2015

The Little Prince (Opening Film)

Director: Mark Osborne

France / Italy

Rediscover one of the most beloved stories of all time. At the heart of it all is The Little Girl, w...

Alias Maria

Director: José Luis Rugeles

Colombia / Argentina / France

María, a 13-year-old guerrilla soldier, watches the secret birth of the commander's child while deci...

Amy

Director: Asif Kapadia

United Kingdom

A once-in-a-generation talent, Amy Winehouse instantly captured the world’s attention. A pure jazz a...

Antonia

Director: Ferdinando Cito Filomarino

Italy

Antonia Pozzi writes poetry, secretly. She does so, of course, not knowing she is to become one of t...

Chronic

Director: Michel Franco

Mexico

David is a nurse who works with terminally ill patients. Efficient and dedicated to his profession, ...

Dheepan

Director: Jacques Audiard

France

To escape the civil war in Sri Lanka, a former soldier, a young woman, and a little girl pose as a f...

Disorder

Director: Alice Winocour

France

Vincent, a French Special Forces soldier just back from Afghanistan, is suffering from a post-trauma...

Embrace of the Serpent

Director: Ciro Guerra

Colombia

Embrace of the Serpent tells the epic story of the first contact, encounter, approach, betrayal and,...

Foodies

Director: Thomas Jackson, Charlotte Landelius, Henrick Stockare

Sweden

The film explores the world of foodies, a subculture of food critics who aim to eat at the best rest...

Journey to the Shore

Director: Kurosawa Kiyochi

Japan / France

Mizuki's husband (Yusuke) drowned at sea three years ago. When he suddenly comes back home, she is n...

Last Days in the Desert

Director: Rodrigo García

USA

An imagined chapter from Jesus' forty days of fasting and praying in the desert. On his way out of t...

Masaan

Director: Neeraj Ghaywan

India / France

Benares, the holy city on the banks of the Ganges, reserves a cruel punishment for those who play wi...

Mia Madre

Director: Nanni Moretti

Italy

Margherita is a director shooting a film with the famous American actor, Barry Huggins, who is quite...

Racing Extinction

Director: Louie Psihoyos

USA / China / Hong Kong / Indonesia / Mexico / UK

In Racing Extinction, a team of artists and activists exposes the hidden world of extinction with un...

Taklub

Director: Brillante Mendoza

Philippines

After the Supertyphoon Haiyan, which changed the city of Tacloban in the Philippines into its horren...

The Clearstream Affair

Director: Vincent Garenq

France / Luxembourg / Belgium

In 2001, journalist Denis Robert exposes Clearstream Banking's opaque operations. His quest for trut...

The Fencer

Director: Klaus Härö

Finland

A young man, Endel Nelis, arrives in Haapsalu, Estonia, in the early 1950s. Having left Leningrad to...

The Lobster

The Tenant

Director: Mohsen Makmalbaf

UK / China / Hong-Kong

It’s the story of a young Iranian boy who has come to London to seek asylum as a refugee. He has bee...

Toto & His Sisters

Director: Alexander Nanau

Romania

Following his Emmy award-winning observational documentary, Alexander Nanau brings us the astonishin...

We are Young. We are Strong.

Director: Burhan Qurbani

Germany

The movie recounts the incident of violent xenophobic riots in Rostock in 1992 from the perspectives...

You Tell About Me

Director: Mahur Özmen

Turkey

Bahar lives in a shutter with her family in an orderly street. She dreams of pursuing her studies at...

He Named Me Malala (Closing Film)

Director: Davis Guggenheim

USA

HE NAMED ME MALALA is an intimate portrait of Malala Yousafzai, who was wounded when Taliban gunmen ...

Al-Jeridi

Director: Mohamed Ahmed Alsayid Ali

Egypt

Jeridy is a small boat made by Nubian children from the simplest equipment from their surroundings. ...

Once Upon A Time

Director: Kazim Oz

Turkey

A poor crowded Kurdish family arrives from Batman to Ankara to work on the fields every year. Withou...

The Unbearable Presence of Asmahan

Director: Azza El-Hassan

Austria / Qatar

As times harden in the Arab world, people have begun to recall the greatest diva of all time: Asmaha...

Wheels of War

Director: Rami Kodeih

Lebanon

From 1975 to 1990, Lebanon was embroiled in a devastating civil war that claimed an estimated 200,00...

Ala Ardeeha

Director: Mohammed Khairy

The Christians of Egypt are a major part of the Egyptian society loaded with the essence of native h...

I Believe

That's All

Director: Eslam Abdelwahab

Egypt

Omar is a 28-year-old autistic and disabled young man. However, his situation didn’t prevent his par...

Twice Upon A Time

Director: Niam Itani

Lebanon

"Twice Upon A Time" is a reflection on childhood memories, nostalgia, life during war and refuge, an...

130 km to Heaven

Director: Khaled Khella

Egypt

An aspirational young man steps foot outside of his hometown for the first time following his best f...

A Long Night

Director: Kamiran Betasi

Kurdistan / Iraq

After the collapse of the Kurdish revolution in 1975, Kurds began to leave Iraqi Kurdistan and settl...

Al Matour

Director: Ahmed Ibrahim

Egypt

Al Matour is a journey of going nowhere in a dysfunctional society....

And Romeo Married Juliet

Director: Hinde Bougemaa

Tunisia

"When the love that once bound them submits to the will of time. When it transforms the most beautif...

Bad Hunter

Director: Sahim Omar Kalifa

Belgium

A young man, Bahoz, goes hunting in rural Kurdistan. He witnesses the rape of a young woman by an ol...

Bread

Director: Nashwan Mohammed Salih

Iraq

An orphan sacrifices his normal life just to protect some animals....

Child & Bread

Director: Mohamed Goumane

Morocco

In an old neighborhood in Marrakech, a divorced woman of 30 years lives with her little boy of 8 yea...

Free Range

Director: Bassem Breche

Lebanon

Based on actual events, Free Range is the story of a cow that crosses the border from Israel to Leba...

Hayda Ana

Director: Elie El Semaan

Lebanon

"Hayda Ana" focuses on the universal issue experienced by three Lebanese teenagers, who plan to demo...

Heaven Sent You

Director: Pierre Aboujaoude

Lebanon

On his way to a fancy dress party dressed as a priest, Clement bumps into Valentine who begs him to ...

Labein Ma Yejo

Director: Carmen Bsaibes

Lebanon

At the age of 70, social networking becomes Daad Rizk’s main pastime. She spends her day online, wai...

Lost In The Dust

Director: Soran Ebrahim

Iraq

A Yazidi boy and a Baath agent fall in love with a Kurdish Muslim girl. The girl's parents don't wan...

Samir Sheikh El Chabeb

Director: Christelle Younes

Lebanon

Samir, a grandfather, wakes up one day to find himself lying in his coffin attending his own funeral...

The Baby

Director: Ali Asgari

Italy / Iran

Narges and her friend have just a few hours to find someone to take care of her baby for some days....

Alia

Director: Raghed Charabaty

Ali pours himself a cup of coffee and prepares to tell the story of Alia, a woman whose life interse...

Ayat

Director: Abdullah Hedeajan

Saeed is an unemployed young man who goes nowhere. He meets a poor young girl, then they become frie...

Cart

Director: Mohammed Salman

Cart is part of a family, it keeps their lives going. So what if the Cart is gone?...

Dark White

Director: Haisam Abdelhamed

The story revolves around a street child who finds himself coincidentally next to an amusement park ...

Eight Thirty

Director: Rami Al Otaibi

Men in Arab world are paranoid that anyone will discover their attraction to other men. 8:30 tackles...

Familiar Stranger

Director: Renée Awit

A young British man traveled to Lebanon in order to learn a foreign language and to familiarize hims...

Gli Ochhi Di Aldo

Director: Mike Malajalian

Aldo and his mother arrive to a beautiful Italian village to settle down. In the next days, Aldo dis...

Hassan In Wonderland

Director: Ali Kareem

Kids play with toy weapons in a bomb-shattered Baghdad, thus reproducing the terrible reality around...

Hidden

Director: Shahad Al Shehhi

The film looks at the life of a bored, middle-aged housewife, who decided she wants to have extra ma...

Kalil

Director: Paulo A. Zumach

In the remote mountains of Afghanistan, Gulmir, a poor goat shepherd constantly approached by member...

Life to Tape

Director: Nour Akiki

Joe is a child with autism trying to share the bad behavior of his waiting maid with his mother Salm...

Lost

Director: Mohammmed Al Faraj

Saudi Arabia

This short documentary gives a brief look into the life and struggles of the stateless Arabs in the ...

P.E Class

Director: Jabbar Salehi

Exercise is not destined for kids living in rural areas... The village is planted with mines....

Photograph

A young homeless boy called Nabeel goes through life wondering if he has a mother or not and trying ...

Seven Stones

Director: Fatemeh Dastmard

Seven children lie on the ground while fighter aircraft soar above them as they play. The ball that ...

Tarweeda

Director: Mohammed Ateeq

This is the story of a young woman imprisoned by her sick husband who forces her to serve him and ke...

The Final Sight

Director: Sami Kaka

The film addresses a social reality and the way society deals with women in the Middle East, tacklin...

The Fish Trap

Director: Salman Yousif

Bahrain

Fatima recently lost her husband. By the traditional Bahraini culture rules, she has to house sit fo...

The Heart & What it Hides

Director: Dana Shadid

The film is based on real-life stories of suppressed Arab women behind closed doors and was made usi...

The Riddle

Director: Fidae Sbaai

A prison warden offers a last chance to his prisoner, a riddle. If he solves it, he finds back his f...

The Self

Director: Koralp Gumus

A lonely boat drifts on the high sea to an unknown place....

Karachi Stories

Workers of the size of ants next to the ships they are dismantling risk their life to scrape a livin...

Libyan Stories

Director: Ahmed Aboub, Samer S. Omar

Workers of the size of ants next to the ships they are dismantling risk their life to scrape a livin...

Tripoli Stories

Workers of the size of ants next to the ships they are dismantling risk their life to scrape a livin...