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Salma gets emotionally distressed when a groom proposes to her and asks to see her for a legitimate look, and her life turns into a disturbing nightmare in a comic form punctuated by some surprises that upset the scales of events.

A short film about young man finds himself facing of boredom and loneliness, and desperately tries to find his place in the real world

The film reviews a human rights struggle between a man and a woman by raising three thorny marriage issues that no one knows the solution for it but Allah.

Um Mohamed is a proud mother of three and a wife to a polio survivor. Due to his disability, he struggles and is incapable of joining the work force. As a result, Um Mohamed roams the streets of Irbid and collects scrap metal and recyclables and sells them in a male-dominant industrial area. Though she provides for her family and has earned the title of the breadwinner, she does not earn the respect and appreciation that comes with it, as she's still expected to fulfill her cooking and cleaning duties at home.

Enya's journey trying to make it as a dancer is hindered as her behaviors drag her downhill.

A panoramic shot over the terraces of Algiers. The camera zooms in and out, seeming to unexpectedly capture the private daily conversations of the inhabitants of Algiers. With this short essay, the filmmaker wants to show "Algerian society’s openness to the world and to modern ways, as well as its contradictions with regard to traditions.”

Nazem al-Ghazali

Faiza Ahmad

Nnuba, meaning “each in turn” in the Tamazight language, is the name of a long-standing women’s self-help organisation. Its objective is for each to take their turn in grazing the village cattle. Songs, confidences, poems, life stories, laughter and tears run through and accompany this pastoral activity.

Murder For Beginners is Egyptian Short Film

A girl is chased by a demon, so her friends desperately search for her.

In the Lebanese wintery wilderness, a mini-van arrives. Two men get off the van into the cold forest and set off on their quest. The tall trees and the grey sky are their witnesses. Armored with a shovel, a rope, and an axe, they soon arrive at their destination: a lonely verdant tree amid the naked forest.

HOURIA weaves together the stories of Hattab and his grandmother Yousra to reflect on fluid modes of belonging. Yousra was expelled from her village Jamaseen Al-Garbi by Zionist paramilitary groups in 1948, and she remains witness to the decline of Jaffa’s glory where she resettled after the Nakba. On the other hand, Hattab, presented as a hybrid mermaid and a symbol of the shores of Manshiyyeh (North of Tel Aviv), embodies both the liminality of those who were driven out of Palestine and the longing desire to belong to the Palestinian nation.

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.