Arbaa' Banat
Director: Hussein al Hulaybi
Bahrain
Four girls from different backgrounds become friends by coincidence. They decide to start a car wash...
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Edition 8
28 Films
4 Sections
Competition (5 films)
Captain Abu Raed
Director: Amin Matalqa
Jordan
Abu Raed is an aging airport janitor who is mistaken for an airline pilot by a group of poor neighbo...
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Junun (Demences)
Director: Fadhel Jaïbi
Tunisia
An exceptional and exciting meeting between a daring psychologist and "Nun", a semi-delinquent young...
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Roma Rather Than You
Director: Tariq Teguia
Algeria / France / Germany
Zina and Kame, promising and resourceful young people, find themselves disillusioned by Algeria's on...
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Slingshot Hip Hop
Director: Jackie Reem Salloum
USA
"Slingshot Hip Hop" braids together the stories of young Palestinians living in Israel, Gaza, and th...
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Une Chanson Dans La Tete
Director: Hany Tamba
France / Liban
In the 1970s, Bruno Caprice has had his fifteen minutes of glory with his only hit single "Quand tu ...
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Il Divo
Director: Paolo Sorrentino
France / Italy
Portrait of the most important Italian political leader since the end of World War Two. Nicknamed "T...
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An Islamic Conscience
Director: Shamir Allibhai, William Cran, Jane Chablani
UK / USA
For the past five decades, the Aga Khan has been the spiritual leader and Imam of the 15 million Ism...
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Be Like Others
Director: Tanaz Eshaghian
Canada / Iran / USA / UK
Although homosexuality is still punishable by death, Ayatollah Khomeini issued a fatwa (religious ed...
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Donovan Slacks
Director: Kivmars Bowling
UK / USA
Donovan Slacks, a man with explosive hair, is always topped off with an old pilot's hat. Staying at ...
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Fortune
Director: Peter Scarf
Australia
Two lives collide and then change forever when a suicidal psychiatrist who has hit rock bottom recei...
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L'age Des Tenebres
Director: Denys Arcand
Canada / France
In his dreams, Jean-Marc is a knight in shining armor, a star of stage and screen and a successful a...
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L'avocat De La Terreur
Director: Barber Schroeder
France
The film follows the enigmatic lawyer Jacques Vergès, who begins his career during the Algerian War ...
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Mongol
Director: Sergei Bodrov
Kazakhstan / Germany / Russia / Mongolia
The film paints a multidimensional portrait of Genghis Khan, revealing him not as the evil brute of ...
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Promise Me This (Zavet)
Director: Emir Kusturica
France, Serbia - Montenegro
Tsane, his grandfather, their cow, Cvetka, and their neighbor, Bosa, are the only inhabitants of a S...
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Two Lines
Director: Selim Evci
Turkey
Mert and Selin live together in Istanbul. He takes photographs whereas she works at a company. They ...
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Absence
Director: Mohammed Rashed Bu-Ali
Bahrain
It is about a unique situation in which an old couple in their fifties living alone in their house e...
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Belooh
Director: Amer al Rawas
Oman
Lines we draw to play as children and therefore, to evade, turn into barriers that are almost imposs...
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Bint Mariam
Director: Saeed Salmeen Al Murry
United Arab Emirates
With every drop of rain, a story grows told by Bint Mariam "Mariam's daughter," a girl who leaves af...
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Day Dreams
Director: Ghassan Abdallah
Syria
Three people, inspired by the advertising hoardings, spend their time waiting for a bus daydreaming ...
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Le Petit Cahier Noir
Director: Samer Ghorayeb
Lebanon
A room, a view, a veil and a girl... Ghorayeb focuses on the most intimate of human encounters, bold...
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Le Poisson Noye
Director: Malik Amara
Tunisia
It is the fable of the successive resurrections of an old fisherman in a Mediterranean village, reve...
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Matar (Rain)
Director: Abdullah Al-Eyaf
Saudi Arabia
A young man is about to lose something dear, a kid is about to regain what he lost years ago. And be...
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Mirrors Of Silence
Director: Nawaf Al-Janahi
United Arab Emirates
In a modern city, a young man is confronted by a distressing loneliness; will he succeed in overcomi...
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Please Stay Away From The Red Line
Director: Kazem Mollaie
Iran
It is about a dumb youth or a self-wanted dumb youth. But during the film, we will hear his inner vo...
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SMS
Director: Yehya Alabdallah
Jordan
A silent journey between two cups of coffee....
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Tahta al Aricha (Under the Vine Tree)
Director: Lucien Bourjeily
Lebanon
Ivan, the righteous husband spending the weekend at his country house, woke up one day to find a lov...
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Taqouim Shakhsi (Personal Calendar)
Director: Basheer Al Majed
Iraq
The film discusses the symbolism, the political reality of Iraq, and the divisiveness in the politic...
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