MEDITERRANEAN FEVER
MEDITERRANEAN FEVER Palestine, Germany, France, Cyprus and Qatar I 2022 I Arabic dialogue with Swedish subtitles l 108 minSynopsis Waleed (40) lives in Haifa with his wife and children and dreams of a writing career while suffering from chronic depression. He...
FIRAS FITS IN
FIRAS FITS IN Qatar, Jordan, Lebanon, Canada I 2022 I Arabic dialogue with English subtitles l 12 minSynopsis Firas, a Jordanian-Lebanese nine-year-old visits Jordan for the first time in nine years to renew his passport. After constantly feeling like a stranger...
RIVERBED
RIVERBED Lebanon I 2022 I Arabic dialogue with English subtitles l 80 minSynopsis Riverbed tells the story of Salma and her returning daughter Thuraya, andtheir attempt to preserve, maintain and reconstruct their lives with and against each other. Salma...
HEROIC BODIES
HEROIC BODIES Sudan I 2022 I Arabic dialogue with English subtitles l 95 minSynopsis Sudanese women were robbed of the rights to their own bodies throughout the modern ages enduring brutal and unfathomable forms of oppression. “Heroic Bodies” explore the various...
QUEENS
QUEENS France, Belgium, Morocco, Qatar, Saudi Arabia I 2022 I Arabic dialogue with English subtitles l 85 minSynopsis Casablanca, Morocco. A trio of women with the police on their tail embarks on a long escape that takes them across the rugged red terrain and...
A SUMMER IN BOUJAD
A SUMMER IN BOUJAD Morocco, France, Belgium I 2022 I Arabic dialogue with English subtitles l 80 minSynopsis Seven years after the death of his mother, Karim, thirteen years old, has left Paris to go back to Morocco with his father Messaoud, who has remarried....
VALLEY ROAD
VALLEY ROAD Saudi Arabia I 2022 I Arabic dialogue with English subtitles l 110 minSynopsis In the late ’90s, in the mountains of Saudi Arabia, in Alwadi village, A disabled kid (Ali) goes on a road trip into the valley with his father (Nassir), who thinks that...
SEARCHING FOR..
SEARCHING FOR THREE THOUSAND EGYPTIAN POUND Egypt I 2022 I Arabic dialogue with English subtitles l 20 minSynopsis After finding out that his favorite artist is having a concert in his hometown Cairo, A young boy is hellbent on attending but he can’t afford to...
THE LAST QUEEN
THE LAST QUEEN Algeria, France, Taiwan, Qatar, Saudi Arabia I 2022 I Arabic dialogue with English subtitles l 113 minSynopsis Algeria, 1516. The pirate Aruj Barbarossa frees Algiers from the tyranny of the Spanish and seizes power over the kingdom. Rumor has it...
HYPHEN
HYPHEN Lebanon I 2022 I Arabic dialogue with English subtitles l 95 minSynopsis When Nicole reveals to her childhood friend and cousin, Reine, that she’s been addicted to heroin since she was 13, they decide to document Nicole’s rehab journey. Hyphen follows the...
NEZOUH
NEZOUH UK, Syria, France I 2022 I Arabic dialogue with English subtitles l 104 minSynopsis The film takes place during the Syrian conflict, when a missile destroys the ceiling of the house of -14year-old Zeina. As a result, she sleeps for the first time under...
APY BETWEEN LIFE AND DEATH
APY BETWEEN LIFE AND DEATH Sweden I 2022 I Swedish dialogue with English subtitles l 63 minSynopsis This is a testimony that describes how during 19 days of respiratory care, documentary filmmaker Mehdi Saleki fought for his life against the coronavirus. From...
ALHAMOUR H.A
ALHAMOUR H.A Saudi Arabia I 2022 I Arabic dialogue with English subtitles l 120 minSynopsis HAMOUR H.A is a true rag-to-riches story inspired by true events. Set in the early 2000s, the film follows Hamed, a security guard looking for a way to make a living in a...
THREE PROMISES
THREE PROMISES Palestine, USA I 2022 I Arabic dialogue with English subtitles l 60 minSynopsis Through the director’s mother’s lens we explore the dual stories of a mother navigating the impossible choice of whether to take her family away from home amidst...
ALL ROADS LEAD..
ALL ROADS LEAD TO ROME Lebanon I 2022 I Arabic dialogue with English subtitles l 88 minSynopsis Hadi is a famous Lebanese actor in his thirties. He is experimenting an existential crisis. His problems are related to the mediocrity in filmmaking, to the...
RAVEN SONG
RAVEN SONG Saudi Arabia I 2022 I Arabic dialogue with English subtitles l 109 minSynopsis Nasser, an unexceptional washout, is diagnosed with a brain tumor when he meets an enigmatic and peculiar young woman. Infatuated by her and sick of being a failure, he...
HANGING GARDENS
HANGING GARDENS Iraq, Palestine, Egypt, United Kingdom, Saudi Arabia I 2022 I Arabic dialogue with English subtitles l 107 minSynopsis When a young Iraqi rubbish picker rescues an American sex doll from the Baghdad dumps, he crosses into a perilous red zone,...
SHORTS FROM SAUDI
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MOEZ THE END..
MOEZ THE END OF THE TUNNEL Tunisia I 2022 I Arabic dialogue with English subtitles l 85 minSynopsis Moez, a young man like there can be many. He is 25 years old, he lives with his mother and his little sister in a disreputable district of Tunis. Moez...
SHORT FILM PACKAGE 1
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UNDER THE FIG TREES
UNDER THE FIG TREES Tunisia, France, Switzerland, Germany, Qatar I 2022 I Arabic dialogue with English subtitles l 92 minSynopsis Taking place over the course of a day, UNDER THE FIG TREES presents an intergenerational dialogue between a group of teens and older...
SHORT FILM PACKAGE 2
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SHORT FILM PACKAGE 3
PACKAGE 3 Screening: May 2, 21:30 Panora 2 Buy your ticket here >>
19B
19B Egypt I 2022 I Arabic dialogue with English subtitles l 90 minSynopsis In a dilapidated villa, lives an old guard who watches over an abandoned house. The house he considers his home sanctuary is all of a sudden threatened by a young park attendant, leaving...