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The sun sets over the Bay of Algiers. The city walls start to lose their shiny white, making ro…
Yanis Koussim / Algeria, France, Qatar / Feature Narrative
Aïcha, a young long-distance runner, is pursuing her Olympic dream. Her brother Omar, a decent…
Hakim Belabbes / Morocco, Qatar / Feature Narrative
Hiding behind the glass of his moving bubble, the narrator explores the streets of Beirut while…
Sarah Francis / Lebanon, Qatar / Feature Experimental or Essay
Ahmad, a construction worker, gets tangled up in an unfortunate business deal that lands him in…
Mahmoud Al Massad / Jordan, Netherlands, Germany, United Arab Emirates, Qatar / Feature Narrative
In the state TV control room, the technical team is preparing for what is arguably the most imp…
Mohamed Adeeb / Egypt, France, Qatar / Short Narrative
On 5 January 2008, a sit-in organised by a group of unemployed youths in front of the town hall…
Sami Tlili / Tunisia, Qatar / Feature Documentary
Sana is a young mother struggling to raise her eight-year-old child in war-torn Syria in 2012.…
Soudade Kaadan / Syria, Lebanon, France, Qatar / Feature Narrative
A dialogue between two generations is represented by Tamara, the grandchild of an older Tamara…
Tamara Stepanyan / Armenia, Lebanon, Qatar / Feature Documentary
Answering the call of his homeland, of which he retains only childhood memories, 50-year-old Om…
Abdallah Badis / Algeria, France, Qatar / Feature Documentary
In post-revolution Libya, a group of women are brought together by one dream: to play football…
Naziha Arebi / Libya, United Kingdom, United States of America, Netherlands, Canada, Lebanon, Qatar / Feature Documentary
There are no longer any cinemas in Gaza due to the force of fundamentalist Islam, which sees th…
Khalil El-Muzayen / Palestine, Netherlands, Qatar / Feature Documentary
Tamara, sexy and sparkling, is a professor of biology at the American University of Beirut. She…
Dima El-Horr / Lebanon, France, Qatar / Feature Narrative
In a land dotted with killing machines, Yassine finds an easy cover-up for his crime. But even…
Rama Mari / Palestine, Norway, Qatar / Short Narrative
The film opens with a single shot showing a confrontation between Laila and Sami. Laila, a 22-y…
Aseel Mansour / Jordan, United Arab Emirates, Qatar / Feature Narrative
In the Berber-speaking world, Kabyle singer Matoub Lounès is a legend. Assassinated in 1998, he…
Régine Abadia / Algeria, France, Qatar / Feature Documentary
Off the coast of a small fishing town in the south of Lebanon, a man in his 40s is found uncons…
Rania Attieh, Daniel Garcia / Lebanon, United States of America, France, Qatar / Feature Narrative
Matthew lives with his mother, an army secretary, in Ahmadi, Kuwait. One night, she leaves him…
Hamad Al-Tourah / Kuwait, Qatar / Short Narrative
In 1977, Khalil Khalsawi, a constitutional law teacher in Tunis, is commissioned by the governi…
Mahmoud Ben Mahmoud / Tunisia, France, Qatar / Feature Narrative
'Salaam Plenty' is about the memory and erasure of the presence of Afghan cameleers in Australi…
Samira (Yasmine) Kassari / Morocco, Australia, Belgium, Qatar / Feature Documentary
Ahmad struggles to survive in the ghettos of Beirut. He cannot remember his past or where he ca…
Kasem Kharsa / Lebanon, Qatar, Iraq, Egypt / Feature Narrative