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Touda is a sheikha (traditional singer and dancer) who performs in dingy bars to make ends meet. But Touda has a passion. She struggles for her art...
Everybody Loves Touda
She rejects grief as a reaction to loss. Instead confronting her misery face on and pushing herself to the brink, clinging to a flood of magic she...
About Her
Three friends are arrested after committing an accident with their car. After finishing their sentence, they become partners with the owner of a...
The Three Friends
Santa Claus tries to outrun a gang of knife-wielding youth. It's one of several vignettes of Palestinian life in Israel - in a neighborhood in...
Divine Intervention
A mother attempts to keep her family safe as war rages and a sniper lies in wait outside her home.
In Syria
Trouble follows Zaki wherever he goes, until he finds out that his father's boss needs a bodyguard for his kids and he decides to apply for the job...
Zaki Chan
An enterprising Saudi girl signs on for her school's Quran recitation competition as a way to raise the remaining funds she needs in order to buy the...
Wadjda
Hatem is a corrupt police officer, who loves his neighbor Nour, who in turn loves the prosecutor, Sherif. Hatem tries to win Nour’s attention...
Chaos, This Is?
Magdy is searching for true love, so when he finds his childhood friend Dina on Facebook he tries to get closer to her. He is afraid that she would...
X-Large
After an 82-day separation, Adam travels a rough road to be reunited with the one he loves, whatever it takes.
I Am Afraid to Forget Your Face
The film revolves around an engineer working for an oil company in Dubai. He had to return to Egypt after twenty years. He was surprised that the...
The Embassy in the Building
The Square looks at the hard realities faced day-to-day by people working to build Egypt’s new democracy. Cairo’s Tahrir Square is the...
The Square
In the south of Tunisia, two football fan brothers bump into a donkey lost in the middle of the desert on the border of Algeria. Strangely, the...
Nefta Football Club
A Third part of The Blue Elephant Saga.
The Blue Elephant: Part III
Fueled by anger after getting fired from his bank job, a lazy banker (Mohamed Saleh) joins forces with his co-worker (Amr) and their weird friend...
Monopoly (The Bank Of Luck)
Chatila and Reda are saving to pay for fake passports to get out of Athens. But when Reda loses their hard-earned cash to his dangerous drug...
To a Land Unknown
Follows the story of Laila, who finds herself in love with two people, while she suffers from fear of being alone.
I am For my Lover
A comedy about a gang leader who gets into a fight and is seriously injured, after which he is transferred to the hospital in a critical condition...
Mama's Boy
An officer balancing his marriage and police responsibilities releases a prisoner temporarily with the aim of using him to find and capture his old...
Hanafy Al Obaha
Talal Derki returns to his homeland where he gains the trust of a radical Islamist family, sharing their daily life for over two years. His camera...
Of Fathers and Sons
Mohy Al-Sharqawi is a young man whose grandfather and his uncles form a smuggling gang. As Mohy is a coward who cannot go along with them, he goes to...
The Great Fava Beans of China
These four tales explore trickery and deception, from tire thieves crashing a wedding to a man's frantic attempt to bury a secret for a deceased...
Alkhallat+
Hamam is a poor Arabic language teacher who gets sacked from a girls' elementary school for not being able to control mischievous students. He feels...
The Flirtation of Girls
Experiencing violence is commonplace for Syrian women but they do not discuss the prevalence of – often sexual – exploitation for fear of...
Under the Sky of Damascus