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The events of Sheikh Jackson date back to Thursday, June 25th, 2009 and the death of Michael Jackson who shook the world, especially one of the senators whom Jackson had nicknamed in his school years. But what links Sheikh and Imam to the American mythology? And the most important question is, will he be able to practice his life naturally after that, or will his memories and relationships be restored to the most important question in his soul? Is he a Sheikh or Jackson or the two in the heart of one man?

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A group of young women tweak machines and hammer away at a school for auto mechanics in Ouagadougou in this poetic story about life choices, sisterhood and the endeavor to find your own way.

In a country with youth unemployment at 52 percent, jobs are a hot issue. The young girls at a mechanics school in Burkina Faso's capital, Ouagadougou are right in the middle of a crucial point in life when their dreams, hopes and courage are confronted with opinions, fears and society's expectations of what a woman should be. Theresa Traore Dahlberg documents their last school years and at the same time succeeds at showing the country's violent past and present.

A Drowning Man by Mahdi Fleifel

Alone and far from home, a kid makes his way through a strange city looking for the means to get through his day. Surrounded by predators he is forced to make compromises merely to survive while his life of exile grows one day longer.

Roof Knocking by Sina Salimi

Gaza during the holy month of Ramadan. A mother rushes to abandon her home after receiving a phone message telling her she has 10 minutes to leave. But what will be lost when the bomb hits?

In the Future They Ate from the Finest Porcelain by Larissa Sansour

This film resides in the cross-section between sci-fi, archaeology and politics. Combining live motion and CGI, the film explores the role of myth for history, fact and national identity. A narrative resistance group makes underground deposits of elaborate porcelain – suggested to belong to an entirely fictional civilization. Their aim is to influence history and support future claims to their vanishing lands.

Your Father was Born 100 Years Old, and so was the Nakba by Razan Al Salah

"If I were walking, I would have found it, even if it's not here anymore." Oum Amin, a Palestinian grandmother, returns to her hometown Haifa through Google Maps Streetview, today, the only way she can see Palestine.

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After five years of war, the remaining citizens of Aleppo are still under siege. Help comes from the White Helmets, the civilian corps who act as emergency services to people caught up in bombing and attacks. ‘Last Men In Aleppo’ explores the daily lives of these brave souls, surrounded by death and destruction and their struggle to keep the streets safe. This heartrending, uplifting document of human spirit, resilience and courage won Last Men In Aleppo the Grand Jury Prize (World Cinema – Documentary) at Sundance.

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Ouled Allal is an area ravaged by war during the 1990s in Algeria. A constellation of beings, voices, bodies, and buildings face the test of time and live the scars of a slow war without fronts. In his debut feature film, Djamel Kerkar remembers a dark epoche of Algeria. Among the ruins, memory travels; images and sounds draw a poetic map and a psycho-geographical exploration of the place.  Algeria's battle with terrorism may have ended in 2002. But the trauma of 200,000 deaths still lingers on.

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Ivan is constantly picked on by bullies until a witch mixes a magic potion that makes him the best at everything for one day

Animation, 80 min, Denmark