My Father and Gaddafi
2025LibyaIn 1993, Mansur Rashid Kikhia, Libya's former diplomat and peaceful opponent to Qaddafi vanished in Cairo. His daughter Jihan investigates his disappearance while documenting her mother's 19-year search for truth.
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Flana
2025IraqFlana is a 2025 documentary directed by Zahraa Ghandour that investigates the unexplained disappearances of women in Iraq, particularly those known as "flana," which translates to forgotten or anonymous women.
9-Month Contract
2025GeorgiaNine months of pregnancy for 14,000 dollars? A long friendship between director and protagonist evolves into a film about surrogate motherhood and dignity in an unregulated industry in Tbilisi.
50 Meters
2025EgyptThrough a nuanced, emotionally layered father-daughter journey in the waters of a community swimming pool in Cairo, Yomna a first-time director, uses her filmmaking process as a tool to spend more time with her father, approaching him to explore her existential questions about career, parenthood and mortality.
Cuba & Alaska
2025UkraineTwo female medics in Ukraine's army, whose lives are captured via phone and body cam footage, navigate the chaos of war with bravery, humour and friendship.
Timestamp
2025UkraineTimestamp is an insight to how the war in Ukraine is affecting the daily lives of school children and teachers.
A State of Passion
2024PalestineAfter 43 horrific days working round the clock under constant bombardment in the emergency rooms of Gaza’s Al Shifa and Al Ahli hospitals, British-Palestinian reconstructive surgeon, Dr. Ghassan Abu Sittah, emerged to find himself as a face of Palestinian resistance.
Abo Zaabal 89
2024EgyptThrough the recollections of a father and his son, the story of the events of 1989 in the Abo Zaabal prison is brought to life for the first time.
To a Land Unknown
2024PalestineA Palestinian refugee living on the fringes of society in Athens gets ripped off by a smuggler and sets out to seek revenge.
Songs of Slow Burning Earth
2024UkraineReflective observations of Ukraine in wartime are interwoven with eye-witness accounts to contemplate the ultimate tragedy: the normalization of war.
From Ground Zero
2024PalestineThe combined work of 22 artists living in a besieged Gaza Strip, this omnibus film provides a contextualizing and critically important look beyond the brutal livestream. Organized by the Mashawari Fund for films and filmmakers in Gaza.
We Are Inside
2024LebanonAfter 15 years, Farah returns to Lebanon to live with her father. They reconnect through the only language he understands: poetry.
The Brink Of Dreams
2024EgyptIn a village in Egypt, a group of girls rebel by forming a street theater troupe, challenging their families and villagers with their performances.
No Other Land
2024PalestineThis film made by a Palestinian-Israeli collective, Basel and Yuval, shows the destruction of the occupied West Bank's Masafer Yatta by Israeli soldiers.
Diaries from Lebanon
2024LebanonIn 2018 Lebanon, Georges, Joumana, and Perla Joe grapple with war, politics, and revolution, sharing a dream to rebuild amid a country in turmoil.