Zaffan is becoming a woman – but is she really another kind of animal? One with teeth and claws?

A Palestinian school teacher struggles to reconcile his risky commitment to political resistance with his emotional support for a student and the chance of a new romantic relationship with a volunteer worker.

An elderly Uzbek couple are forced by their children to accept unwanted life changes in this poetic portrayal of a family divided by the times.

A young Algerian student in France gains an understanding of his true identity when he takes a job at a Muslim funeral home.

Fred is part of a generation that can’t seem to leave home. When he meets bright, go-ahead Roxana, he thinks he has found a new lease of life – but how wrong can he be?

A Pakistani widow becomes an overnight sensation when her unvarnished opinions leak on to social media.

After spending years in Belgium, a young Congolese man returns to his birthplace of Kinshasa to confront the intricacies of his family and culture.

A young woman in a remote village embarks on a perilous journey after the arrival of the new teacher who also happens to be a painter.

In the heart of Riyadh, Fahad Algadaani's gripping journey from a struggling delivery man to the depths of a city's underworld, as he battles to save his father amidst desperation and opportunity.

After the sudden death of her husband, Nawal must save her daughter and home, in a society where having a son is a game changer.

Real horror doesn’t come from fantasy. For Maryam and her mother, trapped by patriarchal property laws, this madness is everyday life.

An Iraqi farmer must hide Saddam Hussein from family, friends and 150,000 American soldiers.

A struggle by Japanese villagers to protect their environment shows how seemingly quiet animals – even human ones – can turn savage.

From visionary director Tarsem Singh comes a modern-day Romeo and Juliet inspired by true events and told in a Punjabi folk style.

Dana becomes a local hate figure when she turns her father’s house on the quiet island of Dalma into a holiday rental.

Can Rafik really fly? He thinks so. His son wants to believe it – and this teasing, magical film may leave us wondering.

Art and life merge in a thrilling performance as tensions behind the scenes in an innovative dance troupe.

In the wild, on the way to bury their father, two estranged brothers reunite after an extended separation. This day compels them to reach a joint decision but not before confronting the past.

A goddess made up of tech junk walks the mountains of plastics and poisons, asking when will the swollen capitalist economies take responsibility.

Far from his own homeland, a Kurdish refugee lives in his suitcase.

There was always a missing piece, until you, found you.

Salma begins her attempt to cross into her country illegally. On her journey, she encounters many obstacles to self-conflict in order to make a fateful decision between rescuing passers-by or continuing her journey and transporting her brother's body.

After arriving at a police station to report a crime, Mzu helps an elderly man at the back of the line to the chagrin of the people ahead and a stifling bureaucratic system.

The story of her grandmother's old suitcase moves Hazal to understand her kurdish families past and carry on the legacy.

A young boy goes to a cursed brook and witnesses something that will seal his fate.

A six-year-old Pakistani girl embarks on a mission to save her beloved pet goat from being eaten on the Muslim holiday of Eid al-Azha, only to learn the meaning of sacrifice.

The courier Aziz needs money to save his wife. She is in a hospital clinging to life. Aziz has to make a deal with the devil getting money for her.

She buttoned up her shirt, lied to her parents and silenced her phone. Nour plotted carefully for her date, but anything can go wrong on a ride through an anxious Cairo by night.

After Saeed discovers that his sister Salma must return to her mother’s house, he decides to run away hoping to find a better place.

The audition process for an exploitative game show becomes the latest test of a longsuffering mother’s fortitude and tenacity in Sonny Calvento’s bold satire.

On a sunny day, 11-year-old Firas resists his father's gender-based expectations during a bird-hunting trip in the Lebanese mountainside.

Iranian cinema censors are confused by new regulations about what is acceptable behavior to show on screen in this hilarious black comedy.

A young pregnant woman grapples with an uncertain future as her boyfriend vanishes, leaving her searching for answers amid city turmoil.

Facing their imminent separation, Elias and Christiane dive into their memories for one final goodbye.

Amidst the harsh realities of a displacement camp in a post-disaster dystopian world, Zamda's search for her missing husband unveils the hidden struggles and emotional upheavals of those who have been displaced.

Set in Saudi Arabia, a gutsy young woman sneaks off for a date only to butt heads with her chaperoning chauffeur.

Mysterious Pa Kong-Kong lives alone in a gloomy market in the suburbs of Dakar. Binta, a curious and courageous girl, decides to confront him in the middle of the night.

Three connected generations of lost Ghanaian women fight to find meaning from both their lives and that of their young African nation, as they awaken in a strange ancestral land.

Beirut, Lebanon. Hassan is assembling wooden boards. His wife is dead. He is building her coffin. Tamara and Rami, the children, in their twenties, are helping him as best they can to fulfill her last wish: to be buried in her childhood village, abandoned for more than 20 years.

A 16-year-old teenager is watching an adult film when accidentally the audio is connected to his mother’s car Bluetooth.

Actor Anna Kendrick makes her stunning directorial debut with a tense thriller based on the real-life case of serial killer and dating show contestant Rodney Alcala.

In a village outside Beirut, a mechanic receives many visitors who need to repair their cars. He soon realizes that he not only has to fix their cars, but has to fix them as well.

A callow young scientist at a conference in the Swiss Alps finds he is drawn into a parallel world of multiple dimensions, false memories and nightmarish experiments.

On a handmade set recreating her Casablanca neighborhood, a young Moroccan filmmaker enlists family and friends to help solve the troubling mysteries of her childhood.

Cattle veterinarian Youssef starts to reconsider his hatred for wolves when he meets a woman who is a keen environmentalist. Meanwhile, his friend’s daughter has inexplicably disappeared.

Two bank tellers conspire to rob their employer not to become rich, but in a romantic bid to escape the dreariness of their lives

Three very different women deal with their respective circumstances in this warmly involving ronde of life stories

A woman wrestles with persistent memories of the traumatic race riots that tore apart Kuala Lumpur when she was a child, scarring her for life.

Korean action is at its kinetic best in this buddy action comedy, set in the ‘80s, about a bureaucrat who arrives in Beirut to rescue a kidnapped ambassador. He needs help – and he has little choice about where to get it

Mother is sitting on a couch in a weirdly cluttered furniture store and refuses to move. Family dysfunction meets soft furnishings in this crazy comedy.

In a meticulously imagined and constructed future world, two detectives – one human, one a cyborg – uncover a plot to provoke war between people and their robots

Two brides are accidentally swapped on a packed Indian train leading to laughter, tears and an explosion of girl power.

Melodrama and martial arts clash on a speeding train in the most gruesome action movie of the year.

Two small-time criminals try to do the right thing when they find themselves with a corpse on their hands.

There are some unpleasant things a Korean gang enforcer just has to do. Yeon-gyu ends up doing all of them.

A powerhouse criminal barrister faces tough ethical decisions at home and in the courtroom that challenge her hard-won ability to stay in control.

The daughter of a mafia boss, wants to get out of the criminal underworld without losing her family. But the Mob is also her family - for life.

Irish writer Samuel Beckett tussles with his greatest demon – himself – in this exploration of a creative, quietly tormented life.

As she nears the end of her pregnancy, Itto and her in-laws find their lives turned upside down by a supernatural event.

A football team set up in Sweden for Kurdish refugees rockets up the league to become one of the country’s top teams – and a beacon of hope for Kurds everywhere.

Three legendary but aging figures of Italian crime families search for redemption in a world that has grown crueler and crueler

This martial arts action thriller sees a detective with a heart defect have 24 hours to solve a mass murder case in near future Indonesia

Maryam’s western doctor is aghast when she takes her disturbed son to a traditional healer for exorcism.

An assassin goes on the run with the woman he is supposed to kill in this nail-biting thriller.

While discreetly sneaking out for a date, Sarah becomes stranded amidst Riyadh's desert dunes. She finds herself escaping the vengeance of a rabid camel after accidentally causing harm to its newborn.

An insight into the much-honored musician Khaled Al-Sheikh and his lifelong struggle to stay true to his art.

A magical djinn finds himself fascinated by a human family who live in the same house, but can’t see him. Based on Ibraheem Abbas’s popular novel.

A camel jockey and his beloved animal go on the run through the Saudi desert in this gripping survival adventure.

A family divided when two daughters join Daesh tries to understand what happened in this compelling mix of documentary and fiction.

A notorious retired football player is forced to cooperate with his daughter, who hates him, to restore his glory through social media, a thorny adventure that the world is not prepared for.

Nadine Labaki and the formidable Fanny Ardant are a dream team in this intimate story of an Egyptian woman trying to reconcile with her eccentric mother.

Trying to understand the failed relationships and inappropriate women in his life, a prominent plastic surgeon turns to a psychiatrist for help.

Origin chronicles the remarkable work of Pulitzer Prize winning author Isabel Wilkerson on race and caste.

Returning to see his family and city of his birth, Mounir struggles to recover a sense of his Arab identity.

Once Jacques Chirac wins the French presidency, his wife is expected to fade from public view. Bernadette has other ideas.

Legendary action director John Woo employs Joel Kinnaman to play a voiceless man hellbent on revenge.

Priscilla Presley was just 14 when rock and roll superstar Elvis chose her as his girlfriend and future wife; this is the story of her strange, stormy life in the gilded prison of fame.

Formula One hero Enzo Ferrari is in a race against time to rescue the company he has created, his racing reputation and the ruins of his marriage.

Exciting, inspiring and yet almost unknown: a documentary team finds out why the first Women’s World Cup has been written out of history

For Ginger and the flock, all is at stake when the dangers of the human world come home to roost; they’ll stop at nothing even if it means putting their own hard-won freedom at risk to save chicken-kind – this time, they’re breaking in!

Aliyah a single mother who works as an Uber driver, faces a range of societal obstacles during her day job.

Two Saudi Policemen Marwan and Nasser face the last members of ISIS in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.

When two friends decide to try out something new their lives takes an unexpected turn and panicking is the last thing they need.

A teenager experienced a traumatic event that profoundly altered both her behavior and her perspective on life.

After losing his doll, Zaatar, Khair discovers a magical secret behind the loss of his doll friend.

Two children, Layali and Shadi, navigate the harsh realities of war and its profound impact on their lives.

After years of suppressing her dream, a passionate screenwriter (Alia) decides to film a story she wrote and turn it into a film, surprisingly she will find herself confronting her inner fears, which are embodied as a reality in front of her in every scene of the film.

After being away from a currency headquarters for months, Battal begins his work, only to find himself in conflict with a modern work environment and a condition that cannot be easily achieved.

In the shallow waters of the Red Sea, a happy-go-lucky fish is forced to set out on a journey to save the sea creatures from the soulless monster before it kills all life underwater.

Hayat, as a theater actress, dreams of practicing her work with creativity, but she finds herself facing a challenge to break free from the constraints she imposed on herself in a moment of weakness in the face of her fears of societal beliefs and public opinions. How will Hayat overcome her limitations?

An elderly woman feels lonely after her family and friends left Old Town Jeddah when an incident in the kitchen forces her to communicate with her foreign neighbors after her entire house is flooded with Saleeg.

A candidate with a health condition shows up in a job interview, then it turns to a debate about the meaning of happiness from each person’s perspective.

After a long night out, Samer's efforts to lay down and sleep gets repeatedly interrupted by his family.

Abood, a designer who works in a creative advertising agency. One time he wakes up to find himself imprisoned in a difficult situation that affects his career.

The young boy Ali seeks the folk singer to record him with his father’s tape recorder. When the singer loses his voice after laryngeal surgery. Ali meets the singer with the last recording of his voice.

Four years after his first trip to Sweden, Mohsen revisits his friend Hayder, who yearns for their homeland (Saudi Arabia). Together, they navigate Hayder's last winter, deepening their bond amidst the backdrop of longing and change.

A short documentary film that highlights camel culture in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.

A simple employee with innocent dreams works in a detour for a project belonging to a company in a remote area. The area's remoteness affects his life and takes all his dreams away from him.

On a full moon night in Beirut, Najwa and Mansour follow the trail of smugglers to join a woman on the other side of the sea.

Latif Al Ani photographed Iraq for 30 years before multiple wars arose. At the age of 86, he travels through his devastated country in search of the people and places he photographed at the time, sharing his pictures with Iraqis who today cannot imagine that the world in the photographs was real.

Challenging but deeply rewarding, this story of a detached young man obliged to step up to life when his sister-in-law dies unfolds like a dream journey through the labyrinth that is his existential crisis

A cinematic odyssey that takes us into one of the toughest slums in the world, where undocumented people are trying to survive in a host state that is itself teetering on the edge of collapse

Summer 1955. Kamal, a 11 year-old boy of the Medina of Fez, is experiencing the last months before Morocco’s independence. With Aïcha and her fellow students of the Qaraouiyine university, he discovers and takes part in the fight for freedom.

From the heart of Libya's revolution to the aftermath of its wars, a young cameraman captures a decade of hope, loss, and resilience, grappling with personal traumas and a nation's quest for peace.

Three goats, students of the Martial school that trains self-defense to little animals, take on the big bad wolf in this fun animation for kids

Close your eyes and feed your head as you embark on this year’s most marvelous voyage through the extravagant animated world of Sirocco.

Displaced and burdened by his past, Saleem’s life takes a turn when he unexpectedly discovers a treasure map that leads him on a life-changing adventure. Anchored in hope, he sets out to uncover a treasure he never knew he needed.

The adventurous life of some talented theater actors who play their roles in real situations in front of real people in order to make money

Ten year old Aisha wants to fish for a living, but her mother thinks that fishing should be left to men. Aisha's life transforms when fisherman Hassan decides to teach her how to fish.

A drunken get-together turns into a crime scene as two former schoolmates pretend to have kidnapped their sleeping companion and demand a ransom from his rich family.

The adventurous life of some talented theater actors who play their roles in real situations in front of real people in order to make money

South Africa Eats is a docu-series that aims to bring forth the story of what South Africa is, by eating its food, producing flavours that have leapt over and across barriers.

A young Kiwi-Muslim songwriter forms a dangerous friendship with the security intelligence agent sent to spy on him, and puts his whole community at risk to fulfil his dreams.

This film is now considered one of the most important musical films in the history of Arab cinema, as it brings together, for the first time on the big screen, Farid Al-Atrash and his sister Asmahan.

Jacques Demy’s vintage story of twin girls leaping at life – a tribute to the Hollywood musicals he loved in his own youth – is as refreshing and delightful as the day it was made.

The director of Brazil and Twelve Monkeys tries – and fails – to make his dream project, a modern version of the romantic classic Don Quixote.

Director Terry Gilliam is finally able to realise his Don Quixote project but, after 30 years of anticipation, finds he is tortured by self-doubt and the burden of expectation.

Award-winning director Fatih Akin takes us on an infectiously enthusiastic tour through Istanbul’s melting pot of musical cultures.

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