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- DirectorLino BrockaStarsHilda KoronelBembol RocoLou Salvador Jr.Júlio Madiaga, a 'provinciano', arrives in Manila to search for his beloved, Ligaya.
- DirectorMahmoud KaabourStarsFatima el GhoulMahmoud KaabourEva SayreA poetic documentary that puts a feisty Beiruti grandmother at the center of brave film exercises designed to commemorate her many worlds before they are erased by the passage of time and her eventual death. With great intimacy, the film documents the larger-than-life character Teta Fatima as she struggles to cope with the silence of her once-buzzing house and imagines what awaits her beyond death. Meanwhile, the features of her beloved violinist husband (deceased 20 years) manifest through the face of their filmmaker grandson while his previously unpublished violin improvisations weave through her world and that of the film. It brings together grandfather, grandmother and grandson in a magic-realist documentary that aims to defy a past death and a future one.
- DirectorNyk Schmalz
- DirectorAlaa MosbahStarsMahmoud AsaarRania FawzyAshiq KhanDuring last seven minutes in his life, a young man records a video for the world to know more about his life, dreams and reasons for killing himself.
- DirectorJan Xavier PacleStarsLhai BorjaPilar Grace CruzEdizon MandapA story of a young girl (Emily) who fell in love with her teacher (Mike) in college back in the Philippines and after 2 years they accidentally meet again in a school in Doha, Qatar in which both of them are already teaching and everything becomes complicated once their students and their co-teachers found out that they are already married and just got separated because their age gap and Mike's parents orders him to forget about Emily. The stroke of love hits Mike for the second time around and he falls in love with Emily again. However, when he is ready to fight for their love, Mike discovers that Emily has a dark secret. Mike then decides to go back to the Philippines and give up their love. Will Mike succeed? Or is there a chance that Mike and Emily can rekindle the perfect love they had for each other?
- DirectorMerzak AllouacheStarsNadjib OulebsirAdila BendimeradNabil AsliAfter the December riots and the first peaceful marches in Algeria, while the Arab Spring begins in Tunisia and Egypt, Fouzi wants to gather his actors to show them the unfinished editing of the film he made two years ago on the illusion of a young man who seeks to express his artistic ideas. He seeks another point of view, especially an end, and he relies on the reactions of the actors to invent a new resolution of his history, in a country suddenly raised by a wave of disputes. During the projection of the film, the debate takes place: what is the place of art creation in Algeria today? How to create something without confronting censorship? How to resist ? By making movies or walking in streets towards a new revolution? Two stories intertwine, fiction and reality? A new vision of the Algerian youth of today in full political and artistic questioning.
- DirectorWaheed Khan
- DirectorSami TliliJanuary 5, 2008, a sit-in organized by young unemployed in the city of Redeyef in the southwest of Tunisia, marked the beginning of a civil disobedience movement, which lasted six months. Their names are: Adnène, Bechir, Leila, Jemaa, Haroun, Moudhafer, Adel, they were teachers, unemployed or desperate young people. They claimed their rights to wealth, dignity and justice. It happened in the mining area, the stronghold of phosphate ore where the equation is simple and absurd: the phosphate is produced by the region that suffers the consequences (environmental and other) without benefit. 4 years later, what has remained of this human epic? Wounded souls, broken destinies, open wounds but also pride and dignity.
- DirectorAlaa MosbahStarsMohamed SalamaAbout to turn 15, Tariq longs to free himself from his controlling mother. When Tariq decides to test his manhood, he clashes with Mum yet again. This time, he makes his own decision.
- DirectorNora AlsharifStarsIbrahim AbbasKhaled al GhwairiMohammed IbrahimiA young Palestinian living in a refugee camp in 1949 struggles to escape the imminent death when him and his little brother heedlessly enter a minefield.
- DirectorHossam Abdoul-Magd
- DirectorMohamed MalasStarsGianna AanidEzat Abu-JabalHussein Al ShazliGhalia is inhabited by the soul of Zeina, a girl who drowned the day she was born. Haunted by Zeina's past life, Ghalia travels to Damascus to study acting and understand her present condition. She meets Fouad an aspiring filmmaker who becomes fascinated by Ghalia's duality. He takes her under his wing and helps her find a place to live in a Damascene house, now converted into a dorm inhabited by young Syrians from different regions. Within the confines of the house and its ancient courtyard, Fouad's love for Ghalia and Zeina blossoms while the tumultuous events in Syria start unfolding in the streets around them gradually encroaches on their idyllic isolation.
- DirectorNayla Al KhajaStarsAya Al AnsariFatema al ShroqiKatrina BernardoKhalid, an average 9-year old boy, whose behavior becomes increasingly hostile and aggressive toward his family. What's wrong with Khalid? Does he suffer from a personality disorder? If so, can it be controlled, or is it destined to escalate to a finale of tragic proportions?
- DirectorHicham AyouchStarsFarida AmroucheMohamed AroussiAlain AzerotBenjamin is a child in war against the world, he has known violence and social care homes. One day his mother goes to prison, Benjamin learns he has a father, he will now go live with him in a city in the Parisian suburbs.
- DirectorHicham ElladdaqiZineb daughter of the worker Hassan, like all girls her area wants to pursue her graduate studies in the city. However, her parents don't even have enough money to pay for a simple electricity bill. This is the story of a young girl whose dream is as simple as legitimate, yet seems almost impossible.
- DirectorRoger AllersGaëtan BrizziPaul BrizziStarsLiam NeesonSalma HayekQuvenzhané WallisExiled artist and poet Mustafa embarks on a journey home with his housekeeper and her daughter; together the trio must evade the authorities who fear that the truth in Mustafa's words will incite rebellion.
- DirectorAbderrahmane SissakoStarsIbrahim AhmedAbel JafriToulou KikiA cattle herder and his family who reside in the dunes of Timbuktu find their quiet lives -- which are typically free of the Jihadists determined to control their faith -- abruptly disturbed.
- DirectorDeniz Gamze ErgüvenStarsGünes SensoyDoga Zeynep DogusluTugba SungurogluWhen five orphan girls are seen innocently playing with boys on a beach, their scandalized conservative guardians confine them while forced marriages are arranged.
- DirectorAbdullah Al-MullaStarsRana JubaraAbdulwahid Mohammed
- DirectorMohanad YaqubiStarsYasser ArafatVanessa RedgraveA filmmaker watches an archive of films from the period of the Palestinian revolution...
- DirectorSalim Abu JabalStarsAmna Abu FodehYousef HassanAouni ShehadehAn elderly Palestinian couple has a final standoff against Israeli authorities to maintain their natural lifestyle in Roshmia; last natural valley in Haifa.
- DirectorArab NasserTarzan NasserStarsHiam AbbassVictoria BalitskaManal AwadIn Gaza, two hairdressers and ten customers of various ages and backgrounds spend the day trapped in a beauty salon while Hamas police fight a gang in the street.
- DirectorJonas Selberg AugustsénStarsMikael AndrénJosef BalokChristopher BurjanskiThree young adults on a journey. Mission: to return an old wall clock to their grandmother. A story about a small mission that becomes a great journey.
- DirectorEmin AlperStarsMehmet ÖzgürBerkay AtesTülin ÖzenAmid the intense political violence of Istanbul, Kadir is released on parole two years early on the condition that he become an informant for the police gathering terrorist informations, activities, and searching for bombs on trash cans.