Awa, a 15-year-old schoolgirl, is happily living her teenage years alongside her twin brother Adama who dreams of Europe.

In April 2006, a small boat was found drifting aimlessly along the eastern coast of Barbados. Local fishermen left the boat alone for many weeks, assuming it had something to do with drug smuggling. It later emerged that the boat contained the bodies of 11 Senegalese people who had set out to Europe four months earlier.

On Baye Fall spirituality. The "Baay Faal" are members of the sub-brotherhood dedicated to serving the Mouride marabouts.

As one robotic voice recounts nightmarish returns to Thailand, another seeks to console.

With the help of El Homossany, one of the oldest assistant directors in Egypt, Zedan, a young indie filmmaker, is making a documentary about Motawe Eweis, who has worked as an extra in about 1000 films in the Egyptian Cinema from the forties till now.

A Hazara family from Afghanistan seeks justice after the death of their daughter at Kabul University.

Driven to create amidst war and chaos, Afghan filmmakers gave birth to an extraordinary national cinema.

Laila Haidari survived child marriage and her own traumatic past to battle one of the deadliest problems in Afghanistan: heroin addiction.  As the “mother of the addicts,”  she must prevail over a crisis of addiction and a corrupt government in a country on the verge of collapse.

At the height of the USSR’s invasion of Afghanistan in 1982, 1.5 million Afghans took a long journey to the border of Iran to flee war.

Slingshot Hip Hop documents the emergence and evolution of Palestinian Hip Hop, weaving together the narratives of resilient young artists navigating life in Gaza, the West Bank, and Palestine 48.

In Alexandria, Ossama follows stories of old buildings being demolished and historical landmarks disappearing.

Hend approaches the long forgotten, but much respected, novelist Mohamed Hafez Ragab in his simple apartment where he decided to seclude himself in the eighties.

In the lively plaza before the Bibliotheca Alexandrina, Marwa and her friend meet a familiar client, Adel, and his companion.

Six different characters roaming in Alexandria along with their fears. Amr comes back to meet his father on his death bed, not sure how he can speak up and show his true feelings.

Beginning in 1952, with the resistance against the British Occupation, the film follows the rise to power of Egypt’s iconic leader Gamal Abdul Nasser.