Documentary Films
Transparent World
Georgia | 80m | 2018
Transparent World
Life is not only about giving birth to a child, it is about the responsibility that new life brings into our existence, that the child will be brought up as a legitimate person. Right-minded parents will gracefully share the duty of being patient and loyal to their child.
Maelstrom
Netherlands | 45m | 2018
Maelstrom
Maelstrom is a Documentary of found footage composed out of hundreds of Syrian amateur videos. The film is inspired by the true story of a young Syrian refugee who, in search of a new home, tried to swim from Calais to England. During this fatal journey, memories of his past life haunt the swimmer’s mind.
The Olden Heralds
Spain | 23m | 2018
The Olden Heralds
At almost 90 years old, Tatá and Esperanza witness the election of the first Cuban president and for the first time in a century the president elect doesn’t have the “Castro” surname. Secluded on an islet of vegetation, like two lighthouses from a remote era, they witness the end of a political cycle between the rustle of fire and the blizzards of storms.
Michel's Flight
Spain | 19m | 2018
Michel's Flight
This is the history of Michael. Standing powerfully in the face of his disability, and through his sensitivity, creativity, and wonderful sense of humour. He shows us that we all can be the best at something.
Off Sides
Czech Republic | 75m | 2019
Off Sides
A group of teenage ice hockey players from the Czech town of Náchod set off to Morocco onto, what was to become the most interesting training camp of their careers. They came here not only to play ice hockey, but also to get to know the locals and their way of life.
Khartoum Offside
Sudan | 75m | 2019
Khartoum Offside
A group of young women in Khartoum are determined to play football professionally, in defiance of the ban imposed by Sudan’s Islamic Military government. Their battle to get officially recognized as Sudan’s National Women's team is fearless and courageous.
The tank and the olive tree, another story of Palestine
France | 101m | 2019
The tank and the olive tree, another story of Palestine
The history of Palestine, from its beginnings up until today, far from what the media calls the Israelian-Palestinian conflict. International experts, historians, UN diplomats, international law experts, and also accounts from ordinary people...
Gaza
Ireland, Palestine | 92m | 2019
Gaza
A portrait of how people attempt to lead meaningful lives against the rubble of perennial conflict. A Representation that goes beyond the reach of television news reports, to reveal a world rich with eloquent and resilient characters.
The Good Terrorist
Netherlands | 78m | 2019
The Good Terrorist
Renowned filmmaker Robert Oey investigates the world of terrorism and questions the attitude of the West regarding its own breed of home-grown radicalism. As young men, Jason Walters and Nouredine El Fahtniare, were members of the extremist Dutch Hofstadgroep, a group held responsible for murder...
Western Arabs
Denmark, Netherlands | 77m | 2019
Western Arabs
Omar Shargawi wants to understand his father better and he often casts his father’s character in his films to get closer to him. “Western Arabs” closely intertwines documentary material and scenes from these feature films.
Sumerce
United Kingdom, Colombia | 83m | 2019
Sumerce
In Rural Colombia, veteran activist Don Eduardo, rising political leader César Pachón, and agricultural educator Rosita fight their government's neoliberal decision that allows companies to carve out their rural rights and their access to fresh water.
Q's Barbershop
Denmark | 60m | 2019
Q's Barbershop
By the square of Denmark’s largest social housing estate, lies Q’s Barbershop: red walls, green plants, a ventilator and its hairdresser Qasim. The film is a charming portrait of a hairdresser who creates razor-sharp looks, while providing everyday life advice to his equally charismatic customers, each with their own story to tell.
Portraits of my Mother
Germany, Mexico, USA | 11m | 2019
Portraits of my Mother
This is a documentary about my mother and the moment that changed her life. Through her narration, my mother confesses to me what she remembers from the moment she was raped as a child. By painfully recalling this traumatic event, she reflects on the sexual abuse of children and the scars that these events leave in a person's life.
El Inferno / Hell
Spain | 23m | 2019
El Inferno / Hell
Chennu, as a street kid, committed his first crime when he was 15 years old. He enters “hell”, a hopeless prison in Freetown. Chennu got out after four years, but now he wants to go back in order to help his friends.
Borderline
France,Palestine | 52m | 2020
Borderline
Borderline takes us on to meet Ivan, Ranim, Taleen, Sari and Abu Sofiane through an immersion in the various places they live in, under occupation.
This Rain Will Never Stop
Ukraine, Germany, Iraq, Syria | 102m | 2020
This Rain Will Never Stop
This Rain Will Never Stop takes the audience on a powerful, visually arresting journey through humanity’s endless cycle of war and peace. The film follows 20-year-old Andriy Suleyman as he tries to secure a sustainable future while navigating the human toll of armed conflict.
The Art Of Dissent
USA | 105m | 2020
The Art Of Dissent
"The Art of Dissent" celebrates the power of artistic engagement in Czechoslovakia before and after the 1968 Soviet-led invasion. The documentary’s main protagonists – Václav Havel, banned singer Marta Kubišová, and the underground rock group the Plastic People of the Universe
Fadia's Tree
United Kingdom, Palestine | 82m | 2021
Fadia's Tree
While millions of birds migrate freely in the skies, Fadia, a Palestinian refugee in Lebanon, is stranded by history on the wrong side of the border, yearning for the ancestral homeland she is denied...
Only the Ocean Between Us
Jordan, Peru | 87m | 2021
Only the Ocean Between Us
Two Syrian directors in Za’atari Refugee Camp, Jordan and two Indigenous Shipibo-Konibo directors in Lima, Peru correspond through film diaries in a cross-border project from Another Kind of Girl Collective.
Memory is a Dying Horse
Canada | 28m | 2021
Memory is a Dying Horse
Trying to freeze time is an illusion. Whatever we do, life unfolds in one direction. Memory is a dying horse is yet another desperate attempt to challenge the irreversibility of time.
A Day's Work
Germany, Myanmar | 13m | 2021
A Day's Work
A DAY’S WORK is both a short documentary and a film installation. Without dialogue, contrasting perspectives are shown on split screens, sometimes alternating, sometimes simultaneous. Distant, slow and well-composed aerial shots show an otherwise unattainable perspective...
One Second Forever
Czech Republic | 84m | 2021
One Second Forever
Vít Klusák's new documentary One Second Forever is based on a simple and even more effective reasoning: None of us would like to be the one who caused a serious traffic accident. None of us would want to experience first-hand the moments approaching - and at the same time completely useless death.
Turn Your Body to the Sun
Netherlands | 93m | 2021
Turn Your Body to the Sun
The incredible life story of a Soviet soldier who was captured by the Nazis during WWII. His daughter Sana searches the past to understand her silent father.
Guardian of the Worlds
Qatar, France, Tunisia | 90m | 2022
Guardian of the Worlds
One day, at the foot of a tomb, Hassan fell asleep and never left the cemetery. For 40 years, on the hills of Jellaz in Tunisia, where he has made his home, he has been keeping watch over the dead and observing the living.
R 21 aka Restoring Solidarity
Palestine, Qatar, Belgium | 71m | 2022
R 21 aka Restoring Solidarity
"R 21 (Reel no.21) comes as an addition and a reflection on a collection of 20 films in 16mm format, safeguarded in Tokyo by Japanese solidarity movement with Palestine, it’s an undelivered love letter written by Japanese activist that was lost in the way to Palestinian filmmaker.
Sarura
Italy ,Palestine | 80m | 2022
Sarura
At the gates of the Negev desert, a group of young Palestinians fight against the Israeli military occupation. "Youth of Sumud” - the youth of steadfast perseverance - try to return to their people the land that was taken from their families, restructuring the ancient cave village of Sarura.
The Other Half
Greece | 72m | 2022
The Other Half
As if they never existed. People on the move. Facing danger in unfamiliar and unwelcoming places. For 15 years, a photojournalist bears witness to the journey of migrants across the dark crossings of European borders.
My lost country
Iraq, Chile, Egypt | 94m | 2022
My lost country
Iraqi theater director Mohsen Sadoon Yasin has spent much of his life in involuntary exile. His daughter, Ishtar Yasin Gutiérrez, has constructed a loving film portrait of her father, and an elegy for a homeland to which they can never return—partly because it has changed so much, and partly because it was perhaps always more a concept than a reality.
Iraq's Invisible Beauty
Belgium, France | 86m | 2023
Iraq's Invisible Beauty
Latif Al Ani photographed Iraq for 30 years before multiple wars arose. At the age of 86, he travels through his devastated country of Iraq in search of the people and places he photographed at the time, sharing his pictures with Iraqis today, and they cannot imagine that the Iraq in his photographs was once real.
Yallah Gaza
France, Palestine | 101m | 2023
Yallah Gaza
Gaza is a small Palestinian territory of 40 km x 12 km where more than 2 million people live.
The population has been completely locked up since 2007 by Israel and regularly bombarded in defiance of all the rules of International Law and United Nations conventions.
Society is still structured and organized there, but for how long?
Sebastia Disagreement
United Kingdom | 15m | 2023
Sebastia Disagreement
The project began with the occupation of Masudiya station by Gush Emunim, an Israeli settler organization, which led to the Sebastia agreement. The Sebastia agreement is a document signed between Gush Emunim and the Israeli government that legitimates the settlement movement by the Israeli government even though it is illegal under international law.
Apnea
Italy | 63m | 2023
Apnea
The voices of 14 migrants leaving their home, moving through Libya and getting to Italy after crossing the Mediterranean Sea mingle into a single story, representing thousands of other stories sunk under the sea.
Fiction Films
The Healer
Morocco, Italy, Qatar | 113m | 2018
The Healer
Abdou, a 16-year old teenager, living on the outskirts of a phosphate mining town called Khouribga. His adoptive mother Mbarka, is the neighbourhood midwife and healer.
Ch’Aayba, a thirty-year-old man, uncontrollable and ferociously cynical, is an eccentric pickpocket.
Urgent
Morocco, Switzerland | 86m | 2018
Urgent
Driss and Zahra leave their fisherman's village to take their six-year-old son, Ayoub, to the emergency room. The doctor diagnosed him with a brain problem that requires immediate action. This is the starting point of a painful and exhausting journey. Are they ready to do everything to save Ayoub's life?
Liza's Tale
Ukraine | 111m | 2019
Liza's Tale
Today, the world is an uncomfortable place. Two of the four characters are diagnosed with Down syndrome, known as sunny kids. However, is this world sunny enough for them?
In hopes of escaping their realities, the characters take a journey into the world of classical cinema with the help of an unusual screen in a magic cinema theatre.
Trap
Turkey | 83m | 2019
Trap
Five fishermen live on an island. Their ordinary life start to change with the unknown disappearance of one of them. Also a wolf comes to the island. The Wolf tries to open his own living space. These happenings cause a growing tension between friends.
The Stranger
Palestine, Syria, Germany, Qatar | 112m | 2021
The Stranger
In a small village in the occupied Golan Heights, the life of a desperate unlicensed doctor who is going through an existential crisis, takes another unlucky turn when he encounters a man wounded in the war in Syria.
Feathers
Egypt, Netherlands, France, Greece | 112m | 2021
Feathers
When a magic trick goes awry at a children’s birthday party, the authoritative father of the family turns into a chicken. An avalanche of coincidental absurdities befalls everyone; the mother, whose mundane life was dedicated to her husband and children, is now urged to come to the fore and take care of her family.
Golfishes
Morocco | 90m | 2022
Golfishes
Hayat is released after serving a long prison sentence. She returns to her hometown in northern Morocco, where she finds herself faced with a brother who refuses to welcome her for fear of shame. Hayat merely wishes to see her son so she can explain the truth to him.
Fathers and Sons
Netherlands | 80m | 2022
Fathers and Sons
Two emotionally stunted brothers convince a stranger to pose as their deceased father in order to keep living off his retirement income, only to find the stand-in's sensitive personality having an increasingly profound impact on them.
Short Films
Cabled
USA | 11m | 2017
Cabled
Before his retirement, a cable car conductor decides to conclude his incomplete life journey in one day.
Angel's Mirror
China | 14m | 2018
Angel's Mirror
In China, in the early 1990’s, a little boy and his family have just come to live in a large factory complex.
Game of Chicken
Poland | 15m | 2018
Game of Chicken
Desperate to gain his classmates' acceptance, fourteen-year-old Tony tries to beat Frank at his own game.
The Visit
Germany | 15m | 2018
The Visit
Klaus (60) works voluntary as a Santa Claus in a shopping mall. After an exhausting day, he considers quitting his job. But then, he gets a call from the children's intensive care unit.
The Helmet
Yemen | 9m | 2019
The Helmet
Osama is an emerging Yemeni inventor. He witnessed his dreams fade away, as episodes of gunfire and blockades dragged on in 2015. One evening, as the sounds of airstrikes fill him with feelings of loss, rage, entrapment and desperation, he starts dreaming once more to escape his reality.
The Room
France | 17m | 2019
The Room
Anne must come and pick up her father’s stuff at his household room. An Algerian emigrant she barely knew, he just passed away. Anne is going to discover her father through his objects and realize, after all those years, that he loved her.
Cuckoo!
Netherlands | 8m | 2019
Cuckoo!
Absurd comedy about a lonely man (Frank Lammers) who lives inside a cuckoo clock. Every hour he straps himself into his ejection seat and shoots through the doors of the clock. "Cuckoo!" He yells, "Cuckoo!" His work is of vital importance.
To Feel Your Broken Arms
Spain | 14m | 2019
To Feel Your Broken Arms
Luz is a little girl who shows a clear nursing vocation after her father's fateful accident. With the strong desire to feel again in the arms of her dad, Luz will create around her father's limited life a universe, giving hope to their lives, until one day, everything stops.
Pipo and Blind Love
France | 14m | 2019
Pipo and Blind Love
As he leaves the factory, Pipo, a young mute worker, falls under the spell of a young woman sitting on a bench. In a dehumanized world where emotions are controlled by a gauge, he will do everything to seduce her with his own language.
A Clown's Tale
Germany | 22m | 2019
A Clown's Tale
Marko and Harald are two struggling artists who work a variety of jobs in order to survive. Regardless of the economic realities of the clowns, they still transform into their red-nosed alter egos and are set free on the grounds of the children hospice.
Burqa City
France | 20m | 2019
Burqa City
Souleymane and Leila just got married, for better or for worse. “The better”, is that they love each other. “The worse”, is that they live in an absurd and kafkaesque country.
El Remanso
Colombia | 19m | 2019
El Remanso
Hoping for a new job, a family of wandering peasants settles in El Remanso, a country house in ruins full of brushwood where the tracks of an atrocious past are visible. In their first night at the house, in the middle of an atmosphere full of violence, the family expects with anxiety the upcoming peace of the dawn.
Gabriel
Iran | 19m | 2020
Gabriel
Gabriel is a middle-aged man who lives with his son. His wife has been lost for some time. All the people are suspicious about her. One day news comes to him and he has to choose one; expediency or conscience?!
The Final Battle
Syria | 17m | 2020
The Final Battle
Salem is no stranger to suppressed emotions but it becomes all too much for him after a humiliating accident at his drama school. After failing to get his spot back in a stage play, Salem is forced down a path of self-discovery and resurrection. Putting himself face to face with his mind’s villain
HENET WARD
Egypt | 22m | 2020
HENET WARD
Halima, a Sudanese henna painter goes to Basma's, a young Egyptian bride to prepare her for her wedding: under the eyes of her daughter Ward, the encounter between the two women grows from complicity to suddenly unveiled tensions.
The Ghosts We Left at Home
Jordan | 21m | 2020
The Ghosts We Left at Home
The Ghosts We Left at Home: is a raw and intimate portrayal of a man, and a city, doomed and in exile, and sinking to hit rock bottom. It plays in the margin of reality, where forces of the masculine and the feminine alternate, merge, attract and repel.
Washing Machine
India | 18m | 2021
Washing Machine
Kishan is taking his wife to a nearby doctor, while his father secretly desires for some good news and prays for his wishes to come true. The girl in the house plays with a boy doll not knowing it will be lost and broken by the end of this journey. Washing Machine is the story of a wife, a mother and a daughter in law, whose wishes are never even asked for.
Sometime we all will be happy
Russia | 25m | 2021
Sometime we all will be happy
The ginger-haired girl Masha has been special since childhood. Her mother did not approve her strange behavior and their relationship went wrong. Now Masha is in high school, and her mother works as a cleaner in the same school.
Young Italians
Italy | 12m | 2021
Young Italians
Is it enough to be born in Italy to be an Italian? Or is it necessary to behave as such, putting into practice the fundamental points of the specific social and cultural identity? The important thing is to be really happy in the Bel Paese is to embrace its clichés, especially if they come from generations of immigrants ...
A Year in Exile
Turkey, Syria | 19m | 2021
A Year in Exile
An immigrant’s first year in a metropolitan city outside his small country. Through a collection of moving images and sounds the film exhibits what he faces, the pictures that he sees, the crowded thoughts in his head, and the state of emotional shock that he lives throughout the year.
Go Home
United Kingdom | 14m | 2021
Go Home
When a young Palestinian woman tries to claim asylum in the UK, she faces the indifference of British bureaucracy and the disillusionment of a Polish asylum officer on the verge of leaving the country for good.
Shakira
France | 25m | 2021
Shakira
While trying to save her family from a return to the street, Shakira, a young gypsie woman, meets Marius, a member of a robber gang...
Marko
Croatia | 17m | 2021
Marko
Marko and Ankica never gotten over the death of their only child Ante in the war. When their neighbour Stipe suggests renting son’s room to tourists, Marko sees that as an insult but Ankica manages to talk him into it.
From The Mountain
Jordan, Syria, USA | 19m | 2021
From The Mountain
The fiery leader of the Great Syrian Revolt of 1925 fights to keep the flame of revolution alive from exile.
GAZA ATELIER
Palestine | 16m | 2022
GAZA ATELIER
In a parallel world, in a small house in Gaza city; a group of mannequins lives with their friend Ahlam who is a beginner fashion designer.
Tadhg "Story-Teller"
Palestine | 16m | 2022
Tadhg "Story-Teller"
Tadhg is 10 years old, and his name means 'story-teller' in Irish. His story is one of cold-water swimming, the calm of forests and mountains, refugee journeys across the seas, post-punk adventures with his best friend, Grace and wishing he was a seal.
A Haircut
China | 15m | 2022
A Haircut
High-school student Xiao Ruan likes her long and black hair; after she learned that the new school has a rule that girls must keep short hair; she decided to use the wig to disguise herself.
Almaz
Sudan | 30m | 2022
Almaz
Annually millions of people leave their homes searching for a new life – 24-year old Almaz is one of them. A key stop on one of the most well used migration paths in Africa, thousands cross Sudan each year. No official status or money Almaz battles isolation and discrimination while finding support and acceptance in unexpected ways
The Song
United Kingdom | 20m | 2022
The Song
An elderly refugee, recently arrived in a new and unfamiliar European city, confronts the isolation of his new apartment by creating his own soundscapes to recreate what is familiar and reassuring.
On My Father's Grave
Morocco | 24m | 2023
On My Father's Grave
A car drives to a Moroccan village. On board, Maïne and her family surround the father's coffin. Tomorrow, the men will bury him and the women will wait at home. But the young girl takes a very dim view on it and intends to lead with her father to his final resting place
Yellow
United Kingdom | 13m | 2023
Yellow
In Taliban controlled Afghanistan, Laili walks into a Chadari store in Kabul to buy her first full body veil from a Talib shopkeeper, and face a new future.
TRANSIT
Iraq | 16m | 2023
TRANSIT
Yacoub works in the statistics department in a hospital. He answers the calls of the victim families who are asking about missing persons during the war. Occasionally, he gets resentful about a telephone conversation that raises suspicion and anxiety in him.
Two worlds
India | 11m | 2023
Two worlds
A young graduate, deep in debt, receives a call on a sunny and busy morning in Chennai. Assuring that he'd reach within 15 mins, he begins racing in his motorbike through the traffic, risking his life even! The following sequence of events in the film unfolds the sad reality of today's world.
Animation Films
The Last Leaf
Ireland | 6m | 2016
The Last Leaf
A story about a little leaf who despite all Nature's laws, dreams to fly. Until the very last moment believes in his dream.
Ian, A Moving Story
Argentina | 9m | 2018
Ian, A Moving Story
Ian was born with cerebral palsy. Like all kids, he wants to have friends but discrimination and bullying keep him from his beloved playground. Ian won't give up easily, accomplishing something that will surprise everyone.
Eden
Spain | 4m | 2019
Eden
Rufina is ready to spend a field day, surrounded by peace and pleasant nature, will it be as simple as it seems?
45 Minutes — Palestinian Stories
Egypt | 5m | 2019
45 Minutes — Palestinian Stories
Thousands of Palestinian families must travel long and exhausting hours to meet their loved ones who are held in Israeli detention centers, only to spend 45 minutes with them. They have to enter the facilities with empty hands, but their hearts remain loaded with stories and longing to see their loved ones.
This Side, The Other Side
Iran | 9m | 2019
This Side, The Other Side
The film revolves around the idea of borders and the outstanding ability of children to form friendships and show affection regardless of these borders. Can we learn something from them?
Haboob
Iran | 9m | 2020
Haboob
A man and his daughter are used to living in harmony and peace with nature, but some disruptions change their lovely little life.
Mariam
Palestine, Netherlands | 5m | 2020
Mariam
Mariam undergoes a journey to find strength within herself through her culture and heritage, after the loss of her precious paradise.
Toy
Belarus | 11m | 2020
Toy
War is the worst thing that could happen in the life of every person, but for a child it is a tragedy at all. The pain of losing the closest people and trying to survive in a bloody dispute between adults is what remains with a small person for his whole life.
Night
Palestine, Jordan, Germany | 16m | 2021
Night
The dust of war keeps the eyes sleepless. Night brings peace and sleep to all the people in the broken town. Only the eyes of the mother of the missing child stay resilient. Night has to trick her into sleeping to save her soul.
Azrar (Buttons)
Jordan | 9m | 2021
Azrar (Buttons)
Old Ice cream van wandering through the old alleyways. (Abu al-Abd) A fat man, known to most of the neighborhood's children, he puts a red kufiya on his head. lack of interest, boredom and sadness on his face.
The Dalang's Tale
Malaysia | 6m | 2021
The Dalang's Tale
The Dalang's Tale is an animated short film about domestic violence with visuals inspired by Malaysian traditional Wayang kulit or shadow puppets.
Bridge
Algeria | 5m | 2021
Bridge
On a long journey from an unknown area. And across a lonely road, the father tries to search for the nearest hospital to treat his son. But before reaching one of them, a surprise changes the course of events. In an attempt to narrate the reality of the individual and his rights in poor communities.
The Soloists
France | 8m | 2021
The Soloists
In a small village ruled by a lot of ridiculous laws, three old ladies live together with their dog. In this village, women are not allowed to sing unless they are three, nor are they allowed to own a dog. As the three old ladies are rehearsing for their utmost performance, one has an untimely death ...
The Seine’s Tears
France | 9m | 2021
The Seine’s Tears
17 october 1961, "Algerian workers" get down the streets to manifest against the mandatory curfew imposed by the Police prefecture.
Blind Spot
Tunisia | 13m | 2022
Blind Spot
"Under the dictatorship of Ben Ali, in Tunisia, on the 7th of October 1991, a man is kidnapped. He was tortured, killed and then vanished without ever being found. Nearly thirty years later, he comes back to talk to us.
ZOO
Jordan | 8m | 2022
ZOO
Wandering through the Worst Zoo in the World, a young boy SAMI is looking for his football. The loner finds more than that when he encounters the little tiger LAZIZ, who follows him on his quest to find a safe place to play. Against all odds, they become friends. But the remnants of war harbor danger.
THE SPRAYER
Iran | 9m | 2022
THE SPRAYER
In a land occupied by the sprayers' army, no one has the right to grow any kind of plant, both in public and private spaces. Its people and soldiers do not even know how a plant grows. Until one day, a soldier finds a seed buried deep down in the dust...