Rendered in Light

Rendered in Light 1970

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Left behind in a city under siege, a software engineer transforms his loneliness into a lifeline for others, creating virtual worlds of healing that defy the destruction around him. This film is an intimate portrait of resilience, exploring how one man’s compassion and creativity become tools for survival. It's a story about holding on to family through distance, building connection through technology, and refusing to let go of hope even when the world gives every reason to.

1970

Grey Glow

Grey Glow 1970

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Fifty-five-year-old Nayla is a supervisor at a factory in a Beirut suburb, and struggles to ensure her family’s survival. The war in the south of the country threatens to spill over at any moment, in a country plagued by an economic collapse. Her unemployed, alcoholic husband Mounir, an ex-Civil War militiaman, spends his time watching television. The couple’s feeling of unease fluctuates between aggression and guilt. One night, their twenty-three-year-old daughter Rania knocks over a man while driving home. Nayla is caught up in a vicious circle: She finds herself with Rania, in hospital, facing a family from “the other side.” Animosity and curiosity alternate. For the first time in a long while, Nayla does some deep soul-searching. Her relationship with her husband worsens. But the injured man's condition suddenly deteriorates and he dies. Rania is taken to prison.

1970

Habash Bash

Habash Bash 2000

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Habash Bash is a musical children play about an adventure in the jungle.

2000

Rehan's Flowers

Rehan's Flowers 1970

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A psychological thriller, Rehan's Flowers follows Zain, a hacker and flower shop owner, who manipulates those around him with deadly precision. When Nora enters his life, Zain’s obsession leads to a deadly game of betrayal, lies, and murder—until a shocking twist reveals the true mastermind.

1970

Out of Frame

Out of Frame 2024

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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.

2024

Out of Frame

Out of Frame 2012

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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'.

2012

Fragments

Fragments 2024

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A juxtaposition of video, photography, and paintings intercut with an artist working on a painting that is completed at the end of the film.

2024

Farah and Myriam

Farah and Myriam 2024

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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.

2024

Jad and Nathalie

Jad and Nathalie 2024

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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.

2024

Charm

Charm 2024

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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.

2024

Echo

Echo 2024

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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.

2024

Qalbi Bghah

Qalbi Bghah 2019

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Zainab works in event planning under her boss, Murad, who heads a major luxury hotel chain. Murad is arrogant and boastful, harshly criticizing everyone around him, especially Zainab. Then, one day, to her shock and disbelief, he suddenly proposes marriage.

2019

Homeland

Homeland 2023

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In a land we call home, a fish navigates the confines of a small glass tank, its eyes fixated on landscapes in the last lines in the glass. Trying to reach beyond, she swims slowly and then in a frenzy towards the illusion of open spaces, only to collide with the transparent barrier. As we venture through the fish´s perspective, the land undergoes surreal events until it becomes an abstracted from within. In this homeland, a fish imprisoned in a tank becomes a journey where the land dissolves, carrying within it the countless roots over centuries, undergoing cycles of death and rebirth in new forms.

2023

Through the Eye of a Needle

Through the Eye of a Needle 2022

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A personal project with a community impact that transforms individual memories of suffering into collective memory. The film depicts satirical and realistic scenes of Gaza’s public spaces, addressing deeply rooted social issues over the past fifteen years. Through digitisation and 3D modelling, it explores the city’s conceptual landscape under blockade and imagines how the current natural environment might appear.

2022