Discoveries from Jordan World Cinema

A filmmaker documents the final days of a crumbling cinema in Jordan, revealing personal stories during regional upheaval, and a quiet reflection on loss, memory, and resilience amid larger collapses.

Hadi is a Jordanian immigrant living alone in a crumbling ninth-floor apartment that feels more like a prison than a home. Far from everything he once knew, he’s haunted by nostalgia and memories of his childhood in Jordan. As the silence grows louder, he begins to battle creeping thoughts, isolation, and the quiet psychological toll of displacement. What was meant to be a new beginning slowly turns into a mental trap—where the past, the present, and his sense of self start to blur.

A short documentary that sheds the light on the harsh conditions of domestic workers in Jordan through the story of the Sri Lankan worker Asanka, who is trying to return to her homeland in various ways. and Sarah a Sri Lankan woman fighting to stay in Jordan to help migrant workers through her work as a translator in court.

After failing to obtain a travel visa to meet her family, Nadia finds herself stuck in a moral dilemma.

In a satirical comedy framework, the events of the play deal with Jordan's position on normalization with Israel after the end of the Israeli-Palestinian war with the Oslo Accords, and discusses many important political issues in the nineties

A political comedy play, demands security in an insecure region, a laughing and satirical farce about Israel's understanding of security and their demands

A critical satirical play that deals with the state of the popular and social situation, the street movement, daily events, and is presented in the form of café talk, what is happening on the ground, how the simple citizen thinks, and how governments think in their own way.

In a war zone, four-year-old FARAH and her brother RAMZY become friends with an enemy counterpart, SAMIR, turning the barren battlefield into a fantastical playground. Can the kids and the magic survive?

In the vast expanse of the desert, a determined young geologist finds herself stranded. She is the lone survivor of a group of geologists on a survey mission who drowned due to sudden rain caused by climate change. Faced with the harsh reality of her circumstances, she sets forth on a profound and introspective odyssey, A mysterious traveller with a turbulent past joins her and presents a series of puzzling challenges to inspire and motivate her. Through their shared journey, she grapples with conflicting emotions, oscillating between the unwavering hope of survival and an inner resistance to the inescapable forces of fate.

In Germany, a family of Syrian refugees of Palestinian origin is suddenly forced to cohabit with new residents: Maria and her daughter Sofia, who are fleeing the war in Ukraine.

A student losing her way is helped by an unexpected kind figure.

Following the death of his parents, a man remains in the family house. There, he reveals to his son his late father’s journal, a record of the family’s life after the destruction of their village. As they flip through its pages for the first time, the family’s history unfolds, and together they summon his father’s spirit.

A single channel video installation that explores landscape in Jordan. It runs twice, intended to be a loop.

Album By Akher Zapheer

Opening with the harrowing 2000 press footage of Palestinian boy Mohamad al-Durra’s death in his father’s arms, Eliane Raheb’s film becomes both witness and participant. Her camera travels through Lebanon, Jordan, and Egypt, tracing the lives of countless “young Mohamads” - children forced to grow up too soon in a world shaped by the intifada. As the journey unfolds, the filmmaker’s quest becomes deeply personal, prompting her to reflect on her place within the Arab world and to question her relationship with Palestine.

The documentary film "Former Freedom Fighter" documents the lives of fighters who carried weapons in defense of Palestine and spent years of their lives in the occupation's prisons. After their liberation, they lived a life different from the one they had dreamed of.

An uncovered archive recounts my childhood through sketches, scribbles, and a forgotten love poem.

A group of delightful teenage girls who have all fled to Germany find their own creative ways to overcome hidden discrimination in a film about friendship, sisterhood and living your dreams.

From JadaL's performance in Tunisia 22 Jan 2023 @ Carthage music days festival

Lin Alluna's 2016 documentary following a couple from Jordan

A viral Instagram account, a bold fashion line. One young Palestinian man shows the Arab they don´t have to tap into the Western zeitgeist, they can create their own.

A Projectionist Barricades himself inside the last remaining art house cinema in Bethlehem before it gets demolished

After their father is taken during the ground invasion, two sisters are forced to cross a shattered landscape in search of safety. Raneem must guide her blind younger sister, Aseel, through a world of fear and uncertainty — becoming her eyes in a war no child should have to see.

The fate of Jordan's first Olympic boxer will be decided not in the ring, but on the streets.

In a powerful and tension-filled drama, “White Dwarf” explores the story of Ayham, a scrapyard guard living under harsh conditions. He faces a situation that unveils his repressed anger, leading to a breaking point that changes everything.

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.

Two lovers exchange voice messages as they navigate their long distance relationship and the political atmosphere of where they're from.

A farce, discussing many Jordanian political issues, and the suffering of the people with increasing taxes, so many resort to selling everything they own to provide for the necessities of life

The play discusses in a comic context what is happening in the Arab world after the Arab Spring, and the revolutions that took place in many Arab countries, and simulates in a political form the human rights that were wasted during that period

A critical satirical play that deals with the state of the popular and social situation, the street movement, daily events, and is presented in the form of café talk, what is happening on the ground, how the simple citizen thinks, and how governments think in their own way

A play inspired by the speech of the ousted Tunisian President (Zine El Abidine Ben Ali) on the eve of his flight from his country, and the work presents the character of (Abu Saqr), a tyrannical head of a family in his home who deafens his ears to the demands of his children and his wife, whose ceiling has risen and all the concessions made by (Abu Saqr) have become unacceptable to them because of his stubbornness and lack of awareness of the needs of his family

Abla is a portrait of a Palestinian refugee woman in her fifties, a compost expert and trainer in one of the world's poorest countries in water, Jordan. Despite all challenges, she works hard to realize her dream of designing a naturally generative land

Citizens of Amman explore the meaning of good citizenship and its implications.

Cinema Palestine features interviews with a wide range of film and media makers as well as excerpts from award-winning films to outline the emergence of the Palestinian narrative through film. Cinema Palestine also explores the implications of this important cinema on Palestinian national identity and the relationship between art, personal experience, and politics.