2017

La Cordillera (Opening Film)

Director: Santiago Mitre

Argentina

The film follows Hernán Blanco, the new Argentinian president, as he navigates political challenges ...

120 Battements Par Minutes

Director: Robin Campillo

France

Early 1990s. With AIDS having already claimed countless lives for nearly ten years, Act Up-Paris act...

A Day For Women

Director: Kamla Abouzekri

Egypt

In one of Egypt's shabby neighborhoods, a youth center decides to allocate one day on the swimming p...

A Prayer Before Dawn

Director: Jean-Stéphane Sauvaire

France, United Kingdom

The true story of Billy Moore, a troubled young British boxer sent to one of Thailand’s most notorio...

Becoming Cary Grant

Director: Mark Kidel

Great Britain

The film explores the life of Cary Grant, focusing on his struggles with self-doubt and insecurity, ...

Directions

Director: Stephan Komandarev

Bulgaria

At a meeting with his banker, a small business owner, who drives a taxi to make ends meet, discovers...

History of Lebanese Cinema

Director: Diana Moukalled

Lebanon

"Bewildered Cinema: Lebanese Cinema" is a visual journey through time, reflecting on the beginnings ...

I Am Not Your Negro

Director: Raoul Peck

USA, Belgium, Switzerland

Through the words and writings of the Black American writer James Baldwin, Raoul Peck proposes a fil...

Investigating Paradise

Director: Merzak Allouache

Algeria

Nedjma, a young investigative journalist for an Algerian daily, is spurred to action by the ongoing ...

Radiance

Director: Naomi Kawase

Japan, France

Misako is a passionate writer of film versions for the visually impaired. At a screening, she meets ...

Redoubtable

Director: Michel Hazanavicius

France

Paris 1967. Jean-Luc Godard, the leading filmmaker of his generation, is shooting La Chinoise with t...

The Killing of a Sacred Deer

Director: Yorgos Lanthimos

Greece

Steven, a charismatic surgeon, is forced to make an unthinkable sacrifice after his life starts to f...

The Other Side of Hope

Director: Aki Kaurismäki

Finland, Germany

Khaled, a Syrian refugee, stows away on a freighter to Helsinki. Meanwhile, Wikström is a traveling ...

Viceroy's House

Director: Gurinder Chadha

United Kingdom - Kenya

Based on a true story of the final days of the British Empire in India, when Lord Mountbatten assume...

Wind River

Director: Taylor Sheridan

USA

A rookie FBI agent teams up with a local game tracker with deep community ties and a haunted past to...

Loving Vincent (Closing Film)

Director: Dorota Kobiela, Hugh Welchman

United Kingdom, Poland

The film is about the last days of Vincent Van Gogh, created through a unique animation technique in...

Art Not Art

Director: Peter Moussa

Lebanon

This is a short documentary about Contemporary Art, filmed around the art galleries of the United Ar...

No Place For Tears

Director: Reyan Tuvi

Turkey

The film depicts the village of Mahaser in Turkey, which observes the neighboring town of Kobani in ...

Only My Voice

Director: Myriam Rey

UK

In transit through Athens, four women from the Middle East share their stories. They all left their ...

Sheltered In Oak

Director: Mehdi Noormohammadi

Iran

A depiction of Iranian squirrel sheltered in oaks, and the challenges it faces for survival. The doc...

Water On Sand

Director: Nathalie Attallah

Lebanon

In Water on Sand, the filmmaker’s brother and grandmother reflect on their feelings and experiences ...

A Girl In The Room

Director: Karim Lakzadeh

Iran

An elderly man working at a guesthouse with his friends. His daughter will come to visit him after 2...

Andrea

Director: Edwin Harb-Kadri

Spain

Gabriel loses his wife in a car accident while he’s on the phone with her. A couple of years later, ...

As We Go

Director: Ghina Daou

Lebanon

During the visit of their future home, Neyla, a young Lebanese woman who has been in a relationship ...

Cargo

Director: Karim Rahbani

Lebanon

Lost in the middle of the Bekaa valley after fleeing the Syrian war, little Abed and his sick grandf...

Five Boys And A Wheel

Director: Said Zagha

Palestine

A young father has to help his son out of a petty conflict with the neighbors. As the parents of eac...

Missed Call

Director: Christy Whaibe

France

After the death of her husband, Alice, an 80 year-old lady, is offered a cellphone by her daughter. ...

Kashta

Director: A.J. Al Thani

Qatar

Out in the quiet desert, a father teaches his sons how to hunt, but a careless struggle between the ...

Passenger

Director: Cem Özay

Turkey

Ahmet is a truck driver in a subcontractor company. He takes his son Batuhan from his ex-wife who is...

Rattled

Director: Jaafar Almadhoon

UAE

Mohammed's traditional search for a bride has resulted in over twelve rejections. As his opportuniti...

Story of a Job Interview

Director: Alkim Özmen

Turkey

Erdem is a 35-year-old journalist who has been unemployed for the last 15 months and is about to bec...

The Bliss of Being No One

Director: Bader Alhomoud

Saudi Arabia

The unexpected encounter of a young man who lost his family with a one-eyed old man....

The Choice

Director: Eman Alsayed

UAE

After her Emirati father passed away, Lauren is asked to fly to the UAE for the first time to meet w...

The Guy Came On Horseback

Director: Hossein Rabiei Dastjerdi

Iran

A disabled young man falls in love with the daughter of his neighbor, causing conflict between the t...

The Silence

Director: Ali Asgari, Farnoosh Samadi

Italy

Fatma and her mother are Kurdish refugees in Italy. On their visit to the doctor, Fatma has to trans...

The Waiting Room

Director: Hend Fakhroo

Qatar

Two families from different backgrounds find themselves sharing a room at a hospital's ICU. Separate...

Till When?

Director: Majd Fayad

Lebanon

A Lebanese student, like many students in Lebanon, is overburdened by the Lebanese education system ...

Toprak

Director: Onur Yağız

France

Toprak, 8 years, translates for his parents who can’t speak French. Today, he goes to the hospital w...

Wameed

Director: Abd Al Rahman Dukmak

Lebanon

Noura leaves the house after she knows that Mazen, her lover, has cheated on her. This leaves Mazen ...

Before The Flood

Director: Fisher Stevens

USA

Before the Flood presents a riveting account of the dramatic changes now occurring around the world ...

Food Evolution

Director: Scott Hamilton Kennedy

USA

Food Evolution is set amidst a brutally polarized debate marked by fear, distrust, and confusion sur...

The Venerable W.

Director: Barbet Schroeder

Switzerland

In Burma, the "Venerable Wirathu" is a highly respected and influential Buddhist monk. Meeting him a...

Alan (by Mohammad Salih Jouri)

Director: Mohammad Salih Jouri

Iraq

After the war in Syria, many Kurds lived there immigrated to Kurdistan Iraq....

Alan (by Mostafa Gandomkar)

Director: Mostafa Gandomkar

Iran

Many Kurdish families in Syria and Iraq have lost their homes and families after ISIS attacks. The s...

3 Stolen Cameras

Director: RåFILM Filmmakers Collective / Equipe Media

Western Sahara

The members of video activist group Equip Media, from Western Sahara, fight to keep their cameras. T...

Five O'Clock

Director: Ayman Al-Shatri

Iraq

A suicidal person believes everyone deserves to die, but he soon discovers that he desperately needs...

Killit

Director: Zeynep Altay

Turkey

The documentary is about four Assyrian families in Mardin Killit, who stood there after the great mi...

Safezone

Director: Jodie Livingston, Marco Bollinger

Lebanon

Fatima, a twelve-year-old Syrian girl, tells her harrowing story of escape from war as she tries to ...

The Sweet Seashore

Director: Aziz Tebyanian

USA

Three university students - a Muslim, a Baha'i, and a Christian - are suddenly faced with religious ...

The Wall

Director: Mustafa Koray Polat

Turkey

The story of a Syrian refugee woman who is struggling for life in Turkey....

24 Frames

Director: Abbas Kiarostami

Iran

76 Minutes and 15 Seconds

Director: Seifollah Samadian

Iran

This is a portrait of an artist, whose exceptional approach to art and life defined him as one of th...

A Taste of Cherry

Director: Abbas Kiarostami

Iran

A tale of one middle-aged man who wishes to die in a society where suicide is considered as an abomi...

Take Me Home

Director: Abbas Kiarostami

Iran

Abbas Kiarostami takes his camera to the south of Italy and shows us a beautiful and playful video o...

The Traveler

Director: Abbas Kiarostami

Iran

A young football fan from a small town decides to travel to the capital city in order to watch an im...

The Wind Will Carry Us

Director: Abbas Kiarostami

Iran

A few people arrive from Tehran for a short stay at Siah Dareh, a village in Iranian Kurdistan. The ...

Through The Olive Trees

Director: Abbas Kiarostami

Iran

The movie focuses on one of the events in Zendegi Edame Darad (1992) and explores the relationship b...

Where Is My Friend's Home?

Director: Abbas Kiarostami

Iran

A little boy is about to do his homework when he discovers that he has taken his classmate's noteboo...