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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.

Two years after the woman who once bound them together passes away, Alaa and Mostafa sit down with their love and pain. They begin to speak of feelings that had long remained unspoken. With each moment, they return to a time when Maha was still with them.

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.

Zizou, a 13-year-old overweight boy, sets out to befriend the neighborhood's most popular kid. However, his relentless attempts leave him vulnerable to unexpected ridicule, stirring unresolved feelings.

Left Hook: Women Boxers of Gaza is a documentary that tells the story of the first women's boxing team in Gaza.

Two lovers exchange voice messages as they navigate their long distance relationship and the political atmosphere of where they're from.

When her older sister gets kidnapped on the eve of Eid by the evil sorcerer, Oud Al-Shadaab, a young girl goes on a magical journey to his kingdom of everlasting night to save her before her entire family is plunged into darkness forever.

Al Maram is a portrait of Maram Humaid, a Palestinian journalist displaced to Gaza after October 7, 2023, like her ancestors during the Nakba. Maram continues to work as a journalist to report the reality of the genocide to the world.

A suicidal person believes everyone deserves to die, but he soon discovers that he desperately needs help. Death is not a solution.