives a present in an enormous wooden crate. The unexpected gift is destined to change things forever in this once peaceful little village.
In an ironic tone, it is the story of Lotfi, an unemployed young man who never succeeds in demonstrating what a young man with a future he is. So, he returns to the neighborhood to hang out with his old companion, Hakim, a DVD salesman and feverish movie buff... But unlike the rest of the days, this new day starts on the wrong foot... It's a story whose protagonist is the many theorists of the void that occupy the least exciting corners of our society.
after a father writes a will that must be executed, Amjad moves from Baalbek to Kesrouan to carry out this will, and soon events become entangled between three individuals in order to execute it
In 2021, radioactive sand resulting from French nuclear bombs travelled in the winds all the way from the Algerian Sahara back to France. The bombs had been detonated in Algeria back in the 1960s. These returning winds were a reminder that the environmental legacies of colonialism cannot be forgotten or contained; it also raised the more pertinent question of how people live with the afterlife of toxic colonialism. ‘And still, it remains’ spends time with the residents of a village in the Hoggar Mountains of Algeria who live surrounded by ancient rock art and the legacy of France’s nuclear bombs.
After a big battle with cancer, Carine has only one solution to keep her life: organ donation. In a country where everyone is born a donor, transplantation was a realist-savior phenomenon. But if this French scenario was placed in a Lebanese setting, would Carine still be here today to tell us her story?
sabah kol yom second part
The biography of Youssef Yassine, the advisor to the founding king, who confronted the Ottomans, the British and the French and lived believing in Arab unity.