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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.

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Domestic work is a real market in Lebanon, segmented according to the national and ethnic origins of the workers and in which the Lebanese employer is master. Zein owns a domestic worker agency in Beirut. He arranges for Asian and African women to work in Lebanese households and assists his clients in choosing “mail-order” housemaids that will best suit their needs. Advertisement, justice and police are on his side. He decides to open his agency for the film.

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Topper is an optimistic young boy with a vivid imagination. He is also in love with Cilla, but she thinks he’s very crazy. One day Topper finds a pencil and draws a rhino that comes to life! This changes everything

Animation, 60 minutes, Denmark

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An exchange project between two circus schools, one in the West Bank, the other in Molenbeek in Belgium, brings together two groups of youngsters of vulnerable zones. They both have their own stories about the way their environment is being represented, but they try to transform the negativity, the violence, and the discrimination they are confronted with into a constructive project. Their worlds change when they enter the circus tent. Circus not only means tricks and movements for them, it is a way to deal with the challenges of the society in which they live.

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Dagmar the dancing mosquito has the hots for egon but egon , putting love on hold, is a busy achieving the ultimate sprint on his bike and wants to see the world

Animation, 75 minutes, Denmark

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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