Dunia by Jocelyne Saab
A student of Sufi poetry and belly dance in Cairo, Dunia is looking for herself and wishes to become a professional dancer.
Besieged by Hala Alabdalla
In the intimacy of his kitchen, Farouk Mardam Bey attempts to dissipate the fog around Syria.
Theeb by Naji Abu Nowar
The film presents a Bedouin story of brotherhood and betrayal set in Wadi Rum in 1916.
Blessed Benefit by Ahmad Al Massad
Ahmad gradually feels something that he's never experienced before: liberty. He realises that life in prison could be better or easier than the one he has outside.
The Last Friday by Yahya Alabdallah
his film is a sober tale, set in Amman, of a marginalised man, a compulsive gambler, who is struggling to survive and making the best out of a difficult life.
When Monalisa Smiled by Fady G. Haddad
Monaliza, a 37-year-old Jordanian woman unable to draw a smile, grew up with her grumpy, older, unmarried, agoraphobic sister, Afaf.
‘Last Days of the Man of Tomorrow’ and ‘Ayed’
Last Days of the Man of Tomorrow
A young filmmaker investigates the legend of Manivelle, an automaton gifted to Lebanon in 1945 that still haunts an abandoned mansion in Beirut.
Ayed
This film is a portrait of Ayed Fadel, a member of Jazar Crew and one of the leading figures of the Palestinian cultural underground scene.
‘Bonboné’ by Rakan Mayasi and ‘Condom Lead’ by Tarzan and Arab Nasser
The two shorts movies ‘Bonboné’ by Rakan Mayasi and ‘Condom Lead’ by Tarzan and Arab Nasser.
Qais Al-Zubaidi Shorts
Nadi Lekol Nas , in collaboration with Dar El-Nimer for Arts and Culture, presents a film screening and Q&A with Iraqi director Qais Al-Zubaidi.
‘Waves 98’, ‘Silence’ and ‘Then They Said: Refugee’
‘Waves 98’, ‘Silence’ and ‘Then They Said: Refugee’ are three short movies.
Thank God it’s Friday by Jan Beddegenoodts
This documentary chronicles the daily life in the Palestinian village Nabi Saleh and its opposing Israeli settlement Halamish.
Wajib by Annemarie Jacir
The tense details of the relationship between Shadi and his father come to a head challenging their fragile and very different lives.
Infiltrators by Khaled Jarrar
The daily travails of Palestinians of all backgrounds as they seek routes through, under, around, and over a bewildering matrix of barriers.
Nazareth 2000 by Hany Abu-Assad
Returning to his native city just months before the new millennium, filmmaker Hany Abu-Assad captures the daily, idiosyncratic beats of Nazareth.
Womanhood, an Egyptian Kaleidoscope by Florie Bavard
through their interviews the participants question the current stereotypes imposed upon them, while reflecting upon the gendered roles in the (post)revolutionary process.
Witness from the East by Ayed Nebaa
The film sheds light on Ryuichi Hirokawa’s arrival to the Dalia kibbutz in the Galilee Heights and the outbreak of the 1967 War months after his arrival.
Out of Life by Maroun Baghdadi
The film is based on the real-life experience of Roger Auque who was abducted in Beirut on the 13th of January 1987 and then released by the ‘Organization for Revolutionary Justice’ on the 27th of November 1987.
Lebanon, Land of Honey and Incense by Maroun Baghdadi
The film recounts stories of the Civil War from the experience of two French doctors.
Beirut Oh Beirut by Maroun Baghdadi
Framed within the drama of an impossible love story, the film casts several characters, a Muslim lawyer, a young Christian woman and a worker from the southern countryside, whose lives intertwine.
Little Wars by Maroun Baghdadi
The story of Lebanon’s civil war in 1975 through three characters.