Searching For Amal
Searching For Amal – البحث عن أمل
29 minutes | Egypt | 2020
Searching For Amal – البحث عن أمل
29 minutes | Egypt | 2020
Erased, _ Ascent of the Invisible – رحلة صعود اللامرئي – طرس
76 minutes | Lebanon | 2018
We Are from There – نحن من هناك
82 minutes | Lebanon, France | 2020
Gevar’s Land – أرض جيفارا
80 minutes | France | 2020
100 minutes | Morocco | 2019
As You Can See – زي ما انتي شايفة
7 minutes | Egypt | 2019
A musician hears his wife’s paintings, bringing his melodies to life. A painter sees her husband’s music, creating work in captivating color.
Tameem Amer | Yemen | Documentary | 2018 | 12 min
Having fled the war in Syria, Fatimah’s life in a refugee camp in Jordan is run by a patriarchal system. To maintain some peace in the tent city, she succumbs to obeying orders from males, avoiding confrontation. Fatimah talks bravely of the lack of privacy, and the constant judgement and shaming from the men around. Resilient, determined, and wise beyond her young years, she shares her lessons for survival.
In the presence of filmmaker, Omar Rammal
Omar Rammal| Jordan| Documentary| 2018| 10 min
In a village in Yemen, Ahlam confronts the status quo of females as secondary citizens with no awareness of, nor right to, their rights. She is determined to pursue education as her weapon. As the only female with a university education, she commits herself to teaching, and despite the onslaught of war that disrupts schooling, her resourcefulness enables her to find backing to forge ahead with an education for all plan.
Shadi Al-Areeqi | Yemen | Documentary | 2018 | 12 min
Samah, 15 years old, lives in miserable conditions with her family in northwestern Tunisia. Victim of a dire financial situation, the teenager takes the first step in her life on an identical path to that of her mother and ancestors.
Anis Absi| Tunisia| Documentary| 2018| 26 min
Forty years ago, she fled with her parents from Lebanon to Greece. Now filmmaker Cynthia Choucair sees how history is repeating itself. The Greek island of Lesbos is being flooded with refugees. It’s an ideal spot for Clowns Without Borders, an organisation that welcomes refugees with humour and cheerfulness, as an antidote to fear and mistrust. Red nose on, bubbles ready to be blown: the group of volunteers is prepared. But where are the refugees?
Cynthia Choucair| Lebanon| Documentary| 2018| 85 min
Grandma Susu (80), her daughter Doaa (50), and her grandchild Saad (16) are forced to flee the Syrian civil war and live in diaspora, united by the desire to return home.
Leen Alfaisal| UAE, Jordan, Lebanon| Documentary| 2017| 56 min
Can the men who risked their lives in Afghanistan restore the records of its colorful diverse past…?
What kind of resistance will emerge when extremists ban music in Mali?
A documentary by Carol Mansour depicting the political aftermath of war victims.
Where do you hide from danger when you can’t hide anywhere? The Kurdish girl Bahar believes she has found a way. This is the story of Bahar, a little girl, who given the circumstances shes in cannot be a child. In order to fight her fears, she believes that she can be invisible by closing her eyes.
From his perspective, how would an eight year old Palestian kid ‘Milad’ see the wars of the adults?
A Palestinian poet and an Italian journalist help five Palestinians and Syrians reach Sweden.
Documentary of the lives of Armenians in Egypt, their history, and stories.
Film director Leila Sansour returns to Bethlehem to make a film about her home town, soon to be encircled by a wall. She left the city as a teenager thinking that Bethlehem was too small and provincial. She never wanted to return but this time she is making an exception. She intends her film to be a tribute to her late father, founder of Bethlehem University, and a man regarded as a hero by his town’s folk. As Bethlehem approaches ruin her decision to flee this sleepy town, taken much to her father’s regret, comes to haunt her.