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1001 Days
1001 Days
'1001 Days' tells the untold story of Sheherezade, the heroic female storyteller who saved her female townsfolk from the murderous fury of their king.
Al-Sit
Al-Sit
An arranged marriage in a cotton-farming village in Sudan. Does 15-year-old Nafisa have a choice?
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Alqatt
Alqatt
There are few things that do not get lost, no matter how old we are. In the memory of adults there is a childhood and in the beginning of the forest there is a tree and in the history ...
Beit Byoot
Beit Byoot
Set in a dystopian dollhouse, Jameela, a friendly little girl wants nothing more than to fit in with the other girls in the house.
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Between Revolutions
Between Revolutions
A semi-fictional correspondence between two women: one goes to Iran in 1979 to topple the Shah; the other experiences the onerous years of Ceaușescu’s Romania. Their biographies run in ...
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Calling of the Congress
Calling of the Congress
A traveller maintains her faith in a long forgotten ritual. She has searched and found the missing article to complete the ceremony for the Calling of the Congress.
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Chasing the Dazzling Light
Chasing the Dazzling Light
Director Yaser Kassab followed in his father’s footsteps by emigrating as a young man from Syria to Europe, and like his father he also had the ambition to become a filmmaker. Now they ...
Falling Leaves
Falling Leaves
A brother guides his younger sister through inner workings of their family business: embalming dead bodies.
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Hind’s Dream
Hind’s Dream
In a tangled landscape of dream and reality, Hind recounts a strange dream about wandering alone in the desert, meeting an old oracle, and glimpsing a future desert city.
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In the Future, They Ate from the Finest Porcelain
In the Future, They Ate from the Finest Porcelain
In the Future They Ate From the Finest Porcelain resides in the cross-section between sci-fi, archaeology and politics. Combining live motion, archival images and CGI, the film explores ...
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Kashta
Kashta
Out in the beautiful quiet of the desert, a man teaches his young sons how to track and hunt. Frustration leads to an apparently harmless struggle between the two brothers – but their ...
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Ladder to Damascus
Ladder to Damascus
A young aspiring actress in Syria discovers she has been inhabited by the soul of a woman who died on the day she was born.
Makh’bz
Makh’bz
The repetitive actions of men and machines become a dance of grace and beauty in ‘Makh’bz’ as Aisha Al Muhannadi transforms the making of bread in Madinat Khalifa into a mesmerising ...
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May in the Summer
May in the Summer
A bride-to-be is forced to reevaluate her life when she reunites with her family in Jordan and finds herself confronted with the aftermath of her parents’ divorce.
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Mediterranea
Mediterranea
Ayiva recently left his home in Burkina Faso in search of a way to provide for his sister and his daughter. He takes advantage of his position in an illegal smuggling operation to get ...
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October 7
October 7
Hamas’s incursion into Israel on October 7 transformed the politics of the Middle East. Al Jazeera’s Investigative Unit (I-Unit) has carried out a forensic analysis of the events of ...
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Places of the Soul
Places of the Soul
The death of the film director’s mother hit her very hard. She was just a child when this happened, and memories fade with the passage of time. Thus, the home videos that the most ...
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Rite of Passage
Rite of Passage
A mix of stop motion and live action, a young girl faces a creature and risks death in the desert to prove herself an adult in a rite of passage ritual.
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Suddenly TV
Suddenly TV
Khartoum: Spring 2019. Mass demonstrations have been underway for a month now, protesting against the military government. Following the welcome end to the brutal rule of Omar ...
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The 60’s
The 60’s
While the sixties of the world were associated with civil struggle movements and the rejection of the Vietnam War, the sixties decade in the Arab countries was linked to the dominance ...
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The Garbage Helicopter
The Garbage Helicopter
Somewhere in Sweden, a gigantic dumpster breaks free from a heavy chain suspended underneath a big helicopter. The dumpster hits the ground with a formidable crash and the garbage ...