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.
As the curtains rise on a new Hamlet's adaptation, an actor transitions to embody Ophelia and revive his late mother's legacy; a seductive understudy vies for the spotlight; a vengeful star threatens to unravel the play and everyone in it.
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.
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 little boy named Adam tries to convince his friend that his father is not a liar.
Behind you lies the sea; before you stands the enemy. This is the reality for the people of Gaza—and for Palestinian journalist Sami, who records it all with his 360° camera in the VR documentary Under the Same Sky. Driving along the Mediterranean coast in a press vehicle, he documents the war in the Gaza Strip. On one side are peaceful waters; on the other, heart-wrenching ruins.
This film tells the story of the heroic freedom of the six prisoners of Gilboa Prison, the story of the "great escape" of the six heroes of the "Freedom Tunnel" from prison, a victory for the prisoner movement. No dramatic scenes can do it justice, and this dramatic attempt of ours remains an approximation to the story of a heroic epic whose title is "victory."
Ahmad Natche's last, unfinished film premiered posthumously at Doclisboa. In "The Storyteller," we witness a rehearsal for a new play at the El Hakawati theater in Jerusalem. Ahmad Natche focuses on those watching and the empty seats of an audience yet to come, rather than on stage.
A desperate father, overwhelmed by the stress of his daughter’s critical illness in the hospital, struggles to find a way to afford her treatment. One night, driven by need, he agrees to give a stranger a ride in exchange for money.
