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Mariam wants to have a nice night out, so she takes to the dancefloor at the benefit she has or…
Kaouther Ben Hania / Tunisia, France, Sweden, Norway, Lebanon, Switzerland, Germany, Qatar / Feature 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
High in the Atlas Mountains in Morocco, life in an isolated rural Amazigh community has changed…
Tala Hadid / Morocco, Qatar / Feature Documentary
A young woman wanders about an abandoned cinema, rummaging through its storerooms and curiously…
Rawda Al-Thani / Qatar / Short Narrative
Adnan is a revolutionary war hero whose love for fighting and his AK-47 are rivalled only by hi…
hajooj kuka / Sudan, South Africa, Germany, Qatar / Feature Narrative
Out in the beautiful quiet of the windswept dunes, a man teaches his young sons the traditional…
A.J. 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
‘The Maiden’s Pond’ tells the story of two women trying to maintain and negotiate their lives w…
Bassem Breche / Lebanon, Germany, France, Qatar / Feature 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
Emotionless Bahtan meets hyperactive Felfella and together they discover the secrets behind Bah…
Nermeen Salem / Egypt, 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
‘Nouss Nouss’ portrays an encounter between Western and Arab cultures via the story of a French…
Leila Albayaty / Iraq, France, Germany, Qatar / Feature Experimental or Essay
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