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- A group of women in Morocco make a living as prostitutes in a culture that is very unforgiving toward women in that profession.
- A street teenager from a dysfunctional family from a banlieue (HLMs) in Paris comes across a young dancer who turns her life upside down.
- A young Palestinian schoolteacher gives birth to her son in an Israeli prison where she fights to protect him, survive and maintain hope.
- Fatima, a strong-minded woman, is the lead masseuse of a hammam in Algiers. This is 1995 and the situation is tense in the capital. The day ahead promises to be hectic for all, and for Fatima in particular. Already, while walking to her place of work, she is the distant witness of a terrorist attack. At the hammam, Fatima should feel better, but the atmosphere proves electric in her small enclosed world, she has great difficulty in maintaining order. All the more as Meriem, a sixteen-year-old pregnant girl comes to take shelter at the hammam. And as irate brother, Mohamed, is after her to cleanse his honor in blood.
- A small Palestinian village bought 18 cows and stopped buying Israeli milk.
- A few months before the revolution in Tunisia, 18 year-old Farah has a passion for life and sings in a political rock band. Her mother, knowing the dangers of Tunisia, wants her to pursue a career as a doctor.
- Chronicles of everyday life in Iraq before and after the U.S. invasion.
- A middle-class man meets a girl from a rich family, and the two begin dating in a society where such unions are frowned upon.
- A psychological thriller that tells the story of child who, born and bred in misery and suffering, decides to take revenge on the society that has marginalized him. Set against the backdrop of an unforgiving city filled with mayhem and poverty, this bleak yet touching social drama offers sensitive insight into the lives of children on the street. Featuring outstanding performances by protagonists Rawia and Amine, this riveting tale depicts the consequences of vulnerability in a system that pits individuals against each other for survival.
- An Islamic cleric has a crisis of faith when he hears the news that his childhood idol, Michael Jackson, has died.
- Decor is about "choices" we make in life. Can one major choice haunt us to the extent of wishing to imagine or live our alternate options of such choice? Decor is an incredible journey down that rabbit hole.
- Hedi, a young man with great dreams, is struggling his way through social conventions in Tunisia. While his mother tries to decide his life for him, Hedi meets Rim and suddenly he discovers that his world goes beyond and above conventions.
- Abdelkader is a watchman and Malika is a house maid. They were just married and are madly in love. Despite money problems, they dream of moving in and starting their love life together. One day Abdelkader is going to live an incident of great violence, a humiliating experience that will ruin their destiny.
- N is coming from the desert to reach North Africa and make an illegal crossing to Europe. He steals a boat, but it soon sinks into the middle of the sea, then embarks in an imaginary surrealistic odyssey where he makes intense and fleeting encounters, and rediscovers his relationship with nature.
- Chouf: it means "look" in Arabic, but it is also the name of the watchmen in the drug cartels of Marseille. Sofiane is 20. A brilliant student, he comes back to spend his holiday in the Marseille ghetto where he was born. His brother, a dealer, gets shot before his eyes. Sofiane gives up on his studies and gets involved in the drug network, ready to avenge him. He quickly rises to the top and becomes the boss's right hand. Trapped by the system, Sofiane is dragged into a spiral of violence.
- An ordinary family whose life takes a dramatic turn. Between despair, guilt and desire for life, how to reconstruct when you face the unacceptable ?
- Set during the Algerian War of Independence. In the film, the French army surrounds a southern Algerian village where they believe an enemy is being hidden and force the inhabitants to either confront the issue or die of thirst.
- A man in Northern France and a man in the Suburbs of Tunis have their destinies mirror each other, as both the places they work at are relocated, pushing them to deal with the problems that entails.
- 2006, Baghdad is ravaged by sectarian violence. Haifa Street is the epicenter of the conflict. Ahmed gets dropped off there by a taxi on his way to his beloved Suad's home to ask for her hand for marriage, he gets shot by Salam, a sniper who's living his own personal hell on a rooftop above.
- In Gaza, two hairdressers and ten customers of various ages and backgrounds spend the day trapped in a beauty salon while Hamas police fight a gang in the street.
- "Burning Hope" is at once the story of an unlikely friendship and the portrait of a fragile country haunted by so many ghosts. Between investigation and intimate story, the movie tells the crossed destinies of two young women and a teenager in a post-revolution Tunisia, swinging between hopes and disillusionment.
- Algeria today. Past and present collide in the lives of a newly wealthy property developer, a young woman torn between the path of reason and sentiment and an ambitious neurologist impeded by wartime wrongdoings.
- A woman takes a first time journey back to her Palestine. Accompanied by Hasan, her imaginary lover, she searches for his fantasy world and finds the remnants of hope in a land exhausted by endless year
- Rana and Guy, a young married couple live in today's city of Beirut. A city forced into modernity and constantly transforming to a rhythm of an unstable environment. Rana suddenly quits her job and falls slowly into a state of lingering. Guy decides they need to leave their home and go on a road-trip that leads them to the mountains. The road becomes one of remembrance and nostalgia. A road that might bring them closer to themselves and ultimately to each other.
- Karima, a famous photographer who lived in Paris for several years, was forced to return to Algiers to attend the agony of the old patriarch against which she rebelled and was exiled. This forced return will awaken in her the scars and the ghosts of a repressed past. Once again, it is time to settle accounts. Nothing is more falsely serene than certain places she loved, more deceptive than the scents of Algiers.