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During a student party, Mariam, a young Tunisian woman, meets the mysterious Youssef and leaves…
Kaouther Ben Hania / Tunisia, France, Sweden, Norway, Lebanon, Qatar, Switzerland / Feature Narrative
Set in the South of Oman in 1978 after the Dhofar Rebellion. A story of a man called Ghafali…
Muzna Al-Musafer / Oman, Qatar / Short Narrative
Alberto, a gardener who works in the city, travels to his hometown to attend the funeral of his…
Nelson Carlo de los Santos Arias / Dominican Republic, Argentina, Germany, Qatar / Feature Narrative
Iraq, winter 1988. Daoud, a young man from Baghdad, is drafted into the war with Iran. At the f…
Koutaiba Al-Janabi / Iraq, Lebanon, Netherlands, France, Qatar / Feature Narrative
In Jeddah during the economically transformative year of 1973, a rabid neighbourhood dog cataly…
Layan Abdul Shakoor / Saudi Arabia, Qatar / Short Narrative
After an accident that causes her to lose her memory and several years of exile, a young Franco…
Leila Albayaty / Belgium, Germany, Egypt, Qatar / Feature Documentary
This evocative documentary presents life in an isolated Amazigh village in Morocco's High Atlas…
Tala Hadid / Morocco, Qatar / Feature Documentary
Out in the beautiful quiet of the windswept dunes, a man teaches his young sons the traditional…
A.J. Al Johara Al Thani / Qatar / Short Narrative
Fathi Moftah, a child refugee, is obsessed with collecting keys. One day, while he is working a…
Ghassan Jaradat / Jordan, Germany, Qatar / Short Narrative
A girl explores the forgotten memories of an abandoned cinema through a trancelike journey into…
Rawda Al-Thani / Qatar / Short Narrative
Germany, 1945. World War II is nearing its climactic end. Five-year-old Sophie and her parents…
Heinrich Sabl / Germany, France, Qatar / Feature Narrative
After giving up a promising career in museum management to attend to his ailing father, Ahmed s…
Humaid Alsuwaidi / United Arab Emirates, Qatar / Feature Narrative
A few days after the assassination of left-wing Tunisian militant Chokri Belaïd in early 2013,…
Rafik Omrani / Tunisia, Lebanon, Qatar / Feature Documentary
A wind of liberty called the Arab Spring has been blowing in this part of the world. Algeria re…
Abdallah Badis / Algeria, France, Qatar / Feature Documentary
The sun shines over an open garage in Burkina Faso’s capital, where Bintou is lacquering a car…
Theresa Traore Dahlberg / Burkina Faso, Sweden, Qatar / Feature Documentary
Diego Marcon is a man with a broken heart who journeys into the heart of the human condition on…
Basma Alsharif / Palestine, France, Qatar / Feature Experimental or Essay
Plot 35 is a place that was never mentioned in my family; it is where my elder sister, who died…
Eric Caravaca / France, Germany, Qatar / Feature Documentary
A poster appears on the walls of the Palestinian village of Reith, accusing the local women of…
Suha Arraf / Palestine, France, Germany, Qatar / Feature Narrative
They grew up in the lands of dictators and surveillance, where images are censored, photos are…
Diana El Jeiroudi / Syria, Germany, France, Qatar / Feature Documentary
Riverbed tells the story of Salma and her returning daughter Thuraya, and their attempt to pres…
Bassem Breche / Lebanon, Qatar / Feature Narrative