TURTLE SOUP

Directed by: Choānn

Aileen’s ex-husband refuses to elaborate on their eight-year-old son’s fight in school, so she se...

NIGHT STOP

Directed by: Khadar Ayderus Ahmed

From the acclaimed Somali-born director of The Gravediggers’ Wife, which had its premiere last ye...

KROKA

Directed by: Samer Battikhi

All the theaters in town are controlled by the Brown Suits Committee, an old-fashioned greedy mid...

HOW I GREW UP

Directed by: Yufei Liu

Chinese animator Yufei Liu looked within himself for this story of an emotion that is powerful bu...

TSUTSUÉ

Directed by: Amartei Armar

Set in a small Ghanaian town surrounded by a looming landfill site that is tipping garbage into t...

THE INTRUSION

Directed by: Eden Junjung

A couple tries to dig up a freshly buried corpse in order to cut an ear from the body, believing ...

KERATIN DAY

Directed by: Sami Tlili

In a barbershop for men, it is keratin day. This means there is no shaving of beards or "ordinary...

IN THE LONG RUN

Directed by: Yousef Assabahi

Sent by his mother to buy bread for lunch, seven-year-old Ahmed runs through the historic alleywa...

EARTH IS WEEPING, ITS WATER ARE TEARS

Directed by: Mohammed Alghadhban

While Majed (30 years) is trying to find a way to express his concerns and feelings, many obstacl...

DALA BOATBREAKERS

Directed by: Kaung Swan Thar

A first film from an emerging Myanmar filmmaker, this short documentary unobtrusively observes a ...

ZOO

Directed by: Tariq Rimawi

Wandering through the worst zoo in the World, a young boy Sami is looking for his football. The l...

WILL MY PARENTS COME TO SEE ME

Directed by: Muhamed Bashiir Harawe

The central figure in Harawe's haunting short film is just a boy, but he is one of many boys in t...

THE WATER MURMURS

Directed by: Diam Chen

Chinese filmmaker Jianying Chen won the Palme D’Or at Cannes for the best short film with this po...

THE LAST DISPLACED

Directed by: Mohanad Al-Sudani

Wisam, a soldier in the Iraqi counter-terrorism service, had left his child during the war, and a...

KOORA

Directed by: Ziyad Alzahrani

Two children living in a rural neighbourhood in Riyadh sneak into their neighbour’s house while h...

A BOY WHO CANNOT SEE THE BEAUTY

Directed by: Saurav Yadav

This vivid experimental film, brimming with influences from filmmakers ranging from Terrence Mali...

WARSHA

Directed by: Dania Bdeir

A Syrian builder in Beirut decides to replace a colleague who died in an accident in a towering, ...

SNOW IN SEPTEMBER

Directed by: Lkhagvadulam Purev-Ochir

Winner of both the best short film in the Orizzonti section in Venice and best international shor...

ON MY FATHER'S GRAVE

Directed by: Jawahine Zentar

Maine and her family are accompanying her father’s coffin to the small Moroccan village where he ...

WALK UP

Directed by: Hong Sangsoo

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

UNDER THE FIG TREES

Directed by: Erige Sehiri

Inspired by a day spent at work with Fide Fdhili, the woman who would become the star of her film...

THE GRAVITY

Directed by: Cédric Ido

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

THE DAMNED DON’T CRY

Directed by: Fyzal Boulifa

After two award-winning short films at the Directors' Fortnight under his belt, Fyzal Boulifa pro...

THE BLUE CAFTAN

Directed by: Maryam Touzani

The traditional Moroccan caftan is handmade from precious fabric, every braided detail individual...

SONNE

Directed by: Kurdwin Ayub

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

SALAM

Directed by: Houda Benyamina, Anne Cissé, Mélanie Diam's

Back in 2011, Melanie Georgiades – aka Diam’s - was a huge rap star in France, having clocked up ...

SAINT OMER

Directed by: Alice Diop

In 2013, all of France was captivated by the trial of a brilliant Senegalese student who had drow...

RICEBOY SLEEPS

Directed by: Anthony Shim

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

RHINEGOLD

Directed by: Fatih Akin

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

NUCLEAR

Directed by: Oliver Stone

Director and Red Sea IFF Jury President Oliver Stone explores the possibility for the global comm...

METRONOM

Directed by: Alexandru Belc

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

LIVING

Directed by: Oliver Hermanus

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

GODARD SEUL LE CINÉMA

Directed by: Cyril Leuthy

When he died in September, aged 91, French-Swiss director Jean-Luc Godard left behind around 140 ...

FALCON LAKE

Directed by: Charlotte Le Bon

Two teenagers develop a close bond when thrown together on a family holiday in Quebec, where they...

DOUNIA AND THE PRINCESS OF ALEPPO

Directed by: Marya Zarif, André Kadi

Six-year-old Dounia (brightly voiced by Rachaf Ataya) is forced to leave her home in Aleppo after...

ASHKAL

Directed by: Youssef Chebi

Elements of film noir, the traditional police procedural and political allegory come together in ...

ALAM

Directed by: Firas Khoury

High-school rebel Tamer and his gang are mostly committed to smoking weed, messing around in clas...

AJOOMMA

Directed by: He Shuming

Widowed Mrs Lim (played by veteran Singaporean actress Hong Huifang) divides her time between cos...

A GAZA WEEKEND

Directed by: Basil Khalil

Mild-mannered English journalist Michael (Stephen Mangan) is trapped in occupied Palestinian terr...

VALLEY ROAD

Directed by: Khaled Fahd

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

QUEENS

Directed by: Yasmine Benkiran

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

KAMLA

Directed by: John Ikram Sawers

Kamla is deeply committed to her work as a psychiatrist; her patients find her both supportive an...

HOW I GOT THERE

Directed by: Zeyad ( Z ) Alhusaini

When two childhood friends – now grown up and dabbling in the illegal alcohol trade – find a cach...

ALL ROADS LEAD TO ROME

Directed by: Lara Saba

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

AL KHALLAT +

Directed by: Fahad Alammari

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

WHAT'S LOVE GOT TO DO WITH IT?

Directed by: Shekhar Kapur

How do you find lasting love in today’s world? For documentary-maker and dating app addict Zoe (L...

TRIANGLE OF SADNESS

Directed by: Ruben Östlund

Swedish satirist Ruben Ostlund joined a very exclusive club of two-time Cannes Palme d'Or winners...

THE BANSHEES OF INISHERIN

Directed by: Martin Mcdonagh

Every day for as long as anyone remembers, dairy farmer Padraic (Colin Farrell) has stopped by th...

STEWART

Directed by: Patrick Mark

Legendary racing-car driver Jackie Stewart, who was known as “the Flying Scot” during his Formula...

REBEL

Directed by: Adil El Arbi, Bilall Fallah

Belgian-Moroccan directors Adil El Arbi and Bilall Fallah bring the action movie techniques and e...

HUNT

Directed by: Lee Jung-jae

The real-life political scheming and scattergun extra-judicial executions that followed the 1979 ...

EMPIRE OF LIGHT

Directed by: Sam Mendes

Olivia Colman is extraordinary as Hilary, the smiling, efficient, middle-aged manager of a beauti...

DECISION TO LEAVE

Directed by: Park Chan-Wook

Korean master Park Chan-wook, notorious for the extremes of violence and sex in films such as Old...

BROKER

Directed by: Hirokazu Koreeda

Makeshift families have been an enduring theme in the work of Hirokazu Koreeda, arguably the grea...

BONES AND ALL

Directed by: Luca Guadagnino

“Bones and All” is a story of first love between Maren (Taylor Russell), a young woman learning h...

SLAVE

Directed by: Mansour Assad

Sakkir and his wife Latifa made a movie, but it enraged society. As a result, Sakkir struggled wi...

SATTAR

Directed by: Abdullah Al-Arak

Saad, a young man who loves professional wrestling, gets excited when EEW, a professional wrestli...

KING OF THE RING

Directed by: Mohammed Saeed Harib

Musaab is a loveable loser, with big hopes, big heart and an even bigger belly. But he also has b...

YALLAH, YALLAH, BEENAH!

Directed by: Mohammed Hammad

Away we go down the rabbit hole into a fun fantasy. A film junkie, whose house is a shrine to cin...

WHEN RED BLOOMS

Directed by: Tala Alharbi

Winner of the Red Sea's 48-hour Filmmaking Challenge, Tala Alharbi’s film ventures into the mind ...

THE KING'S POEM

Directed by: Abdulwahab Bin Shaddad

The King’s Poem, is a documentary produced by Thmanyah Company for Publishing and Distribution. I...

THE CHILD IN HIS OWN CLOSET

Directed by: Khaled Zidan

Khaled Zidan’s film was one of the winning films in the Red Sea’s 48-hour Filmmaking Challenge, w...

MATCHSTICK

Directed by: Salma Murad

Told in a style that recalls German Expressionism, Kabreet is the story of a young man pulled bet...

LAST CHANCE TO FALL IN LOVE

Directed by: Faisal Buhaishi

In this touching, poignant story, an old man finally gets the chance to reunite with his first lo...

FORWARD

Directed by: Fahad Alotaibi

An underground hacker gets a phone call from the future that warns him that something serious is ...

CASTING

Directed by: Ali Baseed

Frustrated by inquisitive people’s interference in his personal life, the character at the centre...

ZABARJAD

Directed by: Hussain Almutliq

Yehya has dropped out of college and returns to his home village in Saudi Arabia, determined to s...

REQUIEM FOR SILENCE

Directed by: Majed Z. Samman

Majed explores his struggle with an unwanted malicious entity that unexpectedly comes into his li...

LUCKY YOU'RE MINE

Directed by: Nora Abu Shusha

A modern Saudi marriage story. Ahmad and Salma are newlywed, and days after the wedding, Salma ex...

OCTOPUS

Directed by: Karim Kassem

Lebanese filmmaker Karim Kassem returned to Beirut in 2020, intending to make another film altoge...

LOST TREASURES OF ARABIA: THE ANCIENT CITY OF DADAN

Directed by: Dirk Verheye, Inti Calfat

The ancient city of Dadan, home to the Dadanite and Lihyanite kingdoms in North West Arabia is me...

KHAMSA - THE WELL OF OBLIVION

Directed by: Vynom

A little boy wakes up, finds himself at the bottom of a dark well and realises he can’t remember ...

GEOGRAPHIES OF SOLITUDE

Directed by: Jacquelyn Mills

Zoe Lucas was an art student when she first hitched a ride with a journalist to isolated Sable Is...

FRAGMENTS FROM HEAVEN

Directed by: Adnane Baraka

Two men comb the Moroccan desert, famous for its recurring meteorite falls, for these stones that...

ENYS MEN

Directed by: Mark Jenkin

A lone wildlife volunteer is stationed in the only house on Enys Men (which means Stone Island in...

AFTER THE END OF THE WORLD

Directed by: Nadim Mishlawi

Suspended between a brutal past and an uncertain future, the battered city of Beirut exists in a ...

A HUMAN POSITION

Directed by: Anders Emblem

Set in the picturesque Norwegian town of Alesund, on a fjord surrounded by mountains, Anders Embl...

THE BLACK PHARAOH, THE SAVAGE AND THE PRINCESS

Directed by: Michel Ocelot

Three tales, three places and three very different worlds, all made visually exquisite by the hug...

PUSS IN BOOTS: THE LAST WISH

Directed by: Joel Crawford

The world’s smallest swashbuckler faces the horrible realisation that although cats have nine liv...

MAIKA

Directed by: Ham Tran

When eight-year-old science enthusiast Hung (Phu Truong Lai) sees a star fall to Earth not far fr...

GUILLERMO DEL TORO'S PINOCCHIO

Directed by: Guillermo Del Toro, Mark Gustafson

Academy Award®-winning director Guillermo del Toro and award winning, stop-motion legend Mark Gus...

BIGMAN

Directed by: Camiel Schouwenaar

Twelve-year-old Dylan (Maike Cillekens) and his best friend Youssef (Anouar Kasmi) live, eat and ...

THE HEYSEL TRAGEDY

Directed by: Jan Verheyen, Jean-Philippe Leclaire

It was the tragedy that would change football forever and shake sports fans everywhere. The Heyse...

ROGUE HEROES

Directed by: Tom Shankland

How the SAS was formed becomes a ripping yarn, peppered with extra swearing, violence and pranks,...

ABOUT SASHA

Directed by: Yaël Langmann, Jérémy Mainguy

Sasha (Angele Metzger) is 17 and has recently moved cities with her family starting at a new high...

STRANGER THAN ROTTERDAM

Directed by: Lewie Kloster, Noah Kloster

Jim Jarmusch’s producer and partner Sara Driver turns out to be an engaging storyteller in her ow...

STRANGER THAN PARADISE

Directed by: Jim Jarmusch

Jim Jarmusch’s landmark indie road movie, made on a minuscule budget, won the Cannes Camera D’Or ...

WATCH OUT FOR ZOUZOU

Directed by: Hassan Al-Imam

By day, Zouzou is a serious theatre student at a prestigious Egyptian university, popular with he...

THE GRAND ILLUSION

Directed by: Jean Renoir

Orson Welles described Jean Renoir's 1937 humanist masterpiece as one of two films he would have ...

SAMBIZANGA

Directed by: Sarah Maldoror

Sarah Maldoror, a pioneer of African film-making, brings a woman’s perspective to the explosive b...

PONYO

Directed by: Hayao Miyazaki

A five-year-old boy develops a relationship with Ponyo, a young goldfish princess who longs to be...

MALCOLM X

Directed by: Spike Lee

Often misunderstood, Malcolm X was one of the leading forces of the United States' Civil Rights M...

LOVE IN KARNAK

Directed by: Ali Reda

A sparkling showcase for the trailblazing Reda Troupe of folkloric dancers, this classic film – d...

ICE CREAM IN GLYM

Directed by: Khairy Beshara

After more than 25 years, this film still comes to mind when mentioning the Egyptian superstar Am...

DILWALE DULHANIA LE JAYENGE

Directed by: Aditya Chopra

The love story of Raj and Simran is virtually synonymous with romance in Bollywood; Aditya Chopra...

BEND IT LIKE BECKHAM

Directed by: Gurinder Chadha

BILB is the story of Jess Bhambra who dreams for playing football liek her hero David Beckham whi...

BEND IT LIKE BECKHAM

Directed by: Gurinder Chadha

BILB is the story of Jess Bhambra who dreams for playing football liek her hero David Beckham whi...

THE MAN WHO COULDN'T LEAVE

Directed by: Singing Chen

Within the walls of the former Green Island prison, political detainee A-Kuen, tells the stories ...

SHORES OF LOCI

Directed by: Ellen Utrecht

Shores of Loci maximises the full potential of VR to immerse yourself into epic environments of m...

REIMAGINED VOLUME 1: NYSSA

Directed by: Julie Cavaliere

Inspired by the Brothers Grimm folktale, A Tale of the Boy Who Went Forth to Learn What Fear Was,...

ON THE MORNING YOU WAKE TO THE END OF THE WORLD

Directed by: Mike Brett, Steve Jamison, Pierre Zandrowicz, Arnaud Colinart

On a regular Saturday morning in January 2018, as Hawaiian citizens went about their daily routin...

KINGDOM OF PLANTS WITH DAVID ATTENBOROUGH

Directed by: Iona Mcewan

Welcome to a strange and dangerous world: the Kingdom of Plants. Immerse yourself in the otherwis...

ITHRA CREATIVE SOLUTIONS SHOWCASE

Directed by:

The Creative Solutions programme set up by Ithra (part of Saudi Aramco) is the first development ...

FROM THE MAIN SQUARE

Directed by: Pedro Harres

Encircling its central square, a new town emerges in all its diversity. A crossroad of stories, e...

EURYDICE

Directed by: Celine Daemen

"Eurydice, een afdaling in oneindigheid is a Virtual Reality opera inspired by the ancient myth o...

ELELE

Directed by: Sjoerd Van Acker

At times psychedelic at times meditative, Elele is a sensory and intuitive VR experience featurin...

EGGSCAPE

Directed by: German Heller

A Mixed Reality experience about a terrified little egg struggling to stay alive in a world full ...

(HI)STORY OF A PAINTING

Directed by: Gaëlle Mourre, Quentin Darras

An animated 6DoF VR series aimed at engaging young audiences with art by creating intimate, gripp...

In-Conversation with Nelly Karim

Nelly Karim, a leading actress in the Arab World, started her career off as a Prima Ballerina. Sh...

In-Conversation with Michel Ocelot

Michel Ocelot is a legend of the animation world. Born in the French Riviera, he spent his childh...

In-Conversation with Gaspar Noé

Gaspar Noe has a reputation for making films that you will watch with your hands covering your ey...

In-Conversation with Andrew Dominik

Andrew Dominik’s latest film Blonde, about the troubled life of Marilyn Monroe, has been the talk...