Amreeka
Director: Cherien Dabis
USA / Canada / Kuwait
Mouna, a divorcee with a teenage son, is an enthusiastic and optimistic Palestinian woman. Deep in t...
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Edition 9
34 Films
4 Sections
Competition (8 films)
Basra
Director: Ahmed Rashwan
Egypt
The film explores the life of an Egyptian photographer amidst the backdrop of the US-UK strike again...
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Help
Director: Marc Abi Rached
Lebanon
Ali is a 14-year-old delinquent living a chaotic life and looking for a mother figure. His life chan...
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L'Aube Du Monde
Director: Abbas Fahdel
France / Germany
Mastour and Zahra grew up at the delta of the Euphrates and Tiger rivers in southern Iraq. Being cou...
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Le Chant Des Mariees
Director: Karin Albou
France
Tunis, 1942. Nour and Myriam, 16, share the same house in a modest neighborhood where Jews and Musli...
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Mascarades
Director: Lyes Salem
Algeria
Mounir lives in a small Algerian village. Very proud and sure of himself, he has only one dream: to ...
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Niloofar
Director: Sabine El Gemayel
France / Iran / Lebanon
Niloofar is a thirteen-year-old Iraqi girl whose dream is to read and write in a village where educa...
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Tatil Kitabi
Director: Seyf Teoman
Turkey
Ten-year-old Ali lives in a small Mediterranean coastal town of Turkey. The exercise book that is di...
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Taking Woodstock
Director: Ang Lee
USA
Elliot helps his parents run their dilapidated motel. When he hears that a neighbouring town has pul...
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Tetro
Director: Francis Ford Coppola
Argentina / Italy / Spain
17-year-old Bennie arrives in Buenos Aires in search of his older brother who has been missing for m...
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Al Fabraka
Director: Elie Habib
Lebanon
In the frame of the city of Beirut, the Beauty and the Beast meet in a Hip-Hop version story....
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Dirty Mirror
Director: Mirna Mounayar
Lebanon
A group of young women discuss an intimate problem in front of a mirror....
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Hassab Al Tawkit Al Mahalli
Director: Mohammed Al Khalif
Saudi Arabia
This comedy is about prayer time in Saudi Arabia. When all shops are forced to close by the religiou...
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High Heels
Director: Fadi Haddad
Jordan
Nawal, the recently widowed social snob, finds out that her husband left her nothing but an empty ba...
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Lazhar
Director: Bahri Ben Yahmed
France / Tunisia
During the summer, Lazhar, a 13-year-old boy, works hard to realize his dream, buying the newest spo...
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Le Temps Des Cerises
Director: Robert Cremona
Lebanon
In "The Quiet town where nothing goes wrong," Alice, 13 years old, is waiting for the train that wil...
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My Name Is Mohammed
Director: Yahya Talbe Hassan (Alak), Amir Ali Gebara, Wamid Hussein Hamdan, Rania Haddad, Ahmed Yassine Kharit
Iraq / United Kingdom / Jordan
Nine-year-old Mohammed is a young Iraqi refugee boy who dreams of being a regular kid; instead, he i...
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Over Again
Director: Carla Kamel
Lebanon
It is the elephant in the room. A frequent story only a few of us talk about. You're about to face w...
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Parissur Mer
Director: Munir Abbar
Morocco
Wilson, a young immigrant from Benin, writes a letter to his parents. He tells them about his succes...
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Sellam & Demetan
Director: Mohamed Amin Benamraoui
Morocco
Sellam comes back to his village after 25 years of absence and finds it in ruins. He recalls the bea...
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Shaher 12
Director: Mahmoud Shokry
Egypt
Khaled is driving Youssef to the airport to catch his flight out of Egypt. Suddenly, they witness a ...
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Shourouk/Ghouroub
Director: Mohammad Aldhahri
Saudi Arabia
Family, society, and security: An ordinary day in a street kid's life....
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Yalla Bina Yalla
Director: Mohamed Ghandour
Lebanon
Hamada works overtime at the university to complete his postgraduate studies, pay his tuition and hi...
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Afghan Star
Director: Havana Marking
Great Britain/Afghanistan
After 30 years of Taliban rule, pop culture is creeping back into Afghanistan: Afghan Star, an Ameri...
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Akiresu To Kame
Director: Takeshi Kitano
Japan
Machisu, the only son of a rich collector, has a child's love for painting. Precocious Machisu begin...
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Bloody Mondays & Strawberry Pies
Director: Coco Schrijber
The Netherlands
The film explores themes of beauty, work, and boredom, questioning how many ways there are to look a...
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El Regalo De La Pachamama
Director: Toshifumi Matsushita
Bolivia / Japan / USA
In the Salar de Uyuni, where many families work with salt, Kunturi, a 13-year-old boy, lives a norma...
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Food, Inc
Director: Robert Kenner
USA
The documentary reveals the methods of irresponsible production in the food industry, highlighting h...
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IL Compleanno
Director: Marco Filiberti
Italy
A group of friends rent a magnificent house on the beach to spend the summer together. The sudden ar...
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Le Pere De Mes Enfants
Director: Mia Hansen-Løve
France
Grégoire Canvel has everything a man could want. A wife he loves, three delightful children and a st...
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Les Beaux Gosses
Director: Riad Sattouf
France
14-year-old Hervé is an average teenager who lives alone with his mother. Going out with girls is hi...
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The Limits Of Control
Director: Jim Jarmusch
USA
This is the story of a mysterious loner, a stranger, whose activities remain meticulously outside th...
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Tokyo!
Director: Michel Gondry, Leos Carax, Bong Joon Ho
France / Japan / South Korea / Germany
The film consists of three chapters freely inspired by Tokyo and shot in the heart of the city. Each...
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Tokyo Sonata
Director: Kiyoshi Kurosawa
Japan / The Netherlands / Hong Kong
Tokyo Sonata is a portrait of a seemingly ordinary Japanese family. The father who abruptly loses hi...
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