Films

Winner, Cultural Diversity Award Under the Patronage of UNESCO, 2016 Shortly after the engagement of Reko and Pero, a young Yazidi couple living in the…

Winner, Jury Grand Prize, 2015 Istanbul is in the grip of political violence. The state uses new underground techniques in the hunt for terrorists in shantytowns.…

Winner, Cultural Diversity Award under the patronage of UNESCO, 2015 Mohammed and his sister Farrah are in many ways oblivious to their troubled surroundings. They…

In a sunny Turkish village by the Black Sea, five spirited and adolescent sisters find themselves confronted with the restrictions of becoming a woman in…

Arabia, 1916. Theeb lives with his Bedouin tribe in a forgotten corner of the Ottoman Empire. Having recently lost his father, it falls to Theeb’s…

Filmed during the massive Israeli war on Lebanon in the summer of 2006, 33 Days follows the real-life stories of four people: a theatre director…

Winner, Best Youth Feature Film, 2017 The director-producer of APSA 2012 Best Children’s Feature Film award winner The Mirror Never Dies returns with The Seen…

The Lebanese Civil War may be over but the Syrian one still rages on. In Beirut, Syrian refugees take jobs as construction workers, building skyscrapers…

Winner, Cultural Diversity Award under the patronage of UNESCO, 2017 Set in 1992 amid the remote Ushguli community of Georgia’s Svaneti province in the country’s…

Abu Shadi is a divorced father and a school teacher in his mid-60s living in Nazareth. After his daughter’s wedding in one month he will be living…

In the late 1980s, 15-year-old Qodrat lives in the streets of Kabul and sells cinema tickets on the black market. He is a big fan…

Told through the director’s alter ego, Palestinian filmmaker Elia Suleiman (ES) escapes from Palestine seeking an alternative homeland. On his travels, however, he finds parallels…

Ava is 17 years old with a passion for the violin, crushes on boys and a typical adolescent rebellious streak. When Ava is marched to…

Director Talal Derki embedded himself with the family of Abu Osama in northern Syria impersonating as pro-jihadi war photographer. A founding member of the Al…

Coming of age as a teenager is hard enough without being forced to do so amid the political and social upheaval of a national revolution.…

Chased by the army, a human trafficker crosses the border on a daily basis. An intimate yet harrowing portrait – shot over the course of…

Rehana, an assistant professor at a medical college, struggles to keep the harmony between work and family, as she has to play all the complex…

With his father in prison and his brother abroad for work, young Rakibworks as the lone housekeeper in an empty mansion belonging to Purna,a retired…

On an impulse to reconnect with her origins, Freddie, 25, returns to South Korea for the first time, where she was born before being adopted…

Tamer is a Palestinian teenager living in Israel. He and his friends lead a typical high school student’s life until the arrival of the beautiful…

One night, a boy collecting cicadas in the forest disappears. There is a rumour that the village is being stalked at night by child kidnappers…

The first amongst her friends to hit puberty, Zaffan, 12, discovers a terrifying secret about her body. Ostracised by her community, Zaffan fights back, learning…

Following her mother’s death, a British Jewish girl is moved by her father from London to Jerusalem in the hopes that a new beginning can…

After the sudden death of her husband, Nawal, in her 30s, has to fight for her part of the inheritance in order to save her…

In a Himalayan polyandrous village, pregnant Pema faces scrutiny when her husband vanishes. With her monk brother-in-law, her de facto spouse, she seeks the husband…

In Democratic Kampuchea (Cambodia) in 1978, three French journalists are invited by the Khmer Rouge to conduct an exclusive interview of the regime’s leader, Pol…