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- A young Palestinian schoolteacher gives birth to her son in an Israeli prison where she fights to protect him, survive and maintain hope.
- In Tamatave, Rita and Lalia are two young primary school teachers. They face up to the children's difficulties in a first grade class. One is in a public school, the other is in a private school. They live very different conditions of teaching and life in a country where education is unfortunately not a priority.
- Ruba grew up in an exiled family and internalized her mother's memories and difficulties. She seeks to deconstruct her memories in order to recreate a new narrative that allows her to face her sense of permanent alienation. But a question remains: is life as attractive when you are no longer a stranger?
- In a Tunisian village El Omrane in Sidi Bouzid (283 km from Tunis), massive arrests against young people who demonstrated their right to work. The elders of the town decide to start a hunger strike. Hamza 12, helps us discover the village, between resistance and memory.
- The sole pleasure of Ala, a literature professor and poetry lover, is to share drunkenness with poets. «The Epistle of Mercy», a work about Heaven and Hell, written nearly a thousand years ago, is the subject of the day. In his inebriation, the waitress and bar owner become characters from this work.
- Tayma is a rural Syrian who believes that her happiness is linked to her family, she leaves school and marries Jamil, who dies in the war, leaving Tema and their daughter Nay, forcing her to open a small restaurant in the village. A successful life away from her family.
- When he awakes six feet underground in a coffin with a bottle of whiskey, a torch and a Talkie-Walkie, Youssef realizes it's a joke. But the hours pass and nobody comes to find him. His friends, the only people who knew where he is, have all died in a road accident.
- Yusif is half Danish, half Arab travels to the Middle Eastern city of Medina - along with his pregnant Danish wife, Sarah. Yusif wants to start a new life with his wife in his father's hometown. He is convinced that this is where he belongs and happiness lies ahead. But shortly after their arrival, Yusif is unintentionally responsible for a beggar boy's death. The people of the street beat up Sarah and Yusif. She miscarries. He is put in prison for murder. The only thing that keeps Yusif's spirit up in the Arab prison, is the thought of seeing Sarah again and his faith in God. But when he realizes that he has to sit in a prison hole for the rest of his life, he loses his patience, faith and hope. All that is left is anger towards the Creator he used to love.
- The film tells the story of a Muslim sheikh living with his grandson in the recently liberated territories of ISIS in Iraq. The Sheikh tries to bring joy to the heart of his grandson and his Christian friends living in a camp for the displaced, but the hand of terrorism prevents him from doing so.
- Two students, Ghada and Nadra, share a flat. One day in the town they fancy a boy. Since they tell each other everything, each sings the praises of the boy she has met, showing him off to best advantage. But neither girl knows they are talking about the same boy.
- Amal, a PhD student in the Department of Sociology. She is 28 years old and she lives with her 52 years old mother Samira who works in a public library. Amal maintains her hobby of cinema. Samira helps her daughter to film interviews with the mothers of immigrant children in order to accomplish a research on the human capital flight which is the topic of her PhD research.
- Salwa, in Cairo to finish some paperwork, decides to visit her younger brother Hassan. After their late parents' divorce, they were brought up apart, she by her mother. She spends a day with Hassan in the old family home where he still lives. Despite their initial coldness, they finally discover one another.
- Jesús lives with his father on the shore of a large lake. José, his older brother, has returned home carrying with him a criminal past. This morning, Jesús accompanies him in search for a job that would help restore his reputation.
- While the Malagasy capital Antananarivo is in the turmoil of a political crisis, the filmmaker Hamy Ratovo fights against the censorship of his film in the margins of the demonstrations. Mixing real facts and fiction, «Antananarivo Tiako Ianao» is the story of the massacre that occurred in Antananarivo on the 7th of February 2009.
- A moment of life of a young couple who finds themselves facing a probable eternal separation.
- Koukou is called crazy for his different behavior. The village elders committee and his father decide to put him in a mental asylum.
- A few months before the revolution in Tunisia, 18 year-old Farah has a passion for life and sings in a political rock band. Her mother, knowing the dangers of Tunisia, wants her to pursue a career as a doctor.
- The only entertainment for 10-year-old Aya, a domestic helper, is some TV and her fantasies about the sea. With her handicapped neighbor, she seeks a way to make her dream come true.
- The North, home of wheat and legends; a group of women narrating their stories that are shaped by the pain, sorrow and boldness of their society. These women are distinguished by the way they express their emotions of agony and grief (crying-singing), the way which they inherited from their ancestor's songs which have become people's legends that are still sung up to now.
- Algiers, 2015. Adlan and Terrorist navigate the Sacré Coeur neighborhood, desperately trying to make a few dinars.
- A newly appointed teacher has just bought a second hand toy car. He has an appointment with a Broker for the rental of a house. At the sight of his new car, all the professor's interlocutors change their attitude, they all become friendly and kind and helpful. The Broker, the owner, the neighbor, the grocer of his new neighborhood, the neighborhood pound agent (Changuel) and so many others.
- How to make a film on violence without directly showing or reproducing it? The film Our terrible country attempts to respond to this approach by taking us on the perilous journey of Yassin Haj Saleh, a well-known Syrian intellectual and dissident, and young photographer Ziad Homsi who travel together in an arduous, dangerous route from the liberated area of Douma, Damascus to Raqqa in northern Syria, only to find themselves eventually forced to leave their home country for a temporary exile.
- In the heart of Ouagadougou, a granite quarry where nearly 2,500 people, adults and children, work in Dantean conditions, on the margins of a society that refuses to see them. But in 2014, the revolution went through this and blew on the minds, a wind of emancipation and hope. A certain audacity..
- A middle-class man meets a girl from a rich family, and the two begin dating in a society where such unions are frowned upon.
- The story of the people of the Blue Nile and Nuba Mountains in Sudan, showing how they deal with civil war. Traditionally music has always been part of daily life in these areas, but now, it has a new role in a society challenge by war.
- The story of Lucas, a 13 year-old kid who swears vengeance to the man that abuses his mother in exchange for a miserable life.
- Very late one night, we knock on Magda's door. It is her neighbor whom she is madly in love who comes to seek refuge. She hosts it, and hopes. But, all she has to live with this man is maybe to have him in the next room, only, for one night.
- A couple in love come from the far countryside to the city, where fate deals them a bitter blow by separating them.
- An ordinary family whose life takes a dramatic turn. Between despair, guilt and desire for life, how to reconstruct when you face the unacceptable ?
- Shana, is young 29 years old woman from central Africa , who was arrested in West Africa for drug trafficking. In addition to this tragic incident, she discovered her pregnancy and realizes that her child will be born in prison without being surrounded by his loved ones.
- "Burning Hope" is at once the story of an unlikely friendship and the portrait of a fragile country haunted by so many ghosts. Between investigation and intimate story, the movie tells the crossed destinies of two young women and a teenager in a post-revolution Tunisia, swinging between hopes and disillusionment.
- After 20 years spent in jail, a political prisoner is released in the midst of the Arab Spring. A TV crew doing a report on the social movements in Morocco decides to follow him in the quest of hist past...
- Fleeing the Syrian war, an old man and his grandson got lost in Lebanon. Abed Al-Hadi, the 7 years old grandson, is forced to protect and care for his sick grandfather. Abed has no choice but to beg on the streets in order to provide the old man with the medicine he desperately needs.
- A Tunisian poet settles in France. Facing the blank page, he roams the streets of Paris without purpose or vocation. Images of Tunis come back to him and he seems to want to escape. During a nocturnal wandering, He crosses over a young woman. This meeting will oblige him to confront his past.
- Malek puts his camera at the service of El Watan, a prestigious publication in an unstable democracy. This is a telling of the encounters that take place at the paper, and a reflection on freedom of the press.
- A university lecturer's return home from the US to Ghana is the starting point for this interweaving of journeys. The film deals with motherhood, sisterhood and group identity, exile, loss, trauma and the pull of home, choices and sacrifices and the existential quest.
- Chouf: it means "look" in Arabic, but it is also the name of the watchmen in the drug cartels of Marseille. Sofiane is 20. A brilliant student, he comes back to spend his holiday in the Marseille ghetto where he was born. His brother, a dealer, gets shot before his eyes. Sofiane gives up on his studies and gets involved in the drug network, ready to avenge him. He quickly rises to the top and becomes the boss's right hand. Trapped by the system, Sofiane is dragged into a spiral of violence.
- Ala, Ahmed and Mahdi are only seventeen years old yet they do not see their lives without rap music. Despite the conflicting aspect which disturbs their relations with their families and their close surroundings, which disapprove their choices, they chose to follow their passion for music and notoriety by crossing all the limits.
- While investigating a smugglers' turf war in Cape Town, township cop Sizwe discovers police corruption. He must set loyalty aside to act with integrity, alone.
- "Colocynth" is a wild plant which fruits give a very bitter pulp. This bitter taste is also the fruit of a language used by people who were born around March, 20, 1956, date of Tunisian Independence. These speeches of people of various age, sex, and ideologies, reveal the ill-treatment they experienced during the period of their detention at both physical and psychological levels. "Coloquinte" explores an inhuman past and aims at stopping the pain and bitterness, and making sure such atrocities will not happen in the future.
- Three women - grandmother, mother and daughter - live hidden away in an old building in Damascus. They have chosen to live in voluntary imprisonment, cutting themselves off from a city in a constant state of siege. As war rages outside, the women wander through the rooms like ghosts who are still alive, with passionate Syrian soap operas as the surreal soundtrack. The first film by a young documentary maker, a symbolic, almost abstract, complex and fierce reflection on the tragic destiny of a country.
- The documentary focuses on the political, social, economical and ecological conditions of cereal and demonstrates how the food question is in fact at the heart of the issue of individual and collective human dignity as well as Tunisian's local and national food independence and sovereignty.
- In an imaginary and fantastic world approaching the setting of Paradise, we witness the unfolding of the trial of Adam and Eve following the theft of an apple. Within the court, comedy takes its place by adopting current ambiguities in the context mentioned. And finally, the verdict is delivered to the surprise of the accused.
- Decor is about "choices" we make in life. Can one major choice haunt us to the extent of wishing to imagine or live our alternate options of such choice? Decor is an incredible journey down that rabbit hole.
- In Gaza, two hairdressers and ten customers of various ages and backgrounds spend the day trapped in a beauty salon while Hamas police fight a gang in the street.
- Lamine is a Senegalese student and she is filming a car-share in Quebec. The passengers are Rémi, a minority film-maker, and Nataly, a native American. When Rémi calls the inhabitants of Quebec 'America's white niggers' tension rises. Then a mysterious passenger joins them to warn them of the state of the world in 2050.
- Ametsa has been in a clinic for some months, the same time she has not been able to sleep. Affected by a strange type of insomnia, she tries to bear the sleeplessness as best she can. But months go by and Ametsa starts to doubt whether her condition may get better.
- A family of four generations in their house in the Lebanese mountains. A dog. What does it mean to live in war that constantly changes features and never ends? What does it mean to care for a family in such a situation? Which values do you teach your children? What is society in a civil war? Or the nation?
- A job is a once-in-a-lifetime chance. What if the wait is too long? What happens when the opportunity comes by at an unexpected moment?
- In an asylum designed for political opponents to the ruling system, residents are subjected to oppressive practices. The repression is practiced by all the staff, and led by Hazem the director. The resistance is manifested through Nidhal, an activist who has spent his life in jail.