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Malika lives alone in the middle of the desert. There she runs a small restaurant serving two d…
Hassen Ferhani / Algeria, France, Qatar / Feature Documentary
Mustafa and his wife Salwa come from two Palestinian villages that are only 200 meters apart, b…
Ameen Nayfeh / Palestine, Jordan, France, Germany, Italy, Qatar / Feature Narrative
Abla runs a modest local bakery from her home in Casablanca where she lives alone with her 8-ye…
Maryam Touzani / Morocco, France, Belgium, Qatar / Feature Narrative
After living a relatively normal life as a student studying in Berlin, Hassan reluctantly accep…
Ali Kareem Obaid / Iraq, Italy, Germany, Qatar / Feature Narrative
Six-year-old Leila and her mother, Sara, have a close relationship. They live a comfortable lif…
Hend Fakhroo / Qatar / Feature Narrative
It all happened one dark night. The Man was tired of being a stranger, tired of being insulted…
Valentin Noujaïm / Lebanon, France, Qatar / Short Documentary
Malik, an eighteen-year-old with flaming red hair, returns to his small village in Tunisia afte…
Meryam Joobeur / Canada, Tunisia, Qatar, Sweden / Short Narrative
To escape the ongoing aerial bombardment on hospitals and chemical weapon attacks that killed m…
Feras Fayyad / Syria, Denmark, United States of America, Qatar / Feature Documentary
Between 1915 and 1918, a famine killed an estimated two hundred thousand people, almost half of…
Reine Mitri / Lebanon, Qatar / Feature Documentary
The southern West Bank with its beautiful landscapes is home to many Palestinian Bedouins. In t…
Daniel Carsenty, Mohammed Abugeth / Palestine, Germany, Qatar / Feature Documentary
In a documentary filmed over four years, filmmaker Sedika Mojadidi intimately follows two uncon…
Sedika Mojadidi / Afghanistan, United States of America, Qatar / Feature Documentary
Filmed over five years, 'Freedom Fields' follows three women and their football team in post-re…
Naziha Arebi / Libya, United Kingdom, Netherlands, United States of America, Qatar, Lebanon, Canada / Feature Documentary
Over four seasons, we follow the labour-filled days of Gevar, a Syrian refugee, whose small gar…
Qutaiba Barhamji / Syria, France, Qatar / Feature Documentary
In a village of the Lebanese Chouf, ten-year-old Ruba lives in a dream world filled with witche…
Hiam Abbass / Palestine, Lebanon, France, Germany, Denmark, Qatar / Feature Narrative
After securing her first catch of the day while crab-hunting with her father and brother, brigh…
Nouf Al Sulaiti / Qatar / Short Narrative
It’s 2006 and Baghdad is ravaged by sectarian violence. Haifa Street is the epicentre of the co…
Mohanad Hayal / Iraq, Qatar / Feature Narrative
Abdul’Rohim and his friends are young Rohingyas fleeing persecution in Myanmar to find refuge i…
Faïza Yakoubi / Algeria, Romania, France, Qatar / Feature Documentary
The heartless sea is relentlessly approaching poor grandmother’s house. By losing her five sens…
Nicolas Fattouh / Lebanon, Germany, Qatar / Short Narrative
Algeria, 1516. Aruj Barbarossa, one of the most notorious pirates in history, frees Algiers fro…
Damien Ounouri, Adila Bendimerad / Algeria, France, Qatar, Saudi Arabia / Feature Narrative
In a story of how courage transcends fear, a young American girl living in Le Var, France refle…
Sara Al-Thani / Qatar, France / Short Narrative