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.
FILMS//أفلام
Suspended Dawn
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.
The Girls Who Burned The Night//من يحرقن الليل
Country: Saudi Arabia
Director: Sara Mesfer
Length: 24 mins
Synopsis: In an engagement night, a denied request pushes two sisters to their edge. Salsabel, a 13 years old Saudi girl who fights to go to the grocery shop in a city where it’s socially unacceptable experiences hardship in her relationship with her older sister Wasan who the fear of the night’s darkness and refuses to go. Later that day, the two sisters find a way to their desires by burning the night.
The Journey//الرحلة
Country: Iraq
Director: Mohamed Al-Daradji
Length: 82 mins
Synopsis: Sara enters Baghdad station with sinister intentions for its reopening ceremony. As she braces to commit an unthinkable act, her plans are drastically altered by an unwanted and awkward encounter with Salam, a self-assured and flirtatious salesman.
This film is not suitable for children.
The Last Queen//الملكة الأخيرة
Country: Algeria
Director: Damien Ounouri, Adila Bendimerad
Length: 110 mins
Synopsis: Insipired in the legendary Princess Zaphira, wife of the last King of Algiers Salim Toumi, and his fight to defend her community from pirate Barbarossa.
The Laughing Woo Woo
Country: United States
Director: Amir Youssef
Length: 17 mins
Synopsis: A proof-of-concept short film about Simsim – a lonesome Egyptian asylee in San Francisco with a wooingly contagious laugh, is battling his bizarre misfortunes to follow immigration procedures, and his only hope is his greedy lawyer Dale.
The Lebanese Burger Mafia//مافيا البرجر اللبنانية
Country: Canada, Lebanon
Director: Omar Mouallem
Length: 103 mins
Synopsis: The meaty saga of a rogue fast- food chain with mysterious origins, a cult following, and a secret pathway to the immigrant dream.
The Old Kalbelouz
Country: Algeria
Director: Imène Ayadi
Length: 10 mins
Synopsis:In Algiers, Ahmed 70 years old wakes up alone at home, he will start a day immersed in his thoughts. Who is he talking to?
The Old Oak
Country: 2023
Director: Ken Loach
Length: 113 mins
Synopsis: A pub landlord in a previously thriving mining community struggles to hold onto his pub. Meanwhile, tensions rise in the town when Syrian refugees are placed in the empty houses in the community.