Middle east

While Wissam fights for his love, political tensions rise and the Israeli army invades Lebanon.

This poignant and thought-provoking documentary offers a unique and deeply moving insight into the lives of Palestinian refugees in Lebanon.

A poignant tale of lost innocence, young Dib navigates the tumultuous landscape of 1950s Damascus following his father's death.

Acclaimed Lebanese director Simon El Habre paints a vivid portrait of Beirut post-Civil War, highlighting the impact of the 2020 port explosion.

A powerful film about the struggle of a naive boy with good intentions in the harsh environment of Irans drug stronghold on the Island of Hormuz.

Slavery has never ended. It has just assumed other names and ways to conceal itself.

Five years after the fall of the Taliban in Afghanistan the country's future was uncertain but buoyed by cautious optimism.

A director and his partner are forced into a long distance relationship thanks to strict European visa laws between Italy and Lebanon.

In northern Syria, an anti-hierarchical, multi-ethnic model of democracy was launched in the Rojava region under the leadership of the Kurds.

Omar, a photographer, lost his male lover in an explosion. He turns his experience of loss into an art project.

Panoptic is a letter from a daughter to her deceased father in an attempt to reconcile with Lebanon’s turbulent past.

30 years after the end of the civil war in Lebanon, over 17,000 people who disappeared are still unaccounted for. An unnamed artist searches them.

In one of Jerusalems oldest tattoo studio Jews, Christians, Muslims and atheists get their tattoos done.

Jowan Safadi, an Israeli Palestinian and musician from the Middle East, is under investigation by Israeli police for "inciting terrorism".

In, part one of this sci-fi triology, a vertical solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict has been found.

Jaffa, home of the world famous cakes, is a bustling metropolis and focus of this fascinating documentary.

The documentary SHALOM SALAM tells about the conflict in the Middle East through the eyes of Israeli and Palestinian children.

A glass van with a mounted camera drives through the streets of Beirut and explores the city from behind the glass.

Black-comedy short SOLOMON'S STONE, directed by Ramzi Maqdisi, is adapted from the novel Blue Light by Hussein Barghouty.

In a temporal twist, this movie tells the story of an intervention into the future perception of a territory’s political history.

This is both a documentary and an attempt at self-therapy for Lebanese director Bassem Fayad and his dog 'Zen'.

“When the bombs fell, the first thing we did was run away. It was not until later that we realized we had not looked back.”

A SPACE EXODUS is the first part of Larissa Sansour’s Palestinian science fiction trilogy.

Beckermann's subjects offer a dramatic range of candid opinions about Arab-Jewish relations, immigration, the intifada, religion, and the economy.

Although they have lost everything through their flight, the Jesidesses Hedil and Naam fight for a dignified life for their families.

Naima, a doctor, Amina, a graduate, and Leila, a young student, are pursuing their individual routes to an independent life when their paths cross.