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- During a beach excursion, Nfissa, a young mother, is lynched to death by a group of young men, while swimming offshore. Nobody seems to witness her disappearing. Anxiety and fear grow among the family, especially as, on the same beach, bathers suddenly die.
- Set in 2006 against the backdrop of intense sectarian war, Our River...Our Sky follows the stories of a small Baghdad community trying to find some semblance of normality and hope despite unpredictable violence, turmoil, and loss.
- A young Egyptian filmmaker recounts his interaction with a group of plainclothes policemen while grappling with issues of guilt and morality.
- Filmed over a period of ten years, Dance with a Bullet is about the personal story of a 27-year old Iraqi male dancer named Anmar Taha, his survival after being shot in Baghdad by Muslim extremists in 2006 and the new life he built up for himself after fleeing to Sweden. Anmar's close friend - the filmmaker - narrates.
- Moving between the playful and the contemplative, explores the meaning of identity and home across three generations of an Iraqi family in Texas.
- During the Algerian Revolution, my great-uncle El Hadi joined his sister in France and became an active member of a secret FLN armed group. Settling of scores, attempted murder, hiding, imprisonment and finally deportation back to Algeria in 1962, his personal journey tells the story of countless ex-fighters for Algerian independence, and echoes the current effervescence of the Arab World. Today, at the age of seventy, El Hadi reveals this dark part of his life for the first time.
- The lost diary of a Bedouin girl inspires a filmmaker's journey back home.
- A young Lebanese filmmaker who shares a Beirut apartment with his mother and pet dog sets about reconstructing his identity by renovating his bedroom. But as the male construction workers come and go in the freshly embattled household, new questions, old arguments and unexpected passions get stirred.
- BEIT SHA'AR (NOMAD'S HOME) is a portrait of two Arab women born of entirely different social and cultural circumstances within Egypt: IMAN KAMEL, an Egyptian filmmaker who has left Cairo to live in Berlin and SELEMA GABALI, a Bedouin social entrepreneur confined to remote regions of the Sinai Peninsula.
- World-renowned Spanish choreographer Nacho Duato is forced to redeem himself artistically after being fired from the dance company he led for 20 years.