Afghanistan, The Lost Truth
Director: Yassamin Maleknasr
Iran
Retrieving the lives of Afghan people after the fall of the Taliban as told through the eyes of an I...
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Edition 6
41 Films
4 Sections
Competition (19 films)
Baptists Of Iran
Director: Abbas Tabatabai
Iran
Mandaeans are the followers of John the Baptist. About 7000 of them live on the banks of Tigris and ...
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O! Capitaine Des Mers
Director: Hichem Ben Ammar
Tunisia
This documentary describes an ancestral fishing technique which still survives on the far tip of Cap...
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The Light
Director: Babak Kiarostami
Iran
Five passionate singers (3 Iranian and 2 French) set off on a "musical and human pilgrimage." In sea...
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Train To Nouba
Director: Atyiat Al Abnoudi
Egypt
Trains represent the means of changes. Different life stories meet annually during the Nouba trip. T...
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Zaman, L'Homme Des Roseaux
Director: Anwar Alwan
France - Iraq
Zaman and his wife have always lived in the marshy region south of Iraq. They made their life near t...
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A Thousand Months
Director: Faouzi Bensaidi
France - Morocco - Belgium
1981. Morocco, a village in the Atlas Mountains. A city in the distance. A child. A family facing it...
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Distant
Director: Nuri Bilge Ceylan
Turkey
A photographer who is haunted by the feeling that the gap between his ideals and his real life is gr...
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Khorma, Enfant Du Cimetiere
Director: Jilani Saadi
Tunisia
The story takes place in Bizerte, a little provincial town in Tunisia. Khorna is an aboriginal young...
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La poupee d'argile
Director: Nouri Bouzid
Tunisia
Omrane, in his forties, ex-house servant, feels so liberated when he is given the task of accompanyi...
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Mud
Director: Dervis Zaim
Turkey
This is the tragic-comic story of Ali, a "Schwejk" soldier from Cyprus, a country where the civil wa...
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Paradise Is Somewhere Else
Director: Abdolrasoul Golbon
Iran
Eidok, a Baluch young boy, would like to go to the UAE, despite the disagreement of his parents. He ...
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Silence Between Two Thoughts
Director: Babak Payami
Iran
In a remote village, a young woman is spared from execution based on a claim that "criminals must go...
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The Bookstore
Director: Nawfel Saheb-Ettaba
Tunisia
Jamil, after spending some years abroad, comes back to his country, crushed and shattered. He is off...
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The Magic Box
Director: Ridha Behi
France - Tunisia
Rafouf is a filmmaker in his early forties, married and a father of two children. He has always writ...
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To Your Beauty Lebanon
Director: Charles Kassasly
Lebanon
This feature documentary film is the story of twelve extremely talented artists/individuals, five wo...
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Zaman, L'homme Des Roseaux
Director: Amer Alwan
France - Iraq
Zaman and his wife have always lived in the marshy region south of Baghdad. They made their life nea...
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Olympics In The Camp
Director: Majid Majidi
Iran
Some kids in a camp in Afghanistan gather the bullet shells and change the war field to a playground...
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To Have Or Not To Have
Director: Niki Karimi
Iran
The film deals with the need to have a child and the suffering caused by not having one....
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Panorama (15 films)
Angel On The Right
Director: Djansud Usmonov
Tajikistan
After years in Moscow, Tbug Khumro returns to his Tajik village to tend to his dying mother Halima. ...
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Chouchou
Director: Merzak Allouache
France
Intent on finding his nephew, young North African man Chouchou disguises himself as a South American...
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Crimson Gold
Director: Jafar Panahi
Iran
A murder and a suicide occur early one morning in a jewelry store. Behind this headline lies the sto...
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David Hockney, The Color Of Music
Director: Maryte Kavaliauskas
France
The film explores David Hockney's innovative contributions to opera through his use of lighting and ...
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Fanfan La Tulipe
Director: Gérard Krawczyk
France
In the reign of Louis XV, Fanfan la Tulipe, soldier of fortune and a tireless romanticizer, is desti...
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Grazia's Island
Director: Emmanuele Crialese
Italy, France
Lampedusa, an island near western Sicily. Rural boy gangs play roughly among seaside cliffs. Husband...
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Happiness
Director: Todd Solondz
USA
The Jordan sisters live the life of the typical suburban American family in New Jersey. All three ar...
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Jimmy Scott... If You Only Knew
Director: Matthew Buzzell
USA
Best known for his impossibly high singing voice, enigmatic jazz legend Jimmy Scott has been called ...
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Labyrinth
Director: Lorne Thyssen
Switzerland
The film retraces the events which took place in Beirut between 1982, the date the Israeli troops oc...
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Le Divorce
Director: James Ivory
USA
"Le Divorce" follows the journey of Isabel Walker, a quintessential young Californian who arrives in...
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Levity
Director: Ed Solomon
USA
A teenager, Manuel Jordan, made a horrible mistake. In a convenience store robbery gone wrong, he sh...
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Sacrifices
Director: Oussama Mohammad
Syria
A huge tree and an old house stand alone. The grandfather, head of the family, suffers from death bl...
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Storytelling
Director: Todd Solondz
USA
Two different stories take place in the sadly comic world of university and high school, yesterday a...
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Swimming Pool
Director: François Ozon
France
Sarah Morton, a best-selling English mystery writer, travels to her publisher's holiday home in Prov...
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The Rain Children
Director: Philippe Leclerc
France - Korea
The Pyross and the Hydross are two people in war on a planet cut in half. The Pyross adore the sun a...
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Genuinely Japanese
Director: Ahmad Makki
Egypt
A teenager tries to watch some pornographic photos in a house full of people. Will he succeed?...
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Jawhara
Director: Hani al Shaibani
UAE
Jawhara is a child who struggles between two different worlds....
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Operation No...
Director: Ahmad Ghossein
Lebanon
The story is about four fighters that ignore all about each other except for their nicknames. They a...
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The Dream
Director: Halima Saeed Seemba
UAE
The film is about a girl who lives the past for a few moments....
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The Wind Of Beirut
Director: Fouad Alaywan
Lebanon
One fine spring day, Khibail enters his bathroom to take a shower before going to a business meeting...
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Verve
Director: Nigol Bejzian
Lebanon
Folk art always absorbed historical occurrences while shaping and influencing the embedded culture. ...
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