Country: Lebanon
Director: Elie Khalifé
Length: 100 mins
Synopsis: Living in Beirut, a highly enthusiastic filmmaker is in a state of hyper inspiration characterized by an overfiow of contrasting ideas. As a consequence, his characters will go through compelling and extraordinary circumstances. To clear his mind, he heads north where a screening of his short films is scheduled in a rural public school. A series of encounters along the way will turn his world upside down.
FILMS//أفلام
State of Agitation//قلتلك خلص
Storm Child
Country: Canada
Director: Ines Guennaoui
Length: 12 mins
Synopsis: Storm Child is a nightmarish incursion in the tormented mind of a four year old child. Yasmine and her family are Algerian refugees who just arrived in Québec during the infamous 1998 ice storm.
Strangers After Midnight
Country: Syria
Director: Kinda Youssef
Length: 22 mins
Synopsis: Moments that unfolded late one night in the life of four Syrian refugees in Paris.
Streams//أطياف
Country: Tunisia
Director: Mehdi Hmili
Length: 122 mins
Synopsis: Amel is released from prison after an adulterous affair. In the violent streets of Tunis, she seeks her missing son Moumen, a young football player destroyed by the scandal.
Sugar Cage//قفص السكر
Country: Syria
Director: Zeina Qahwaji
Length: 60 mins
Synopsis: In an attempt to record a standstill time, the filmmaker examines her intimate life with her aging parents over the course of 8 years since the beginning of war in Syria. The film is questioning a life style, and scenes of isolation and stagnancy that overshadow life in Syria. In parallel, it is observing an intimate, human affection that’s maybe rooted deeper than we may imagine.
Sukar//سُكَّر
Country: Morocco
Director: Illias El Faris
Length: 11 mins
Synopsis: Casablanca’s beach, Morocco. Teenager’s desire for each other is growing discreetly. Adults and children oversee. A fight creates a diversion.
Summer 2006
Country: Czech Republic
Director: Farah Abou Kharroub
Length: 7 mins
Synopsis: Thirteen-year-old Farah filmed a bomb as it hit Beirut’s airport. Her father filmed the years of fighting in Lebanon every day as a war reporter. Images of the city at war are mixed with images of household peace from Farah’s childhood. This collage, created from footage shot by father and daughter, reveals the unbearable length of a conflict that affected two generations.
Suspended Dawn
Country: Palestine
Director: Essa Grayeb
Length: 19 mins
Synopsis: Suspended Dawn is a poetic archeological excavation of Egypt’s golden age, the video essay is divided into chapters featuring digital manipulations overlaying footage from Chahine’s film and sounds.
Tadur//تدور
Country: Lebanon
Director: Jad Andari
Length: 50 mins
Synopsis: A young farmer on the outskirts of a mountain village wastes away with gangsters and prostitutes who lurk in the forest.
Take My Breath//المايين
Country: Tunisia
Director: Nada Mezni Hafaiedh
Length: 95 mins
Synopsis: When Shams’ intersex identity is exposed, the young seamstress’ tranquil life unravels.
Tala’Vision//تالافيزيون
Country: Germany, Jordan
Director: Murad Abu Eisheh
Length: 27 mins
Synopsis: Trapped in a war ridden reality, with the hope of one day playing in the neighborhood’s football field, 8 year old Tala finds solace and freedom in a forbidden television. However, the secret TV becomes a matter of life and death.
Talking About Trees//الحديث عن الأشجار
Country: Sudan, France, Chad, Germany, Qatar
Director: Suhaib Gasmelbari
Length: 94 mins
Synopsis: Four older Sudanese filmmakers with passion for film battle to bring cinema-going back to Sudan, not without resistance. Their ‘Sudanese Film Club’ have decided to revive an old cinema, and again draw attention to Sudanese film history. The film intermittently weaves in clips from their films, many which were lost or banned due to their political leanings.
Tawargit
Country: Morocco
Director: Karim Barka
Length: 3 mins
Synopsis: A video take of a shadow of young fisherman from the Atlantic coast as a creature from another world. In seeing his shadow in the water, he imagines himself as a fish traveling through water to be wherever he wants.
Tender Threads//حبال المودة
Country: Morocco
Director: Ouijdane Khallid
Length: 24 mins
Synopsis: The routine of daily life between Radia and her mother generates an awful discomfort and becomes a major obstacle to Radia’s emotional future and her relationship with her mother. This monotony therefore cause an unexpected cleavage.
The Battle of Empty Stomachs//معركة الأمعاء الخاوية
Country: 2024
Director: Diana Al-Halabi
Length: 23 mins
Synopsis: A group of actors from the diaspora walks toward their refuge wearing their food and culture. A challenging walk full of obstacles. Exodus happens forcibly. Exodus happens near the invisible. Exodus happens when the masses migrate. Trends happen when the masses adopt an observed fashion. But what happens when the fashion walk is unattended?
The Day I Lost My Shadow//يوم أضعت ظلي
Director: Soudade Kaadan
Length: 90 mins
Synopsis: As winter hits hard in Syria, all Sana wants is to cook a hot meal for her son. When a seemingly simple errand search for gas goes awry, Sana is dragged deeper into the conflict, where people lose their shadows.
This film is not suitable for children.
The Departure
Country: France, Morocco
Director: Said Hamich
Length: 25 mins
Synopsis: Morocco, 2004. The summer of Adil, 11 years old, is upset by the visit of his father and his big brother, who leave for France in just a few days …
The Desert Rocker
Country: Algeria, Morocco, Canada, France
Director: Sara Nacer
Length: 75 mins
Synopsis: The Desert Rocker is an intimate, witty and profound portrait of the extraordinary Hasna El Becharia, a pioneer Gnawa artist.
The Disaster Cannot Be Contained//كان يمكن أن لا أكون
Country: Netherlands, Lebanon
Director: Diana Al-Halabi
Length: 25 mins
Synopsis: Starting with her obsessive love of ports, filmmaker Diana Al-Halabi narrates her experience on a tugboat in the port of Beirut in 2017.
The Factory
Country: Syria
Director: Yanal Mansour
Length: 46 mins
Synopsis: A feature documentary film that deals with a group of events experienced by Captain Maher, a firefighter who, through a personal voluntary initiative, enters public schools teaching a subject he called “public safety,” where students are taught a set of ways to survive possible mistakes caused by war or environmental disasters.