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Saharawi women have always been at the forefront of the resistance against colonialism and the plunder of their territory by Morocco. In spite of Morocco’s repression, intensified by the collapse of the ceasefire with the Polisario Front in November 2020, activists living under occupation gathered to document the violence perpetrated against their daughters, mothers, sisters and grandmothers since 1975. This documentary explores this historical process through the voices of its protagonists in their triple roles as victims, researchers, and international activists. A sensitive and close analysis of these experiences is complemented by animations and statistics little known to the general public. The result is an astonishing record of the gravity and extent of the violence exercised by Morocco against women, but also a photograph of colonialism from a gender perspective that emphasizes the unwavering strength of these activists to fight for their people’s rights.

The story of a Palestinian family living in Jerusalem, as told through a cat and the everyday objects of the house they’ve kept in the family for over 73 years despite pressures to move.

Cut! depicts the sporadic circulation of limited electricity in Al-Zahra, which “israel” besieged with airstrikes on October 19, 2023… In the film, a mother lights a room with her cell phone, a local electrician is harassed for cutting power in one neighborhood to pass it on to another, and no one seems to know when and where the power will return next.

A short documentary film of 16 minutes that presents the searching phase that the director of the film went through after her interrogation and arrest by the Israeli occupation forces in Jerusalem, that phase led her into seeing everything differently, her connection with her home and the streets changed, she felt like everything around her is pushing her to leave her own city Jerusalem, but after she left the city there was something that still drags her to it, this contradictory relationship with the place made always searching, she made this film as a mean for her search in her surrounding.

In this documentary film, we explore the emotions of the fear residing within us; perhaps speaking about it can empower us to overcome or accept it.

Ramzi spends his time alone at home. He found refuge in his studio, crouching over his piano as if it was his last prayer. It was not the noise of the world outside that bothered him. It rather inspired him at some moments in his journey. Ramzi found peace in himself. He said what he had to say and left us his music. Will all these unfinished melodies pave a way out to freedom?

Short Movie by Ali Al Ghazouli

In this film Rana Abushkaidem and Mira Jibreen take us on a diary journey in present time Palestine. The filmmakers saw present Palestine in the archives and connected the images of Deir Hanna (1948 occupied Palestine) with a voiceover from the present about Wadi Foukin in the West bank (1967 occupied Palestine). They pay tribute to Raja Khateeb, a farmer and public political figure who appears in the footage. - Mahasen Nasser-Eldin for BlackStar

A documentary interview with Khookha McQueer a queer visual and performing artist, non-binary transgender activist. Active in raising awareness of the rights of people living with HIV. Discussing her personal experience, sexual health and people living with HIV’s condition in Tunisia.

Nourhane was a singer and actress, active between the 1940s and the 1960s. In the mid-1960s, she abruptly ended her career. Her granddaughter, May Kassem, uncovers layer after layer of her grandmother's life to uncover the reason for her departure from the stage.

"I Will Take the Sun Into My Mouth" is a video installation that explores the idea of recollecting memories throught visural storytelling. Inspired by the color blue, the piece plays between reality and recollected memories.

Although she now lives in the UK, some of Jamal Al-Lail's most precious childhood memories come from growing up in the sacred city of Makkah where her father was a mutawwif, or guide for pilgrims. In reflecting on the timeless nature of her own purpose in life, which she locates in the interplay between travel and transformation, she found herself reminiscing about those cherished days. The resulting film Here and There paints a nostalgic picture of pilgrimage, eschewing narrative for an accumulation of so many little quieter moments of faith. It was shot on a handheld camcorder to recreate the wobbles, washed out palette, and grainy visual artefacts of older technologies, and mirror the memories imprinted on her own mind.

Since 1969, the Modca Café on Hamra Street has been synonymous with Beirut. Now, after more than thirty years, it is being demolished. In the young people fighting helplessly to preserve this embodiment of the city’s memory, we see a longing for and a vicarious experience of ‘social activism’. The camera attempts to resist traditional video activism as it accompanies these young people. Moving into the fluorescent light of the newly built mass retailer, the identity of the city is superimposed onto the fate of the café. A bold documentary essay that attempts to awaken various collective memories.

They were orphans, the children of martyrs of the Palestinian revolution in the late sixties. These boys and girls lived and studied in a mixed orphanage in Mount Lebanon in the town of “Souk el Gharb”. It was a challenging existence for these young students. Some of them found salvation in the folk troupe founded by artist Abdallah Haddad in the early seventies. As they mastered cultural traditions, they became icons of the Revolution and toured the world in an era of global solidarity with the Palestinian cause. Decades later, the hundreds of martyrs’ children, now adults, are dispersed in several countries. The long abandoned orphanage still stands bearing the scars of civil war. Memories of this time of geopolitical and personal conflicts are revisited through the memories of former students who share personal narratives of displacement, martyrdom, loss and deprivation, and stir questions related to identity, sacrifice and homeland.

Saeed is a young man sees his life in Black and White, but there is a few things can bring back the Colors to his life, and he wants to feel something through them.

A lonely chair on an abandoned balcony, a photographer watching it days and nights, a strange thing happens that will change the life of the chair forever.

Dana becomes a local hate figure when she turns her father’s house on the quiet island of Dalma into a holiday rental

Abood, a designer who works in a creative advertising agency. One time he wakes up to find himself imprisoned in a difficult situation that affects his career