Synopsis

In modern day Marrakech, Noha, Randa, Soukaina, and Hlima live a life of ‘love for sale’. They’re objects of desire and flashes of flesh. In the heat of the night money flows freely, to the rhythms of pleasures and humiliations suffered. But united in their womanhood, they’re queens of their kingdom. Full of light, dignity and joy, they manage to keep their spirits and dreams alive. They’re loved, they’re unloved, they’re much too loved...

Ten Bell Tolls by Eli Rezik

The story of Elias, a 10 year-old reticent orphan living with his grandparents; a priest and a delusional grandmother. Due to unfortunate events, Elias must face the bitterness of life while dealing with his troubled grandmother and the people trying to separate them from each other.

Swing by Shadi Habib Allah

Siblings Muhand and Rasha move to a new village and are subjected to ridicule and scorn as the local children know that their mother was murdered by their father in an "honor killing".
 

Between Two Deaths by Amir Fakhreddin

Kameel and Zenab are two Syrian farmers living under Israeli occupation in the Occupied Golan Heights. The two are torn between the echoes of the constant shelling in Syria, and decades old Israeli forced occupation.

The Day My Father Dies by Nayef Hammoud

Saleh is an acting student in Paris, who returns to his hometown, Haifa, in order to work on a play based on a eulogy to his father, Amar.

Synopsis

Fatima, Farah and Haya are three artists from across the Arab World; marginalised by patriarchy, stifled by censorship, and divided by borders. They are, however, united by creativity, energy, and their desire for real change. Now, they come together for the first time in Barcelona, away from home. Borders and Promises follows these women as their lives and art are woven together while struggling to have their own - and countless other - voices heard.

A film by OTOXO Productions

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.

Synopsis

Mahmoud’s life is a ‘photocopy’ of millions of others. He worked as a data-entry typist in the same government job, never married, he lives a traditional life. When he settles for early retirement, he buys a nearby Storefront and sets up: “Mahmoud’s photocopy.” Here, he makes photocopies and types up documents. One day, a student asks him to type up a report on the extinction of dinosaurs. Mahmoud can’t help but begin to see some strange parallels with the state of his own life. Driven by a desire to change the depressing reality that his own lifestyle is becoming extinct, he starts a journey that leads him to revolt against his traditional life.

Synopsis

"Daya Al-Taesh" is an anti-IS satirical web series created by a group of Syrian video activists. They produce the episodes from their base in Gaziantep, Turkey. After receiving threats from IS supporters. they leave to Istanbul with the aim to broadcast an improved topical-comedy show for Syrian TV.

TICHO by Adriana Ronquillo

Ticho is a story of a young man who descends to the depths of the Earth. It is the story of love and innocence as they face the absurdity of violence, and of the conflictive relationship between humans and nature. As we accompany Ticho on his journey, we will find the madness that grows underneath the piling wreckage of progress.

Taxi Sister by Theresa Traoré Dahlberg

Boury is a female taxi driver in Dakar, Senegal. She leads a busy life full of drama, and constantly grapples with society’s archaic views on women. The film is based on the Taxi Sister project, which was started by the Senegalese state in 2007 to encourage female entrepreneurs. Ten women were offered the opportunity to get a drivers' license and buy a car on credit. Today, there are fifteen women taxi drivers in Dakar, which is nothing compared to the fifteen thousand male taxi drivers.

Rupture by Yassmina Karajah

Introducing a cast of first time actors and survivors of war who channel their personal experiences of loss and new beginnings through a fictional narrative, Rupture follows the journey of four Arab teens on their quest to find the local public pool in their new Canadian city.