Eating Alaska
Director: Ellen Frankenstein
USA
With humor and compassion, the documentary "Eating Alaska" shows natives and non-natives trying to b...
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Edition 10
46 Films
5 Sections
General (4 films)
Soul Kitchen
Director: Fatih Akin
Germany
In a run-down warehouse district called Soul Kitchen, Chef Zinos Kazantzakis runs his restaurant wit...
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The Chicken, The Fish & The King Crab
Director: Jose Luis Lopez-Linares
Spain
The film explores the Bocuse d'Or, a prestigious culinary competition held in Lyon, France, where ch...
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The Idiot Cycle
Director: Emmanuelle Schick Garcia
Canada
The film explores the relationship between chemical companies that produce cancer-causing chemicals ...
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Buried Secrets
Director: Raja Amari
Tunisia, Switzerland, France
Aicha, Radia, and their mother live removed from the world in the underground servants' quarters of ...
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Chou Sar?
Director: De Gaulle Eid
France, Lebanon, Palestine
On December 9, 1980, De Gaulle Eid's parents, youngest sister, and eleven other members of his famil...
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City Of Life
Director: Ali F. Mostafa
United Arab Emirates
A privileged young male Arab at odds with his cultural identity and his less fortunate street smart ...
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Ekhir Decembre
Director: Moez Kamoun
Tunisia
Aicha lives in a remote Tunisian mountain top village and dreams of a better life. After promising h...
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Kavsak (The Crossing)
Director: Selim Demirdelen
Turkey
Guven works in an accounting company. He is well liked in the office. He is a hard-working man. He h...
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Kick Off
Director: Shawkat Amin Korki
Iraq, Japan
About 300 refugee families are living in a half destroyed football stadium. Among them, is Asu who l...
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Les Barons
Director: Nabil Ben Yadir
Belgium, France
The film follows four friends, Hassan, Aziz, and Mounir, who call themselves 'Les Barons.' They spen...
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What's Going On
Director: Jocelyne Saab
Lebanon, France, Costa Rica
The film follows Jalal, who regrets not keeping his promise to his father, a tailor. He steals from ...
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Yanoosak
Director: Elie Khalifé, Alexandre Monnier
Lebanon, Switzerland
A Swiss young man of about thirty years old and living in Beirut, Rudi, meets a lot of difficulties ...
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Apres La Chute
Director: Hiner Saleem
France, Iraq
Baghdad, April 2003. Saddam Hussein's regime has been toppled, bringing joy and relief to Iraqi-Kurd...
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Cirkus Columbia
Director: Danis Tanovic
Bosnia and Herzegovina, France, United Kingdom, Slovenia, Germany, Serbia, Belgium
A small town in south Herzegovina, in the wake of the war. After years of communist rule, a new demo...
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Les Amours Imaginaires
Director: Xavier Dolan
Canada
Francis and Mary are good friends. One night, they meet Nick, a young man from the country who has j...
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Life During Wartime
Director: Todd Solondz
USA
Joy continues to have problems with her husband Allen and looks to her family for advice. A dead for...
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Mother
Director: Bong Joon-ho
South Korea
A mother lives alone with her only son, Do-joon, a 28-year-old shy and quiet man. In the aftermath o...
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Octubre
Director: Diego Vega, Daniel Vega
Peru, Venezuela, Spain
Clemente, an extremely quiet pawnbroker, is Sofia's hope to avoid solitude. Being his neighbor and a...
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Tales From Kars
Director: Özcan Alper, Zehra Derya Koç, Ülkü Oktay, Ahu Öztürk, Omer Emre Akay
Turkey
A sympathetic collection of five short films, shot in the Turkish province of Kars, on the border wi...
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Tales From The Golden Age
Director: Hanno Höfer, Cristian Mungiu, Constantin Popescu, Ioana Uricaru, Razvan Marculescu
Romania
The film is composed of six unconventional short stories, exploring the urban myths from the perspec...
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The Artists Cinema 1
Director: Deimantas Narkevičius, Keren Cytter, Catherine Sullivan, Farhad Sharmini
Lithuania, Germany, USA
1. Ausgeträumt: A small group of young Lithuanian boys just started a band in Vilnius, when pop or r...
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The Artists Cinema 2
Director: Amar Kanwar, Aurélien Froment, Rosalind Nashashibi, Akram Zaatari
India, USA, Egypt, Lebanon
The films explore themes of migration, identity, and separation, with each short presenting a unique...
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The Good Heart
Director: Dagur Kári
Iceland, Denmark, France
A young homeless man named Lucas is taken under the wing of Jacques, a bar owner, who survived from ...
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The Secret In Their Eyes
Director: Juan José Campanella
Argentina
Benjamin, who is retired from working with the criminal court, decides to write a book on a case he ...
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The Trotsky
Director: Jacob Tierney
Canada
Leon Bronstein is not your average Montreal West High School student. He believes he is the reincarn...
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Alamar
Director: Pedro Gonzalez-Rubio
Mexico
Before Natan returns to Italy with his mother, he works with his father, Jorge, in the family fishin...
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Trois Temps Apres La Mort d'Anna
Director: Catherine Martin
Canada
Devastated by the murder of her daughter, a young violinist, Françoise decides to take refuge alone ...
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Women Without Men
Director: Shirin Neshat
Germany, Austria, France
Against the tumultuous backdrop of Iran's 1953 CIA-backed coup d'état, the destinies of four women c...
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I Am Love
Director: Luca Guadagnino
Italy
Eduardo Recchi Sr., the family patriarch, has decided to name a successor to his industrial company,...
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Somewhere
Director: Sofia Coppola
USA
Johnny Marco, a Hollywood bad-boy stumbling through a life of excess at the Château Marmont, receive...
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A4 Love
Director: Raya Haidar
Lebanon
Jamil (32) lives the daily dull routines of office life until the day he spots beautiful Julie (26) ...
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Aayesh
Director: Abdullah Al-Eyaf
Saudi Arabia
Aayesh is a lonely man. He works as a morgue security guard. One day his daily routine is altered fo...
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Bitter Days
Director: Amjad Al Rasheed
Jordan
Asma (12) works as a shoe-cleaner on the streets of Aqaba to support her sick mother and younger sis...
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El Djinn
Director: Yasmine Chouikh
Algeria
At her puberty, Amber has three days to escape to the djinn who haunt her village. Her meeting with ...
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Ghaimat Shrooq
Director: Ahmed Zain
Qatar
Five teenagers decide to escape from their school. Their tale starts at 7:15 am and ends at 1:45 pm....
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Missing
Director: Tariq Rimawi
Jordan
A window opens on a child who lives in a war torn area where he longs for his past peaceful life....
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NWSE
Director: Saër Karam
Lebanon
A small time gangster is longing to quit the "business." But his "Boss" isn't seeing it that way. Ou...
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Pull String Human
Director: Rami Kinsen, Bilal Jay
Lebanon
Pull String Human is a short experimental film that depicts an artist's struggle with his society an...
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Rawha Bala Rajaa
Director: Ahmad Qassem
Jordan
Wajih (40) is married to Rola (35) and has a daughter Tina (9). He cheats on his wife and lies to he...
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Sea Sonata
Director: Rakan Mayasi
Jordan, Palestine
A Palestinian, an Iraqi, a Syrian, and a Sri Lankan refugee meet on a boat in the northern Lebanese ...
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Sin Palabras
Director: Othman Naciri
Morocco
In 1997, in a small village of northern Morocco, a deaf woman offers secretly the best reward ever t...
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Super Super
Director: Ghassan Keyrouz
New Zealand
The story is about Elver, a woman who is gradually coming to terms with her husband's lack of loyalt...
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The Destiny
Director: Nidal Abou Hamzeh
Lebanon
People relate the good to luck and the bad to destiny, but the good for a person may be bad for anot...
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The Shoemaker
Director: Ahd Kamel
Saudi Arabia
Saber, an Iraqi shoemaker, returns home to his wife Nidal, and Mahmoud, his five-year-old son, after...
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Um Abdallah
Director: Sahar Al Sawaf
Iraq, Jordan
"Um Abdallah" documents an Iraqi refugee family living in Jordan through the eyes of displaced child...
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