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- DirectorHenrika KullStarsSusana AbdulMajidMalik BlumenthalDoua RahalMaryam lives an independent life as a divorced mother of three girls. An accidental encounter with Jibril, who is serving time in prison and whom she barely knows, makes her aware of what is missing in her life. She and he elope in an ardent love affair. In the meantime, she masters the struggles of everyday life at work and at home with her children. The two of them, in search of happiness, grapple with the idealizations and projections of each other. In their yearning for one another, they attempt to fill an inner void. The attention they draw from each other ultimately becomes the measure of their self-esteem.
- DirectorMohamed MalasStarsNezar AbohajarSabah Al JazaeryFares Al-HelouThe Night is set in the village of Quneytra, which borders on the Golan, a key battlefield in the 1967 war between Syria and Israel. We are led to the grave of the filmmakers' father, an old Syrian fighter who joined the volunteer armies in Palestine in the Great Revolt of 1936. Trying to exorcise feelings of shame and humiliation that have long accompanied the image of his father and the village occupied by Israelis during the war of 1967, Malas tries to restore his father's history and give him a more honorable death. But tracing the outline of a memory tortured by burning questions finds only bitter answers.
- DirectorIra SachsStarsFranz RogowskiBen WhishawAdèle ExarchopoulosA gay couple's marriage is thrown into crisis when one of them impulsively begins a passionate affair with a young woman.
- DirectorMaryam TouzaniStarsLubna AzabalSaleh BakriAyoub MissiouiA middle-aged tailor and his wife find their relationship challenged by the arrival of a handsome new apprentice.
- DirectorDarin J. SallamStarsKaram TaherAshraf BarhomAli SulimanA 14-year-old girl in 1948 Palestine watches from a locked pantry as catastrophe consumes her home.
- DirectorKaouther Ben HaniaStarsMariam Al FerjaniGhanem ZrelliNoomen HamdaA college student seeks help after a brutal assault but faces a bureaucratic nightmare when she reveals that her perpetrators are police officers.
- DirectorAlon SchwarzStarsAvigdor FeldmanYoav GelberTeddy KatzIn the war of 1948 hundreds of Palestinian villages were depopulated. Israelis call it 'The War of Independence. Palestinians call it 'Nakba"'. The film examines one village- Tantura and why "Nakba" is taboo in Israeli society.
- DirectorLaurent CantetBenicio Del ToroJulio MedemStarsJosh HutchersonVladimir CruzMagali WilsonA lesbian, an aspiring actor, an aspiring singer, a low-class marriage, a neighborhood community and 2 renowned directors have memorable less-than-24-hour-long experiences while living in/visiting the capital of Cuba.
- DirectorJoana HadjithomasKhalil JoreigeStarsRim TurkiManal IssaPaloma VauthierThe lives of three women are connected by a box that resurfaces containing notebooks, photographs and audiotapes.
- DirectorEly DagherStarsManal IssaRoger AzarYara Abou HaidarAfter a long time gone, Jana, a young woman, suddenly returns to Beirut. She finds herself reconnecting with the familiar yet strange life she had once left.
- DirectorCorine ShawiStarsDavina MariaAndre ShawiCorine ShawiWhen her father becomes suddenly paralyzed, the filmmaker spends four years in between hospitals finding shelter, behind her camera, away from a family tragedy. Rehabilitation centers, VR experiments, fervent prayers, voice notes, love making and cemeteries are the record of a filmmaker's journey trying to amend the impossible: finding absolution for a broken family by making her father walk again.
- DirectorSara NacerStarsHasna El Becharia-"The Desert Rocker" is an intimate, witty and profound portrait of the extraordinary Hasna El Becharia, a pioneer Gnawa artist. The first musician to break through the social barrier of this culture, she empowers and inspires women of all ages by reclaiming a musical tradition reserved for men for centuries . A singularly talented artist, she leads women to redefine their roles and challenge cultural norms , one musical performance at a time.
- DirectorMohammad Shawky HassanStarsDonia MassoudAhmed El GendyNadim BahsounPop clichés are twisted with the love between two men who encounter a polyamorous chorus of lovers.
- DirectorEliane RahebStarsRuben CardosoMiguel JelelatyFrançois NourA gay man confronts the ghosts of his past and explores hidden longings, unrequited love and tormenting feelings of guilt.
- DirectorNadine LabakiStarsClaude Baz MoussawbaaNadine LabakiYvonne MaaloufA group of Lebanese women try to ease religious tensions between Christians and Muslims in their village.
- DirectorAlisa BergerStarsLars RudolphZita AretzBéla Gabor LenzWhen his two mature children Anton (19) and Linda(19) start leaving the house, as they just have graduated from school, father Michael(55) stops taking care of his body as a protest. His son Anton takes part in a bed-rest-study to contribute to space-travelling, while his sister Linda is in search of her first love and is drawn to a young man, who seems to have similar problems like her father. The film is a poetic story about the progression of thoughts and dreams to go to space and about the organic beauty of the human body, its desires and longings.
- DirectorMaysaloun HamoudStarsMouna HawaSana JammeliehShaden KanbouraThree Palestinian women living in an apartment in Tel Aviv try to find a balance between traditional and modern culture.
- DirectorMohamed SabbahStarsCharbel KamelMohamad Al KhansaCaroline HatemOmar, a photographer, has a special experience with death. He is trying to express it through a new project. One day, three photo sessions and witnesses. Between the walls of a studio, one photographer and three people meet up after a casting. Bodies express stories of sex, love and trauma in the city of Beirut.
- DirectorJake WitzenfeldStarsKhader Abu SeifFadi DaeemNaeem JiryesA feature documentary that follows the lives of three gay Palestinian friends exploring their national and sexual identity in Tel-Aviv during the Israel-Gaza conflict of 2014.
- DirectorNada Mezni HafaiedhStarsAmina Ben IsmaïlFethi AkkariSana Ben Cheikh LarbiShams must live in the shadows. At 23, life is steeped in secrecy and an unimaginable pain. Stripped of the right to exist, Shams is shunned by true love and rejected by society's rigid norms and expectations.
- DirectorLina SoualemStarsHiam AbbassUm AliNemat AbbassYears after leaving her Palestinian village to pursue an acting career in France, Hiam Abbass returns home with her daughter, in this intimate documentary about four generations of women and their shared legacy of separation.
- DirectorAfef Ben MahmoudKhalil BenkiraneStarsAbdallah BadisSaleh BakriAfef Ben MahmoudAida, member of a Tunisian contemporary dance troupe touring Morocco, provokes during a representation in a small Middle Atlas town, her life and stage partner Hedi, who injures her onstage triggering a series of events through a long night across a forest, on the way to the next village's doctor.
- DirectorMohamed Ben AttiaStarsMajd MastouraWalid BouchhiouaSamer BisharatA man who violently breaks free from his banal environment, evading society with its principles, codes and institutions.