program description
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.
Afghanistan, 1969, 40m
Talabgar is devised as a comedy, with an imposter trying to obtain upward mobility by marrying the emancipated Sima.
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.
Tunisia, 2021, 1h 32m
A Tunisian harvest day simmers with romance, rivalry, and quiet rebellion among young women.
Lebanon, 2022, 24m
A theatre group becomes a lifeline for Syrian refugees in Jordan.
Tunisia, 2022, 30m
A vulnerable teen in rural Tunisia inches towards a dangerous path that offers belonging.
France / Saudi Arabia / Tunisia / Qatar / Palestine, 2022, 1h 49m
Teenage love sparks a defiant political act in a divided Israeli-Palestinian community.
Tunisia / France, 2017, 1h 31m
As revolution looms, a retiring radio host's final night on air exposes a life quietly falling apart.
Egypt / USA, 2024, 15m
recurring dream pulls an Arab-American woman between Cairo and Pittsburgh.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Haiti, 2014, 11m
A portrait of Professor Alfred Avril and his devotion to Haitian machete fencing.
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.
Dominican Republic, 2022, 18m
Tormented by bloody acts, a gavillero escape in search of his freedom.
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.