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...
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, ...
ASHKAL
By: Youssef Chebi
Elements of film noir, the traditional police procedural and political allegory come together in ...
THE BLUE CAFTAN
By: Maryam Touzani
The traditional Moroccan caftan is handmade from precious fabric, every braided detail individual...
UNDER THE FIG TREES
By: Erige Sehiri
Inspired by a day spent at work with Fide Fdhili, the woman who would become the star of her film...
DOUNIA AND THE PRINCESS OF ALEPPO
By: Marya Zarif
Six-year-old Dounia (brightly voiced by Rachaf Ataya) is forced to leave her home in Aleppo after...
SAINT OMER
By: Alice Diop
In 2013, all of France was captivated by the trial of a brilliant Senegalese student who had drow...
GODARD SEUL LE CINÉMA
By: Cyril Leuthy
When he died in September, aged 91, French-Swiss director Jean-Luc Godard left behind around 140 ...
ALAM
By: Firas Khoury
High-school rebel Tamer and his gang are mostly committed to smoking weed, messing around in clas...
SALAM
By: Houda Benyamina
Back in 2011, Melanie Georgiades – aka Diam’s - was a huge rap star in France, having clocked up ...
A GAZA WEEKEND
By: Basil Khalil
Mild-mannered English journalist Michael (Stephen Mangan) is trapped in occupied Palestinian terr...
AJOOMMA
By: He Shuming
Widowed Mrs Lim (played by veteran Singaporean actress Hong Huifang) divides her time between cos...