Voices from Gaza Episode 1 Ahmad's Story

Voices from Gaza Episode 1 Ahmad's Story 2025

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This is the first installment of the "Voices from Gaza" documentary project, which aims to deliver to the world the current state of the Gaza Strip in Palestine in 2025, a state that cannot be fully conveyed through fragmented news footage or social media videos, at a speed faster than a typical film release. Ahmad Al-Gharban, a 16-year-old boy from Beit Lahia in northern Gaza, survived an Israeli attack on March 22, 2025, but lost both legs and his fingers. His twin brother, Muhammad, his uncle, and a 6-year-old cousin were also killed. Ahmad began studying circus music at age 7 with his deceased brother, and dreamed of becoming a performer. Ahmad and his family currently live in a refugee camp where drones fly overhead 24/7. The camp is located on the site of the former Islamic University of Gaza.

2025

Zikrayat

Zikrayat 1967

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A wayward son from a poor family chooses a life of vice, a path that ultimately leads him to a tragic end.

1967

Imagine Me Like a Country of Love

Imagine Me Like a Country of Love 2026

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Thana Faroq returns to Yemen after a decade of geographical and emotional separation. Oscillating between personal drawings, intimate voice recordings and footage from the streets of Yemen, her thoughts about home take on new forms.

2026

Negligence

Negligence 2025

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A film about a brilliant detective who fails to notice the danger standing right before him..until an unexpected package arrives, disguising itself as a game linked to a long-forgotten case from his past. As time closes in, the film challenges his intellect. Will he uncover the truth before it’s too late?

2025

Qahera

Qahera 2025

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Qahera is a short film that explores the complex relationship between a person and a place through a deeply personal lens, reflecting on the rapid transformations happening in the city of Cairo. Rooted in a personal experience, the film traces the director’s early passion for photography—sparked at the age of 10 when his father gifted him his first camera. Since then, photography has become a tool for seeing, processing, and understanding the world around him.

2025

Perfect harmony

Perfect harmony 2024

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The Lebanese filmmaker makes several trips from Germany back to her home city of Beirut over the course of the three years following the onset of a catastrophic economic collapse in the country in 2019. She tries to make sense of a life enmeshed in crisis, born of one and heading towards another one.

2024

The Purple House

The Purple House 2015

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Hsan, an unemployed man in his fifties, has been looking for work for quite some time, but without success. On his wife's insistence, he decides to go and see Ammar, a local politician, to ask for help. Ammar agrees to find him a job under one condition: that he paints his house purple - the color of the ruling party, adding a splash of color amid the uncertaim of the Tunisian Revolution.

2015

Abbès ou Joha n'est pas mort

Abbès ou Joha n'est pas mort 1986

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Set in contemporary Morocco, the film follows Abbès, a marginal yet perceptive figure who embodies a modern incarnation of Joha, the legendary folk character known for his wit and subversive wisdom. Through his wanderings, ironic remarks, and seemingly absurd situations, Abbès exposes the contradictions and failures of society social injustice, hypocrisy, abuse of power, and collective disillusionment.

1986

15 Kmmotor-sports

15 Kmmotor-sports 2008

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A motor-sports spectacle that kicks up plenty of dust. On the trail of the 2007 Dakar Rallye '7915 KM' undertakes a search, along the way encountering the variety to be found in Africa's present in Morocco, Sahrawi Republic, Mauritania, Mali and Senegal. '7915 KM' demonstrates the extent of this distance, which is the result of political and economic conditions.

2008

Selfies

Selfies 1970

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In Selfies, Reema Mahmoud, a displaced woman in Gaza, shares her struggles during the war through a letter in a bottle in which she talks about the beautiful life she once had. She hopes her message will inspire people to appreciate their lives and cherish peace.

1970

Escape from Farida

Escape from Farida 2025

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A film about a young man whose aspirations are shattered in the alleys of a city altered by war. He tries to rid himself of his past and leave. However, he must confront his fiancée Farida with his decision to leave the city, igniting memories and contradictions within him.

2025