The death of the film director’s mother hit her very hard. She was just a child when this happened, and memories fade with the passage of time. Thus, the home videos that the most important woman in her life extensively shot begin to enter the picture.
Al-Qaida propaganda shows their fighters training in the Iraqi desert, carrying out attacks on convoys and barracks U.S. and Iraqi troops and patrolling the streets of the Al-Anbar towns and villages.
Accompanied by her father, who took part in the reconstruction of Beirut in 1992, Srage wanders through Dalieh, a small city-center port where the last families of fishermen are soon to be evicted as the district is privatized.
Aicha is the mother of a family of four children. The eldest, Mongi, has epilepsy and mental disabilities. From the moment she wakes up, Aicha devotes herself to caring for him. Through this documentary, we discover a glimpse of the daily life of these two inseparable souls, while revisiting moments from the past.
There are few things that do not get lost, no matter how old we are. In the memory of adults there is a childhood and in the beginning of the forest there is a tree and in the history of the walls an old inscription. The women of Asir region, southern Saudi Arabia, created the art of Qatt through abstract engraving and drawing on walls and different objects with bright colours.
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.
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.
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 Golden Failure program is a monthly initiative where the members of The Estudio group choose the worst member of the group. The program started in 2021, was temporarily put on hold, and is set to return back in 2026.
At a crossroads of borders in the Balkans, Sabina Talović, a feminist activist, faces the violence of a patriarchal system with unwavering resolve. From the Yugoslav wars to the racism of new nationalisms, her voice bears witness to how acts of solidarity are always completely different while remaining fundamentally unchanged. A humbly caring and sharp debut film by Marianna Giorgia Marchesini.
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.
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.
