The River

The River 2021

1

As a couple are dinning in a restaurant in the Lebanese mountains, suddenly war breaks out and they are separated. After they are reunited once again, they delve deep into nature.

2021

Revoltango

Revoltango 1970

1

On a night of political turmoil, a worried couple tries to fight back the invading television images with a tango dance.

1970

Chakchouka

Chakchouka 1970

1

Iheb, a young director at the start of his film career, decides to take to the streets and ask people what the idea of their films would be if they were directors. Following everyone's ideas, Iheb decides to make a film that brings together all the ideas of the people he has interviewed and shows it to the same people to get their opinion. He ends up alone in an empty movie theater in front of a white screen.

1970

to you(th)

to you(th) 1970

1

Alain and Mira, a couple that has been together for five years, decide to have a heart-to-heart about life. They plunge into a thought-provoking conversation in which they question their own relationship and its destiny, while simultaneously reflecting on their collapsed homeland, Lebanon. They seek freedom and happiness, but would they truly reach that by escaping their country? Among all this instability and destruction surrounding them, will love alone be enough to keep them afloat?

1970

Slot in Memory

Slot in Memory 2013

1

In Slot in Memory, a 2013 short from Syrian filmmaker Khaled Abdulwahed, images of war are only visible through a tiny crack in an otherwise dark frame. Abdulwahed cuts between this crack and simple footage of children from Lebanon’s Sabra and Shatila refugee camps playing happily on a swing. Abdulwahed has said he had initially set out to tell a more direct account of war and trauma, but because he was physically unable to reach warzones inside Syria, he felt he couldn’t do such a project justice. Instead, filming the kids, he discovered the swing they were playing on had a crack in it, which inspired him to make the visual connection with the obscured war footage.

2013

Buzz

Buzz 2022

1

While her situation is deteriorating, a sick mother watches her son and daughter going through her tragedy and their new reality.

2022

Nayda ?

Nayda ? 2019

1

It all started in 1999. Two young cultural agitators launched "L'boulevard", a musical scene that was supposed to bring together a few underground groups. Against all odds, this fringe event became a groundswell. Little by little, this musical movement spreads to all artistic expressions. Street-art, comics, cinema, fashion, the "Nayda" wave is breaking all over Morocco.

2019

From the Other Shore

From the Other Shore 2022

1

Sylvana lives in Lebanon, Mohammed in New York, but when they are together, they like to go for walks. Sylvana is in a wheelchair and Mohammed is blind, so she guides the way as he pushes. They talk about the constant lack of autonomy they experience in daily life, and how the obstacles they face are not only physical but above all societal. When Sylvana was a child, other children were forbidden to play with her for fear that her disability was contagious. Although highly educated, Mohammed was unemployed for two years as a result of discrimination.

2022

Morning Fears, Night Chants

Morning Fears, Night Chants 2013

1

A young Syrian woman doesn't share her parents' beliefs, but she's still been locked up inside their belief system all her life. Because she is a young woman, her parents almost never allow her to leave the house, let alone participate in activities against the Syrian regime. But she rebels anyway. She writes and sings protest songs in secret, in the hope that they will encourage others to start thinking for themselves, and to believe in a better tomorrow with more freedom. For 37 minutes, we watch and hear about what motivates this young woman. Neither she nor the people around her ever appear identifiable on-screen. Even the voices are manipulated to keep the chance of recognition to a minimum.

2013

The Mountaineer's Daughters

The Mountaineer's Daughters 2019

7.00

How to transmit an experience? Wiame Awres questions the history of her mother Turquia, former dancer, and her grand-mother Khadidja El Djeblia, resistance fighter during the Algerian War.

2019

Utopian

Utopian 2022

10.00

А young man accidentally found himself living in utopian city; so how he interact to that.

2022

Trennung

Trennung 1970

1

Coming back to an empty home after Laila loses her lifelong partner, a portrayal of how difficult the first moments alone could be.

1970

Art

Art 1970

5.50

1970