KHALED EL SHEIKH BETWEEN THE THORNS OF ART AND POLITICS

By: Jamal Kutbi
Bahraini singer Khaled Al-Sheikh’s name is synonymous with musical innovation, which has brought ...

HWJN

By: Yasir Alyasiri
Based on the best-selling Saudi fantasy novel by Ibraheem Abbas, Hwjn is set in a world where dji...

ALL ROADS LEAD TO ROME

By: Lara Saba
Award-winning Lebanese director Lara Saba turns her attention from frantic daily life in Beirut –...

HOW I GOT THERE

By: Zeyad ( Z ) Alhusaini
When two childhood friends – now grown up and dabbling in the illegal alcohol trade – find a cach...

VALLEY ROAD

By: Khaled Fahd
Ali is perceived by his family and the people of the beautiful Saudi Arabian mountain village whe...

QUEENS

By: Yasmine Benkiran
With a nod to Thelma and Louise, Moroccan director Yasmine Benkiran follows two women and a young...

AL KHALLAT +

By: Fahad Alammari
From the creators of the digital series Al Khallat, which amassed over 1.5 billion views and defi...

KAMLA

By: John Ikram Sawers
Kamla is deeply committed to her work as a psychiatrist; her patients find her both supportive an...

FOUR DAUGHTERS

By: Kaouther Ben Hania
The Chikhaoui family hit the news in 2016 when two of the formidable Olfa Houmani’s four teenage ...

HAJJAN

By: Abu Bakr Shawky
Hajjan is both an adventure story and a moving account of the deep bond that can develop between ...

FEVER DREAM

By: Faris Godus
(Abdulsamad) A retired football star, notorious and oppressed by the media, cooperates with his d...

THREE

By: Nayla Alkhaja
A psychological horror in which western and traditional Arab belief systems alternately clash and...

BACK TO ALEXANDRIA

By: Tamer Ruggli
The complexities of the bonds between mothers and daughters are brought to life by celebrated Fre...

NAGA

By: Meshal Aljaser
After her father drops her off at the market, Sarah discreetly sneaks away on a date in the hopes...

SHAMAREEKH

By: Amr Salama
Raouf, the illegitimate son of ruthless Egyptian arms dealer Salim Ahel, works in the shadows doi...

A NOSE AND THREE EYES

By: Amir Ramses
An adaptation of the late Egyptian literary colossus Ihssan Abdoulkoudos’s novel of the same name...

A.K.A.

By: Geetika Narang Abbasi
Film star lookalikes are as much part of Indian popular culture as the revered actors who front t...

RHINEGOLD

By: Fatih Akin
Born during a bombing raid in a cave swarming with bats, Giwar Jajabi, aka Xatar, was never going...

SONNE

By: Kurdwin Ayub
Kurdish Austrian Yesmin (Melina Benli) isn’t especially religious, but she wears a hijab in publi...

FALCON LAKE

By: Charlotte Le Bon
Two teenagers develop a close bond when thrown together on a family holiday in Quebec, where they...

WALK UP

By: Hong Sangsoo
Korean miniaturist Hong Sang-soo serves up his signature blend of awkward meetings, table talk an...

METRONOM

By: Alexandru Belc
The year is 1972; Nikolai Ceausescu has ruled Romania with an iron fist for seven years. Politics...

LIVING

By: Oliver Hermanus
Nobel laureate Kazuo Ishiguro relocates Akira Kurosawa's 1952 masterpiece Ikiru to London, where ...

RICEBOY SLEEPS

By: Anthony Shim
So-young (Choi Syung-yoon) was an abandoned baby raised in a Korean orphanage; when she comes as ...

THE GRAVITY

By: Cédric Ido
The crime-ridden Parisian banlieues are familiar from films such as La Haine and Les Miserables, ...