The film follows Shaheen as he goes to Palestine searching for young Palestinian musical talents and enrolling them at the Berklee College of Music.

The film documents the life and biography of the Palestinian singer and poet 'Abu Arab', who is considered a living memory of the Palestinian musical heritage.

Twelve Palestinian women sit and talk of their life before the Diaspora, of their memories and their identity.

Is there a link between the colonization of Palestinian lands and the enclosing of Palestinian minds?

In this vegetable and cereal fermentation workshop, participants will share a collaborative and hands-on teamwork experience which aims for a collective conversation.

The first Intifada, 1987: Palestinian leaders urge communities to develop alternatives to Israeli products. In response, a group of Palestinian activists starts a collective dairy farm with 18 head of cattle.

Salim's car is stolen in front of his house. When he goes to report the theft, a police detective who used to observe him as a university student recognises him, and the two become friends.

A police officer is assigned as an undercover drug dealer with the license to kill, deal in drugs, and do whatever is required for his identity to remain secret.

Yousef, an innocent and naive employee, meets on his day off a peculiar billionaire dressed as a tramp, known as Sayyed Marzouk.

Iraqi music critic Samer Almashall Samer Almashall will present a historical overview of Iraqi music and its most significant creative episodes from the twentieth century until nowadays.

Son of Babylon: Northern Iraq, 2003, two weeks after the fall of Saddam Hussein: Ahmed, a 12-year-old boy, begrudgingly follows in the shadow of his grandmother.

Qawana: A poetic journey through Iraq in search of an Iraqi/Turkman song.

Taufiq, an old failed writer; Amal, a wife in hiding, and Muhanad, a clandestine gay IT-specialist all meet at Abu Nawas, a cosy café and popular hangout for Iraqi exiles in London.

The screening of ‘Amal’s Garden’, ‘Survivors of Firdos Square’, ‘Crazy Days’ and ‘Sabyea’ will be followed by a Q&A with directors Adel Khaled and Dhyaa Joda.

the horse represents 'an essential element in traditional narratives.

This talk is a celebratory return to the springs and tributaries of modern Iraqi creativity — ones which the author and his works draw on.

'Iraqisms': a series of artistic and cultural events. 'Iraqisms' sheds light on the current art scene inside Iraq and in the diaspora.

Born in Qalqilya in 1938, Tayseer Qubaa belonged to the generation which started the Palestinian resistance movement.

The film recounts the lives of two very different Palestinian women: Farah Hatoum, a widow living with her children and grandchildren, and Sahar Khalifeh, a West Bank novelist.

In the fifth encounter of 'Al-Ghilaf', three of Ma3azef's editors and writers discuss their specialisation in investigative and narrative articles in a joint panel followed by a Q&A.

Screening of ‘1000 & 1000 Nights’ and ‘Refugees for Life’ by Hady Zaccak, followed by Q&A.