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A tormented young man constructs an ingenious devise to rescue his father from Abu Ghraib prison. What he finds there is far from his expectations, revealing the mistreatment and torture of prisoners. His hopes and dreams for a brighter future are dashed upon finding his father.
The camera wanders through streets standing witness to a war that has destroyed a city and an entire nation. Bagdadi goes to war against the Lebanese civil war, exploring different locations and situations in a country faced with its own demise. The poetic text raises questions of life and death through contrasting images of violent death and the will to live.
In a rolling area of Syria, the villagers live their everyday life, in toil and poverty. Trapped between the hardships of farming, religious and political ideologies, they barely survive. Their children are the only ones that are still full of hope. They imagine their future lives and picture themselves as doctors or engineers. But these are pipe dreams. All they can actually look forward to is farming the land with primitive tools like their parents, getting a menial job in the city or becoming brainwashed soldiers..
Explores the daily life and work of children in Abnoud, a rural village located 600 kilometres to the south of Cairo, where the trains that carry the tourists to the south of Egypt pass through without stopping. A boy outsmarts the meagerness of his circumstances by dripping goat’s milk on a piece of stale bread and turning it into a special sandwich.
Tunisia's transition to independence, an epic era of social and political change, a new face of reality that brings confusion to the youth.
Love blossoms between Rabah and her cousin Mosbah, but when a man who aids the French occupation kidnaps her, Mosbah's attempt to rescue her fails. As he gets arrested and sentenced to three years in prison, he vows revenge.
A man and a kid escape from men chasing them.
The population of Saraqeb in Syria expresses the ongoing misery in their country and the changes after the revolution through graffiti. The walls are the basis for their existence, providing protection from outside violence. They also bear the names of martyrs, common expressions, poetry, revolutionary slogans and other graffiti. The documentary Lovers' Notebooks was shot over three years and is the first film by Saraqeb inhabitant and media activist Eyad Aljarod who directed it with Canadian-Syrian Aliaa Khachouk. The film reveals the constant tension between the revolt-sparked energy and a sense of despair, between leaving a place and the decision to return, between the euphoria about the beauty of an image and the fear of war. During the film and during the night, the walls of Saraqeb are filled with text like a lover's notebook.
People search for unspoken or even absolute truths when it comes to the notions of life and death. Fertility is associated with the miracle of creation, but for countless women around the world it is not necessarily a happy subject. MOTHER OF THE UNBORN looks compassionately at this deeply felt experience.
Smile, and the World Will Smile Back”, a documentary film by the al-Haddad family of Hebron made in collaboration with Ehab Tarabieh and Yoav Gross – volunteer photographers in B'Tselem's camera project and filmmakers, respectively – is to be screened as part of the short film competition at the Berlinale International Film Festival. The film documents one winter’s night at the al-Haddad home in the Palestinian town of Hebron. A group of soldiers arrives for a routine night search there, for reasons unknown to the family. Diaa and Shatha al-Hadaad, brother and sister, pick up the home video camera and record the events as they unfold throughout the night. The soldiers force Diaa to stand facing a wall, saying they won’t leave unless he stops smiling.
The voice of a new generation rocks and rhymes as Palestinian rappers form alternative voices of resistance within the Israeli-Palestinian struggle.
A seventy-year-old veteran of the Algerian War of Independence speaks about his years of struggle as an underground soldier for the National Liberation Front.
Erase is a period piece in the fictional world of the 1940's. During World War II a German doctor found a method to predict if an unborn child is going to commit murder at some point in his life. 20 years later, in the 1960's a journalist interviews Dr. Klein and reveals one of the doctor's past cases.
It is the story of Shireen and her husband and their countless attempts to have a baby, amid checkpoints and limitations on access to health care imposed by the Israeli occupation. The film highlights the difficulties of receiving care for their sick child and thus having a family in the context of an occupied Hebron.
Nightmares wake Dr. Fares and make him obsessed with finding out why he keeps dreaming about visiting his mother, who died a year and a half ago. This leads him to reopen the case of her death, and that's where the events of the film begin, combining drama, suspense, and investigation. The stages of the story are inspired by a true story, and the protagonists of the film are Dr. Faris, his wife Inès, and the housekeeper Sawsen.
A family living in a country at war spends the night together. Their conversations revolve around the everyday and survival.
Scarred Baghdad 2003... confusion, uncertainty and death engulf the bombed ruins of a Psychiatric Asylum. Voyeuristically we move between the past and the present of three Iraqi lives entangled by the chaos of the American 'Shock and Awe' campaign...
A film about a brilliant detective who fails to notice the danger standing right before him..until an unexpected package arrives, disguising itself as a game linked to a long-forgotten case from his past. As time closes in, the film challenges his intellect. Will he uncover the truth before it’s too late?
Mawahib Band : Pray Guardians is a short musical show
A kidnapped teen discovers the horrifying truth about his kidnapper.
Like the rest of his family, Saad is devoutly religious and observant, calling the faithful to prayer in his mosque. When his beloved nanny dies, he is shocked to learn she remained a Christian, but just as shocked when his father refuses to pay for the care of her corpse and accuses his so of weak faith for even considering it. Saad prays for divine guidance, but it is his human feelings are already telling him what he must do next.
The story follows a lonesome middle-aged man who works as a driver for hire (which is a common side hustle in Saudi Arabia for people looking to earn more money), the main character goes through a series of circumstances that force him to make difficult decisions.
Short documentary about Quwaizah neighborhood in Jeddah. Quwaizah is one of the evacuated neighborhoods, which were regarded as "slums" to be demolished and repurposed for large scale urban remodelling.
Director Maryam Alabbad exposes the intricacies of desire in life within limited choices in the film "The Fifth Sparrow."
Aliyah a single mother who works as an Uber driver, faces a range of societal obstacles during her day job
A lonely grandmother living in a neighborhood full of strangers, must confront her stubbornly independent nature, when she accidentally causes a pot of boiling rice to overflow, and turning into a flood threatening her house and neighborhood.
Set in the world of Bathaikha, where weirdness knows no bounds, Ras B Ras revolves around the misadventures of Darwish (Adel Redwan), a bumbling chauffeur, who mistakenly picks up a retired crime lord from the airport and ends up being ruthlessly pursued by the old man’s gang to return him in one piece. Darwish, Abu Ghadrah (Ziyad Alamri) and the newly appointed CEO of Sheikhs’ chauffeur limo company, Fayadh (Abdulaziz Alshehri), are on a mission to mislead the gang into believing that the man is still alive, igniting a wild and transformative adventure.
The film follows the story of Osama – a young man caught in a quarrel between his emotions and memory as he tries to find a thread leading to answers. He tries to awaken the part of himself that gives him reason, but his reasoning is brutal, maybe even abusive.
A hectic short film that sarcastically mimics the repetitive scenarios of the Gulf state's annual TV dramas.
A sick restaurant owner try to convince his daughter to bring a new person to help her run the restaurant.
Shams is a very beautiful young woman who was raised in the confines of her stepfather, El-Ghali, who had no children, without knowing that he is not his real father. Al-Ghaly loved Shams so much that he refused anyone who offered to marry him, and more than that, he moved her with his mother to the village and forced him to wear the veil to hide its charms from the youth of the tribe. But when love knocks on his door with a young man called "Mamoun", Al-Ghaly decides to lock him up and prevent him from going out.
Two men trapped in a house for several months due to a disaster that hit the country.
The film depicts children trying to create space for them in a city that lacks space for fun, creating their own playground on the streets.
Salma Shamel’s Those That Tremble as if They Were Mad is a wry lamentation of a future not grasped. In the aftermath of Egypt’s 2011 revolution a government committee was set up to compile an archive of the revolution’s events, only to be dissolved following a coup. Through a parade of the committee’s ephemera of CD-ROMs, certificates and contracts, Those That Tremble mourns what could have been, to a soundscape of mass distress.
Working underground in the year before the legalization of cinema in Saudi Arabia, a team of mostly women makes its first feature film. Anonymous accounts of their experience are brought together in a melancholic narration. In the spirit of first films, a filmmaker documents the production in Jeddah with his first video camera from childhood.
A young woman who is seemingly being prepared for an arranged marriage. The use of dramatic camera angles, changes of film exposure and camera focus, all serve to express her inner state of agitation, but the story is more implied than spelled out.
The life of St. Anastasia of Alexandria
Silence is the only sound in the city of Ghabra. Any form of expression is met by death. Chadi Aoun's animated short exposes the secret codes of silent creative resistance in the authoritarian darkness of a dysfunctional society.
While her father was in his deathbed, she and her nieces were playing in the rain.
By focusing on the experiences of 25-year-old Nadine Zaidan, who was one of the thousands of activists who gathered in Beirut’s Martyrs’ Square in the chaotic days immediately following the assassination of Prime Minister Rafiq Hariri in February of 2005, Beirut Diaries explores critical transformations and crucial questions facing contemporary Lebanon. With this insightful video diary, director Mai Masri chronicles the political ferment embodied in the March 11th Movement, also known as The Cedar Revolution, as people of all factions, ages and religious affiliations passionately debate such issues as Syria’s influence in Lebanese politics, the establishment of an international commission to investigate Hariri’s assassination and the organization of free parliamentary elections.
When a young boy finds a key to the empty mansion down the street, he lets himself and his imagination run wild in the big house. His little adventure creates a lyrical allegory for the Yemeni revolution.
Saudi cinema is currently in a period of change, moving from an early stage of development toward a more structured industry. This transition raises questions about when and how real improvement will happen in areas such as storytelling, production, and audience impact. The discussion focuses on the current state of this change and whether it has already led to noticeable progress or is still in progress.
Far from home, university students Saud and Hamoud share an apartment while navigating the chaos of student life, facing humorous moments, financial struggles, and the challenges of growing up in a new city.
Youtube short film
The story revolves around Dr. Waleed, a successful cosmetic surgeon, who returns from a trip to discover that his suitcase has been switched with a mysterious one belonging to someone else. From here begins a series of surprises and problems that threaten his reputation and his family, as he tries to understand the reason behind this switch And to find the real owner of the bag to restore his normal life.
A descent into a fractured perception where reality and illusion gradually blur, leaving no certainty in what is real
Three friends attempt to steal a prize necklace from a wealthy business leader before finding themselves in prison.
The moving image portrait investigates the persistent gaze of webcams and the uneasy intimacy the generate within online spaces. It explores how individuals, often unknowingly, become digital subjects. Their gestures, expressions, and everyday moments are captured, fragmented, and fed into vast networks of circulation. These fleeting traces are no longer just personal moments; they are repurposed, analysed and absorbed into systems that commodify presence.
Tasked with finding his grandfather's hidden legacy, Faris battles ruthless villains and deadly odds to uncover a secret worth dying for.
Habash Bash is a musical children play about an adventure in the jungle.
Is It Corona? is a family comedic play about Corona.