Discoveries from Saudi Arabia World Cinema

Life Jacket is a powerful award-winning documentary that takes us in a journey with some of the refugees as they share their powerful stories of fleeing the war and persecution with the hope to reach a safer place for themselves and their families. From stories of war and killing to stories of fear while trusting a simple life jacket to keep them safe while crossing the Aegean Sea to reach the Island of Lesvos, risking their lives in the hope to reach a better and safer place.

A Palestinian young man is being interrogated for crossing the border and suspected to be a terrorist while his true intentions stay hidden.

A short documentary based on the book "A Bedouin Physician".

A Syrian refugee lives in France with his French woman. His twin brother, pro the Syrian regime, arrives unexpectedly from Syria and lives with them in the same house.

Comedy plays that aim to draw a smile on the faces of Arab viewers through the topics that you talk about in a funny and humorous manner of the first degree.

In Morocco, unmarried women who become pregnant risk a prison sentence. They often don’t even dare to tell their families, for fear of exclusion and rejection. The Oum El Banine association in Agadir is there to support them, under the inspiring leadership of 62-year-old feminist Mahjouba Edbouche. She takes the girls and women under her wing, providing shelter, education, and legal assistance. To try and secure them a safe home, she also seeks ways for the young mothers to mend the relationships with their parents.

In an attempt to find meaning to the concept of ‘Home’, the filmmaker trains her camera to examine her intimate surrounding through examining her aging parents’ daily life over the course of seven years since the beginning of war in Syria.

Facing the sea, Tripoli and Lampedusa, synthesis images on one side and photographs on the other, how do these representations build our imagination?

A virtual concert by Nancy Ajram

The events take place in the fall of 2013 after the curfew decision in Egypt, where Faten is released from prison after spending twenty years due to committing a horrific crime, and Faten is forced to spend her night with her daughter Laila, who is subjected to a second trial in search of answers to silent questions about her. To pass the night in an attempt to accept each other

A Chubby kid experiences Eid for the first time of his life.

A day in the life of a rural family.

Directors belonging to the PLO film organisations were barred from entering territories under Israeli administration. Kais Al-Zubaidi sent a West-German film team into the territories occupied in 1967. They talked to Palestinian peasants and refugees and to Israeli settlers. The former have lost their fields and meadows and are to be driven further East from the camps in which they lived since 1948. The latter call their new settlement area “liberated land”.

Self-produced minimalist short screened at the Béjaïa Cinematographic Days.

The door becomes a turning point in the life of the little girl who lives with her mother.

A young man obsessed with journalism lives with his grandfather.

Blind people express their gifts.

a woman suffers from cancer

a brief look on poet Sultan Bin Farzan achievement

In a collaboration between artist Sarah Ibrahim and Mohammed AlFaraj, the film provides artistic documentation of their experiences in improvisation and trying to draw inspiration from olive tree fields and neglected brick factories around the village of El Brock in Catalonia. A state in which the body dances like a tree in the wind, to the melodies of scrap, bricks, and rusty metal.

Documenting the life of a small village in Al-Qatif Governorate.

A woman suffering from the trauma of losing her doughtier.

Shadi, a 27 year old nervous stand-up comedian, grapples with strange tendencies. His close friend knows his secret and tries to help, his girlfriend wants commitment hoping it would improve their sex life, and he visits his barbershop, much more often than needed. It is a little story of acceptance and longing to be understood and ignored.

A boy growing up in a port town in Morocco dreams of escaping into a different life than the one in store for him.

This documentary sheds light on a historical and archaeological area in Medina in which it hides in its heart a group of puzzles that raise new questions.The film portrays prehistoric human settlements and fossil structures.

A documentary film about the black Abaya.

The film documents a remarkable photography project; a group of women, from five cities in Iraq, live and work together in a traditional courtyard house in the Old City of the Syrian capital, Damascus. There they learn to take photographs, and at the same time, present their ‘life maps’ to each other; large charts full of family photos, scrawled poetry and quotations, the names of emotions and crisscrossing green, red and black marker lines, detailing all the ups and downs, forwards and reverses of their lives. With grief, humour, defiance, the women are able to unearth memories and tell stories, which have remained buried for 30 years in the course of just trying to survive devastating years of war, dictatorship and sanctions. In the end, they have woven together the threads of their individual lives into a collective fabric. And because this is a creative project, the experience is transformative; the act of remembering and listening is dynamic and productive.

In a certain moment, after the revolution that burst in Egypt in 2011 demanding the fall of Mubarak the man on top of the authority back then, Amr Bayoumi, the director, remembers that he documented the journey of the statue of Ramses II with his personal camera in 2006. The journey was from the Ramses square, one of the largest squares in Cairo, to his new place on the grand Egyptian Museum. It was the biggest transfer process Cairo streets ever witnessed, a journey that took over 12 hours in the charming Cairo atmosphere. Amr is inspired by this journey to tell the story of the relation between the authority and the people, and his personal relation with his father who was a symbol of superior authority in his youth.

This is the first animation in our 'Unfairy Tales' series that brings to life the true stories of the Syrian crisis' youngest survivors. 7-year-old Malak fled with her family from war-torn Syria and braved a dangerous journey across the Mediterranean. "I had a lot of friends, now there is no one left," Malak says.

A short film that recounts the struggle of Yemenis stranded and displaced outside of Yemen as a result of the ongoing war.

Minor girl noticed wedding preparations in her home... She was shocked because she did not expect to be the bride.

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.

Straight out of Khartoum comes a short film featuring a collection of young men who call themselves Hip Hop Artists, In Search of Hip Hop, directed and shot by Issraa El-Kogali, offers a an inside look at a fresh new wave of creative expression in Sudan. With a recent boom in live performances and visiting DJs and MCs from Europe and the USA the Hip Hop fire is really catching on in the city of two Niles. The film features live performances, spur of the moment free-styling and footage from the first Sudan Boombox live DJ party in spring of 2010.

The events revolve in a comic form about Khaled, the generous and generous man to the point of extravagance, which leads him to the point of bankruptcy and the loss of all his money, and falls in a major financial crisis, and then discovers the essence of everyone around him.

After finding a note that makes you kill people, Dali try to change the world with this note putting himself in danger and risking his own life . regarding the choices of the spectator , you will be able to decide the fate of Dali and the whole country. Dali will face a lot of dangers including the media propaganda and specially his best friend and room ate Ahmad which is only person who knows about the fact that Dali is the owner of the notebook .

After finding a note that makes you kill people, Dali try to change the world with this note putting himself in danger and risking his own life . regarding the choices of the spectator , you will be able to decide the fate of Dali and the whole country. Dali will face a lot of dangers including the media propaganda and specially his best friend and room ate Ahmad which is only person who knows about the fact that Dali is the owner of the notebook .

Recently I had a dream... I dreamt that I was a martyr.

The arrival as Syrian refugees in Norway turns into a new beginning with challenges for a Syrian man and his young son.

At the "Friendship Association for Child Protection" Angelo devotes himself to street children in Juba. He supports them medically, teaches them and tries to enable them to take their lives in their own hands. A path, he knows quite well himself.