2014

Clouds of Sils Maria (Opening Film)

Director: Olivier Assayas

France / Switzerland / Germany

At the peak of her international career, Maria Enders is asked to perform in a revival of the play t...

Bird People

Director: Pascale Ferran

France

In the Paris airport zone, two strangers are trying to make sense out of their lives: an American en...

Calvary

Director: John Michael McDonagh

Ireland / UK

Father James is a good priest who is faced with sinister and troubling circumstances brought about b...

Cinéast(e)s

Director: Julie Gayet, Mathieu Busson

France

Cinéast(e)s is a documentary about filmmakers who are women. Julie Gayet interviews twenty-one Frenc...

Des étoiles

Director: Dyana Gaye

France / Sénégal

Between New York, Dakar and Turin, the fates of Sophie, Abdoulaye and Thierno cross and intertwine. ...

Desert Dancer

Director: Richard Raymond

UK

Set in Iran, this unbelievable true story follows the brave ambition of Afshin Ghaffarian. During th...

Fifi Howls from Happiness

Director: Mitra Farahani

France / USA

Mitra Farahani’s lyrical documentary explores the enigma of provocative artist Bahman Mohassess, the...

La Chambre Bleue

Director: Mathieu Amalric

France

A man and a woman, secretly in love, alone in a room... They desire each other, want each other and ...

Les Enfants Rouges

Director: Santiago Amigorena

France

Love, friendship, and politics are explored through the sentimental education of three twenty-year-o...

L'Homme Qu'on Aimait Trop

Director: André Téchiné

France

Nice, 1976. Following the failure of her marriage, Agnès Le Roux returns from Africa to her mother R...

Lilting

Director: Hong Khaou

UK

Set in contemporary London, LILTING tells the story of a Cambodian-Chinese mother mourning the untim...

Love is Strange

Director: Ira Sachs

USA / France

After Ben and George get married, George is fired from his teaching post, forcing them to stay with ...

May in the Summer

Director: Cherien Dabis

USA

The film follows May Brennan, who is successful with her first book and planning to marry Ziad. Howe...

Night Moves

Director: Kelly Reichardt

USA

It is the story of three radical environmentalists coming together to execute the most intense prote...

Party Girl

Director: Marie Amachoukeli-Barsacq, Claire Burger, Samuel Theis

France

Angélique is a 60-year-old bar hostess. She still likes to party and is still fond of men. At night,...

Queen & Country

Director: John Boorman

UK

In 1952, Bill Rohan is 18 and wanders along the riverside where his family has a house. His daydream...

Siddharth

Director: Richie Mehta

India / Canada

After sending away his 12-year-old son Siddharth for work, Mahendra learns he may have been taken by...

The Devil’s Violinist

Director: Bernard Rose

Germany / Italy

The film chronicles the life of Italian violinist and composer Niccolò Paganini, who rose to fame as...

The Man of the Crowd

Director: Marcelo Gomes, Cao Guimarães

Brazil

Juvenal is a train driver at the metro in Belo Horizonte; Margo controls train traffic. Both live in...

The President

Director: Mohsen Makmalbaf

Georgia / France / UK / Germany

In an imaginary village in the Caucasus, a President is on the run with his five-year-old grandson f...

The Unknown Known

Director: Errol Morris

USA

Former United States Secretary of Defense, Donald Rumsfeld, discusses his career in Washington D.C. ...

Tom à la Ferme

Director: Xavier Dolan

France / Canada

Tom, a young advertising copywriter, travels to the country for a funeral. There, he’s shocked to fi...

Transit Game

Director: Anna Fahr

Canada

In the northern mountains of Lebanon, a Syrian man hoping to reunite with family torn apart by war e...

When Monaliza Smiled

Director: Fadi Haddad

Jordan

Monaliza, a 37-year-old Jordanian woman unable to draw a smile, grew up with her grumpy, older, unma...

A Most Wanted Man (Closing Film)

Director: Anton Corbijn

UK / USA / Germany

Issa Karpov, a refugee from Chechnya, enters Hamburg, Germany, illegally. Günther Bachmann, a German...

All Around Alexandria

Director: Faten El Bendarie

Egypt

Asser is a young Egyptian from Alexandria who traveled abroad to work. When he returns, he finds the...

Challat of Tunis

Director: Kaouther Ben Hania

Tunisia

A man on a motorbike, razor blade in hand, prowls the streets of Tunis slashing women’s buttocks. Th...

Daddy’s School

Director: Hassan Solhjou

UK

This is a documentary on how a man, formerly imprisoned within the confines of the closed religious ...

Hodgkin’s

Director: Mohammed Jassim

Jordan

A Bahraini director, “Mohammed Jassim”, reflects throughout his film the challenge and adaptation of...

Living with Leviathan

Director: Sirin Bahar Demirel

Turkey

The film is a personal story about the nationwide uprising, the Occupy Gezi movement in Turkey, whic...

Portrait: Hassan Al Shark

Director: Mohamed Essam

Egypt

An uneducated artist is inglorious in his country Egypt but well known over the world, international...

Syria Inside

Director: Tamer Alawam

Germany / Syria

The film features two Syrian presenters who introduce their country, revolution, and the fundamental...

Bastardo

Director: Nejib Beldakhi

Tunisia / Qatar / France

This is the story of Mohsen aka "Bastardo," a man who has always been rejected by the inhabitants of...

Giraffada

Director: Rani Massalha

Palestine / Italy / Germany / France

Yacine is the veterinarian of the only zoo remaining in the Palestinian West Bank. He lives alone wi...

La Preuve

Director: Amor Hakkar

Algeria / France / UAE

Ali, a taxi driver in Algeria, and his wife, Houria, are unable to have children. When he travels to...

The Last Winter

Director: Salem Salavati

Iran

The mayor and his wife Baji are the sole survivors in an isolated village that is gradually being su...

A Story of Children and Film

Director: Mark Cousins

UK

The world’s first movie about kids in global cinema, seen through 53 great films from 25 countries. ...

Here Be Dragons

Director: Mark Cousins

UK

The film follows filmmaker Mark Cousins as he visits Albania for five days, exploring the country an...

Life May Be

Director: Mark Cousins, Mania Akbari

UK, Iran

An epistolary feature film that explores a cinematic discourse between British director Mark Cousins...

Abounaddara

Syria

Founded in 2010, the Abounaddara Collective is a group of filmmakers working to provide an alternati...

First to Fall

Director: Rachel Beth Anderson, Tim Gruzca

UK / USA

Two friends abandon their peaceful lives in Canada and return to their home country, Libya, to fight...

Private Violence

Director: Cynthia Hill

USA

Private Violence explores a simple but deeply disturbing fact of American life: the most dangerous p...

Sepideh, Reaching For The Stars

Director: Berit Madsen

Denmark / Iran / Germany / Norway / Sweden

Sepideh is a young Iranian woman who dares to dream of a future as an astronaut....

Energized

Director: Hubert Canaval

Austria

Nuclear disasters, wars over oil and gas, climate change and ever-increasing energy consumption: We ...

Food Chains

Director: Sanjay Rawal

USA

In this expose, an intrepid group of workers battle to defeat the $4 trillion global supermarket ind...

Natural Resistance

Director: Jonathan Nossiter

Italy / France

During walks through the vineyards and relaxed gatherings with a group of alternative Italian wine g...

17 Years And a Day

Director: Nora Niasari

Australia

Reality and expectation collide as Mona delves into her past and prepares to meet her estranged Iran...

A Very Private Place

Director: Jamal Al Ghailan

Bahrain

The main duty of a cleaner in a lavatory consists of cleaning after different people and keeping sil...

Adam’s Ant

Director: Mohanna Abdullah

Saudi Arabia

Adam, a prisoner being subjected to harsh treatment in solitary confinement, tries to find something...

Ants Apartment

Director: Tofigh Amani

Iraq

The story is set in one of the Iraqi deserts after the war. It talks about a family of three living ...

Butterflies

Director: Adnan Zandi

Iran

The mother should give milk to the baby in the street....

Horizon

Director: Zain Duraie

Jordan

It is a story that takes us on an emotional journey through the eyes of a mother, wife, and homemake...

Izriqaq

Director: Rama Mari

Palestine / Norway / Qatar

In a land dotted with killing machines, they find an easy cover up for their crime! But, even when t...

Kayfa Tarani

Le Miroir

More than 2 hours

My Apologies to Beirut

Director: Antoine Fadel

Lebanon

The film follows a 60-year-old character through three chapters, exploring the city of Beirut throug...

Slow Fall

Director: Hussein Al Maliki

Iraq

The film focuses on the relationship between two brothers and the missing connection between them. T...

Steps

Director: Salman Yousif

Bahrain

Haji Mossa is a blind tailor. He established a connection with the village souls, and he can move fr...

The Day is Gone

Director: Rzgar Husen

Iraq / UAE

Nasrin, a refugee from Syria, fled to Iraq because of the Syrian war. She is working as a maid in a ...

The Love of this Empty House

Director: Omid Rastbin

Iran

A 6-year-old girl is the only survivor in the massacre of her village, in which all her family and r...

With Thy Spirit

Director: Karim Rahbani

Lebanon

Father Geryes, a priest leading a peaceful life within his monastery in Lebanon, finds himself invol...

Yalda

Director: Rusha Faraj

Lebanon

It is not about death, but rather about the memories people leave behind after departing from this w...

Germany Year Zero

Director: Roberto Rossellini

Italy

Edmund, a young boy who lives in the devastated Germany after the 2nd World War, has to do all kinds...

Paisan

Rome Open City

Director: Roberto Rossellini

Italy

Rome is occupied by the Nazis, while life stories cross. Pina loves Francesco, an illegal printer; M...

Stromboli

Director: Roberto Rossellini

Italy

Karin is a refugee. In order to remain in Italy, she marries a sailor from the Stromboli Island of S...

Voyage to Italy

Director: Roberto Rossellini

Italy

Thanks to a holiday journey in Italy, an English couple finds a new way of communication and mutual ...

Ways of Love

Baheya

Director: Mavie Maher

Egypt

8-year-old Baheya dies during the attack on Mohammed Ali Mosque. Her death utterly affects the life ...

Beirut Hanan Beirut

Did You Accept Or Not

Director: Soran Ebrahim

Iraq

In this country, when a woman goes through hard times and is put under the mercy of officials, she f...

Helwan…. Moi

Director: Mohammed Adel

Egypt / France

The movie is about Helwan, one of the greatest and most popular Egyptian cities, intertwining the di...

I Want To Live

Director: Ahmad Tariq Hamad

Palestine

The film depicts society’s perception of an individual by showing the daily life of a modest 22-year...

Masrya

Director: Shady El Hakim

Egypt

Dr. Wafaa is a modern researcher previewing modern women through different experimental situations i...

Syrian Wounds

Director: Husam Ayoub

Germany / Syria

A story of three wounded Syrian who got treatment in Germany....

Virtual

Director: Nada Riyadh

Egypt

Through the Facebook updates of a female lawyer who works on laborers’ cases, we experience an intim...

Will You Marry Me

Director: Zuheir Kreidieh

Lebanon

The film follows Zuheir, a 24-year-old man living with HIV, as he navigates life with his boyfriend ...