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With rare access to the governor of Ramallah and el-Bireh, this film offers an intimate portrait of life under Israeli occupation in the West Bank. Over one month, Governor Laila Ghannam navigates her city, which is marked by protests, mourning, celebration and resilience. Amid political tensions, she reveals how Ramallah functions under occupation – how it breathes, resists and supports its most vulnerable. Moving between high-level politics and everyday encounters, Ghannam reflects on the emotional and political landscape of her people, offering a powerful glimpse into the quiet strength and steadfastness of Palestinians.

During the New Year’s celebrations, Adam hides a quiet sadness — until an unexpected gift begins to lift his spirits.

There are few things that do not get lost, no matter how old we are. In the memory of adults there is a childhood and in the beginning of the forest there is a tree and in the history of the walls an old inscription. The women of Asir region, southern Saudi Arabia, created the art of Qatt through abstract engraving and drawing on walls and different objects with bright colours.

In Aswan, Hassan arrives in the village coming from Cairo, trying to get to the lives of his local friends and learn about the details of their own daily routine, but soon he meets Eissa.

The film takes place in the heart of Cairo's hustle and bustle, where a young couple tries to sell their car before traveling abroad, but the husband remains torn between leaving the country with his family or staying in Cairo alone.

Through the lens of a Syria scarred by twelve years of war, the 2022 World Cup sparks flickers of joy, tension, and memory. Football becomes both refuge and battleground – a game that binds and divides, stirring questions of identity, loyalty, and loss. As cheers rise for distant nations, the dream of local pride hangs in the air like smoke. In living rooms and cafés, the screen offers escape – and reveals a fractured nation searching for something to hold onto.

Richard and Kim co-create imagined moments of their future together; moments shadowed by Kim's sudden autism diagnosis and looming illness. As Richard cares for his partner, he is forced to confront a buried childhood trauma: the helplessness of watching his mother die. This hybrid film becomes an intimate portrait of love, loss, and the ghosts we carry, weaving a raw, emotional journey through memory, imagination, and the fear of failing those we love most.

After graduation, Salem returns home only to have his hard-earned degree suddenly rejected by the Department of Equivalency. Facing financial ruin and shattered dreams, he sinks into crisis. Just when hope seems lost, a mysterious company called "Your Excellency" offers him a risky chance to reclaim his future, forcing Salem to confront the true cost of survival.

On the eve of his most personal play, Khalid, a struggling theater director, seeks escape in drugs and solitude. His night is disrupted by a low-ranking police officer sent to write a report about the performance. What begins as routine spirals into a surreal night of hazy focus, uneasy conversation, and unexpected connection. As boundaries blur and confessions surface, the two men, each quietly battling his own collapse, discover in each other a reflection they didn't expect, and a mirror they can't ignore.

Ala'a is a high-achieving university student, torn between ambition and suppressed desire. When his friend Yazan draws him into a momentary escape through prostitution, their decision spirals into a harrowing trap of blackmail and guilt. As consequences close in, Ala'a is forced to confront the darkness behind his choices, and the cost of crossing the line.

At Salt’s historic boys’ school, five teens begin their final year as war intensifies in Gaza. Caught between the familiarity of tradition and the pull of digital transformation, they come of age amid rising tensions and a shifting sense of stability. As the outside world seeps into their everyday lives, they search for connection, identity, and hope in a time when growing up feels both accelerated and uncertain.

In a dreamlike world where reality blurs into symbolism, a woman journeys through landscapes shaped by her past relationships, both soulful and romantic. Along the way, abstract trials and recurring symbols, especially fruit, guide her path. As she moves deeper into this emotional terrain, the line between clarity and confusion fades. Ultimately, she learns that true understanding comes not from grasping every answer, but from embracing the mystery at the heart of human connection.

After a failed audition unsettles the confidence of Sami, a once-adored actor. While waiting for the re-audition, he wanders through a series of strange encounters, pushing him to confront the cracks in his identity and the reflection he has been avoiding.

In the film "Beyond The Shifting Sands", the boundaries between the documentary, the real, and the imagined are blurred. Ultimately, it offers no definitive answers but instead positions the viewer on the very threshold where the artists stand: the threshold between what we know and what we are yet to discover. It is there, where the sand becomes memory, the image an indelible trace, and identity a promise renewed with every glance. This is a film about art as a state of life, and the human beings seeing themselves in a sketch that takes shape only to gradually fade away — as if beauty is not drawn to endure, but rather to offer a reminder that everything we seek... may, in fact, reside within the drawing of the sand itself.

The cycle resets. Shot on Super 8 black-and-white film and developed at home.

In recent years, Lebanese municipalities have imposed curfews restricting the freedom of movement of Syrian workers, who are thus prohibited from walking the streets after dark. Filmed in Lebanon, Lebanese Nights highlights the different facets of Lebanese and Syrian experiences related to curfew, through a gallery of places and characters: from local residents to migrant workers to sectarian vigilantes who impose their own curfew.

Amidst the devastation of the genocide carried by Israel in Gaza, a group of circus performers refuse to let despair take center stage. One More Show follows The Free Gaza troupe; Youssef, Batout, Ismail, Mohamed and Just, after being displaced from northern to southern Gaza, as they turn their craft into an act of defiance, resilience, and hope. As death hovers in the background, the troupe performs for children in shelters and on the streets, offering moments of joy in the darkest of times.