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An Owl, A Garden And The Writer by Sara Dolatabadi
France / Iran, 2023, 1h 23m

In 2016, Sara began documenting her visits to her family’s garden outside of Tehran. Here, she spends her days with her father, Mahmoud Dowlatabadi, one of the most prolific contemporary Iranian novelists.

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dari
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Talabgar (The Suitor) by Khaleq Halil
Afghanistan, 1969, 40m

Talabgar is devised as a comedy, with an imposter trying to obtain upward mobility by marrying the emancipated Sima.

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persian +1
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Landscape Suspended by Naghmeh Abbasi
Iran, Canada, 2022, 27m

Through an interrogation of the landscape of Iran’s Shaho Mountain, Landscape Suspended reflects on the sociopolitical history and violence that surround the people who reside in the region.

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arabic
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Under The Fig Trees by Erige Sehiri
Tunisia, 2021, 1h 32m

A Tunisian harvest day simmers with romance, rivalry, and quiet rebellion among young women.

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Scenes from Home by Cynthia Sawma
Lebanon, 2022, 24m

A theatre group becomes a lifeline for Syrian refugees in Jordan.

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Road to El Kef by Ihsen Kammoun
Tunisia, 2022, 30m

A vulnerable teen in rural Tunisia inches towards a dangerous path that offers belonging.

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arabic +1
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Alam by Firas Khoury
France / Saudi Arabia / Tunisia / Qatar / Palestine, 2022, 1h 49m

Teenage love sparks a defiant political act in a divided Israeli-Palestinian community.

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Tunis By Night by Elyes Baccar
Tunisia / France, 2017, 1h 31m

As revolution looms, a retiring radio host's final night on air exposes a life quietly falling apart.

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arabic +1
english
She Sings by Lily Ekimian Ragheb, Ahmed T. Ragheb
Egypt / USA, 2024, 15m

recurring dream pulls an Arab-American woman between Cairo and Pittsburgh.

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Xaraasi Xanne (Crossing Voices) by Raphaël Grisey, Bouba Touré
France / Germany, 2022, 2h 2m

Using rare cinematic, photographic, and sound archives, Xaraasi Xanne (Crossing Voices) recounts the exemplary adventure of Somankidi Coura, an agricultural cooperative created in Mali in 1977 by western African immigrant workers living in workers’ residences in France.

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Fatma 75 by Selma Baccar
Tunisia, 1976, 1h 1m

Selma Baccar’s 1976 essay film Fatma 75 begins with a woman walking in to focus. She introduces herself as Sophonisba, an ancient Carthaginian noblewoman who, rather than submit to Roman humiliation, poisoned herself around 203 BC.

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نيركوك (Nyerkuk) by Mohamed Kordofani
Sudan, 2016, 19m

After having lost his father in an air raid Adam, a ten-year-old boy, is forced to flee to the capital city, Khartoum.

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A Bedouin Day by Nabil Maleh
Syria, 1981, 49m

A Bedouin Day captures an intimate look into the daily life of the Bedouin, a way of living often misunderstood and mistakenly blended into a single image of Arab society.

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spanish +1
english +1
Lo que los humanos ven como sangre, los jaguares ven como chicha (What Humans See as Blood Jaguars See as Chicha) by Luciana Decker Orozco
Bolivia, 2023, 29m

An experimental ethnographic study of a region in the artist’s native Bolivia that was once the centre of the Tiwanaku civilization.

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Papa Machete by Jonathan David Kane
Haiti, 2014, 11m

A portrait of Professor Alfred Avril and his devotion to Haitian machete fencing.

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1950: La Insurrección Nacionalista (The Nationalist Uprising) by José Manuel Dávila Marichal
Puerto Rico, 2017, 1h 45m

Electrifying, revealing and timely, this documentary revisits a seminal event in Puerto Rico’s history: the ten days in October 1950 when one hundred people, members of the island’s Nationalist Party, took up arms to overthrow the rule of the United States and establish Puerto Rican sovereignty.

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The Haitian Trilogy: Pariah, My Brother, I Follow You, Show Me the Route to the Springs by Esery Mondesir
Mexico, 2020, 20m

The holiday season is fast approaching in Tijuana, Mexico where Saül and his father-in-law, Mathieu are getting ready for a busy day at the street market selling recycled tennis shoes.

English