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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 ...

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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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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

An arranged marriage in a cotton-farming village in Sudan. Does 15-year-old Nafisa have a choice?

Moments before his capture by police, a thief digs a grave to hide a bag of money. Released from prison years later he returns to retrieve the bag, only to find a shrine to an Unknown ...

Set in a dystopian dollhouse, Jameela, a friendly little girl wants nothing more than to fit in with the other girls in the house.

In the wake of a radioactive blast, a young and pregnant couple, Maya and Malik follow instructions from the president’s subsequent announcement— “Stay inside, seal all potential ...

This film is an experimental reflection on the automation and alienation underlying the city of Doha.

A brother guides his younger sister through inner workings of their family business: embalming dead bodies.

'1001 Days' tells the untold story of Sheherezade, the heroic female storyteller who saved her female townsfolk from the murderous fury of their king.

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 ...

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.

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.

Al Jazeera Investigations exposes how the Israel lobby influences British politics. A six-month undercover investigation reveals how Israel penetrates different levels of British democracy.

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 ...

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 ...

A dark comedy about brothers running a drug-dealing business out of their takeout pizzeria.

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 ...