Director : Yousef Alari
Country : Palestine
Synopsis :
Driven by their filthy desires, two friends decides to manipulate a preach to cover a forbidden affair.
Isha Prayer
120 KM
Director : Waseem Khair
Country : Palestine
Synopsis :
In 2015, Palestinian artists Osama Atwa and Waseem Khair travel to Lebanon for an artistic tour in the refugee camps and in Beirut, Waseem, coming from an area under Israeli authority, and Osama, coming from an area under Palestinian authority, both arrive to the refugee camps in Lebanon despite the Israeli authority`s prohibition from travelling there after it occupied the land of Palestine in 1948, deserted it`s people, banned them from returning to their land, and banned the minority that stayed in from meeting them.
The tour of three weeks was enough for them to find themselves in a place that resembles them, and to create many questions, Confuses and contradictions.
They both can`t realize how a small land area of Lebanese land becomes home to them.
After finishing the tour they go back to Palestine, and a new journey begins, facing trials and Israeli Interrogation rooms because of a visit not further than 120 km between two countries.
Their artistic tour costs them 20 months in Israeli imprisonment.
Beirut After 40
Director : Anthony Merchak
Country : Lebanon
Synopsis :
The capital Beirut that is known for being the second city in the world that does not sleep after New York; New York for work and Beirut for its night life
On the 4th of August also, Beirut scored a second place but this time for the second biggest non-nuclear explosion in the world.
On that day at 6:07 pm everything changed in Beirut’s history and Anthony’s life, as he was few meters from the explosion. Anthony describe in this documentary his personal experience accompanied with real footage that will be shown for the first time.
ONCE UPON A PRINCESS
Director : Safa Ghali
Country : Tunisia
Synopsis :
AMIRA wants to change social norms and stereotypes regarding the
representation of femininity and gender roles in a patriarchal society
La Terre est à Nous
Director ; Raoua Hanzouli
Country : Tunisia
Synopsis :
Mohamed est un sdf artiste et non voyant. Sa vie est une mélodie de rêve et de passion. Le film est un voyage vers cet univers à travers les pas vagabond de Mohamed et sa voix toujours libre.
Basiony
Director : Mohamed Sadek El-Shaer
Country : Egypt
Synopsis :
A guy is looking for a way to commit suicide in the most impossible scenario. He becomes obsessed with the idea of taking a leap down the Flat Earth’s end. So, he takes (Basiony), the teddy bear with him along the journey. He encounters situations that do not prove nor deny the truth of his journey. Not until he reaches his salvation. With losing his teddy bear, he’s taken aback and growing apathetic.
As I ride with no horse
Director: Emad Aleebrahim Dehkordi
Country: Iran
Synopsis :
After a long and epic battle, the Persian queen and commander of her armies finds herself alone in the desert awaiting death; the one last battle she has to face.
PI
Director : Laith Al Ramahi
Country : Palestine
Synopsis :
This movie is about a programmer named Sanad, he’s a normal guy who lives a normal dull life and discovers by chance that one of the games he used to play when he was little is actually a tool to discover the past, the present and the future. Sanad is surprises by all this and tries to use this new thing in a good way, but what will he do when he sees the end of the world we live in, and realises that he’s the reason of the world ending, him and the company who are trying to recruit him for a long time? Will he stop himself from changing the world, or will he fulfil his destiny despite everything?
Fi Béli ? – I Know
Director : Ali Zrelli
Country : Tunisia
Synopsis :
A lot leaves us in our lives and only the beautiful memories remain … What if we always wanted them around?
THE RED MOUNTAIN
Director : Kamel Harb
Country : Lebanon
Synopsis :
A dream of escaping the cruel reality they’re living in boarding school,takes the boys far with their thoughts and plans.Only one obstacle is threatening them,a mountain that stands high in the face of their will.