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  • Listen

    Ajyal Competition - Ajyal Youth Film Festival 2015

    A veiled Muslim woman pleads for protection from her violent husband, but language barriers, cu…

    Hamy Ramezan, Rungano Nyoni / Denmark, Finland / Short Narrative

  • Mariam

    Ajyal Competition - Ajyal Youth Film Festival 2016

    When France passes a law that bans Muslim women from wearing headscarves in public institutions…

    Faiza Ambah / France, Qatar, Saudi Arabia / Short Narrative

  • The Mosque

    Arab Film Competition - Doha Tribecca Film Festival 2010

    Daoud Aoulad-Syad's previous film, "Waiting for Pasolini," has just wrapped in a small Moroccan…

    Daoud Aoulad-Syad / Morocco, France / Feature Narrative

  • Of Gods and Men

    World Panorama - Doha Tribecca Film Festival 2010

    Director Xavier Beauvois uses the 1996 mystery of the Tibhirine monastery murders as a basis fo…

    Xavier Beauvois / France / Feature Narrative

  • The Offer

    Ajyal Competition - Ajyal Youth Film Festival 2015

    Sami, a Swiss man of Algerian descent, is vying for a job with the defence department, but his…

    Moïra Pitteloud / Switzerland / Short Narrative

  • Shahada

    World Panorama - Doha Tribecca Film Festival 2010

    Set in modern Berlin, the fates of three young German-born Muslims collide as they struggle to…

    Burhan Qurbani / Germany / Feature Narrative

  • Summer Fasting

    Ajyal Competition, Ajyal at Vox - Ajyal Film Festival 2021

    Scorching beneath the summer sun, eleven-year-old Kader is determined to observe Ramadan for th…

    Abdenoure Ziane / France / Short Narrative

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