The film follows Rabah, a television presenter in his early thirties, who is witty and mediating but also pretentious, as he finds himself in an embarrassing professional predicament when his bite is accidentally exposed live on air.
Mounir, a young dancer, has crossed the sea, fleeing the shifting winds of a France that’s closing in on itself. There, the sun feels familiar, but the walls speak another language. A conversation with Keltoum rekindles his doubts: how does one find a place to call home? Between two shores, an intimate journey through invisible borders and the deep longing to belong.
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.
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.
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.
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.
The unexpected departure of a long-time colleague from Ayda's call centre shakes up her routine. Having harboured unspoken feelings for him, Ayda is thrown into a series of events that force her to rethink her life, her relationship with time, her surroundings, and herself.
A building on the outskirts of Tunis, built by Italians in 1905, was transformed into a special refuge during the COVID-19 pandemic. Eight residents of various origins have taken shelter here, living in isolation from their loved ones and the rest of the city, from which they are also culturally distant. The filmmakers capture their nomadic existence not only in interviews, revealing the peculiarities of these unique personalities, but also in poetically stylized sequences that give the house an almost magical dimension of a transitional, mystical space.
This visual-performative essay weaves an associative network of images between the symbolic resonances of pomegranates and the image of grains of sand carried by the wind from the sea and settling in the dunes. A group of young performers scatter sand in urban gardens and ruins, their slow, deliberate movements alternating with surreal images of hands floating above the sea and an island emerging from the sand.
The story of a woman suffering from Alzheimer’s disease and her childhood love — told in parallel with that of a commander, a veteran of the Sand War, who wishes to reconnect with his daughter and mend the pieces of a lost love.
When 350,000 Moroccans embark on a peaceful march in 1975, a wife's quiet vigil at home becomes as heroic as her husband's desert odyssey-until a radio broadcast transforms waiting into celebration and private devotion into public triumph.
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.
