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- DirectorMohammad RasoulofStarsLeila ZareFereshteh Sadre OrafaiyShahab HosseiniStory of a young lawyer in Tehran in search of a visa to leave the country, which is what Mohammad Rasoulof did during the winter of 2010/11.
- DirectorRafi PittsStarsRafi PittsJavad NazariMitra HajjarIn an act of vengeance, a young man randomly kills two police officers. He escapes to the forest, where he is arrested by two other officers. The three men are surrounded by trees, the woods. They are lost in a maze, a desolate landscape, where the boundaries between the hunter and the hunted are difficult to perceive.
- DirectorNadine LabakiStarsClaude Baz MoussawbaaNadine LabakiYvonne MaaloufA group of Lebanese women try to ease religious tensions between Christians and Muslims in their village.
- DirectorNadine LabakiStarsNadine LabakiJoanna MoukarzelGisèle AouadA romantic comedy centered on the daily lives of five Lebanese women living in Beirut.
- DirectorZiad DoueiriStarsRami DoueiriNaamar SahliMohamad ChamasIn April, 1975, civil war breaks out; Beirut is partitioned along a Moslem-Christian line. Tarek is in high school, making Super 8 movies with his friend, Omar. At first the war is a lark: school has closed, the violence is fascinating, getting from West to East is a game. His mother wants to leave; his father refuses. Tarek spends time with May, a Christian, orphaned and living in his building. By accident, Tarek goes to an infamous brothel in the war-torn Olive Quarter, meeting its legendary madam, Oum Walid. He then takes Omar and May there using her underwear as a white flag for safe passage. Family tensions rise. As he comes of age, the war moves inexorably from adventure to tragedy.
- DirectorMounir MaasriStarsCharbel KamelRobert CremonaCarmen BsaibesA band of students from Beirut's Huvelin Street and their fight against political oppression.
- DirectorSooney KadouhStarsSammy SheikJonathan StanleySayed BadreyaAfter smuggling himself into the United States and reconnecting with his estranged sister, a conflicted young Palestinian man begins an unlikely friendship with a lonely drug addict upon his quest to have the same U.S. company that manufactured the bomb that killed his young brother in Gaza, unknowingly make a small piece for his Qassam Rocket that will be fired into Israel upon his return.
- DirectorJoana HadjithomasKhalil JoreigeStarsZiad SaadJulia KassarAlexandra KahwagiA day in the life of Malek, a young man who suffers from sleep disorders and is obsessed with thoughts of his ex-girlfriend. Meanwhile, his overprotective mother struggles with the disappearance of her husband, who was kidnapped more than 15 years ago during the civil war.
- DirectorNicolette SainaJ.D. SchroderStarsDavid MacInnisFareed AbdelhakIlana AndersonOver thirty years after her father's death, Anna, harbors a silent voice inside, and it seems to be getting louder as she gets older. She is still not over the loss of her dad and she is not sure why. She re-creates scenes in her mind, pulling both from her childhood memories as well as from her imagination of what his early 80's Middle East workplace might have been like.
- DirectorLorne ThyssenStarsFadi Abi SamraCharles DanceWilliam HopeCharles Lushington, an English professor of Middle-Eastern affairs visits Beiruit and becomes involved with Leila, a young Lebanese woman. Her opinions force Lushington to review his own previously-held convictions.
- DirectorSalim el TurkStarsLorraine KodeihShady HannaZiad SaidThe true story of a fake identity. Is she a prostitute who will commit suicide or just a virtual character in an unfinished film by a crazy color blind director?
- DirectorSamer DaboulStarsRudy MoarbesAli RhayemJad HadidA modern tale of friendship and love in Lebanon today. It is also a bittersweet reflection on the social struggles of the after war generation.
- DirectorEmad El RifaiStarsAziz AbdoNancy AfiouniSamer Al GharibThe story of a severely traumatized woman, after her husband was killed and her son kidnapped. 4 years has passed and her son Fadi is still lost.
- DirectorJoe Bou EidStarsJoy KaramChady TinehCarol AbboudIt was the summer of 82, when a priest, about to be ordained, was exhausted by temptations and an arrogant girl felt passionately in love... A sifted memory and a personal history of a narrator who tells with nostalgia and poetry the meeting of his parents until their marriage...
- DirectorRuba NaddaStarsPatricia ClarksonAlexander SiddigElena AnayaA romantic drama about a brief, unexpected love affair that catches two people completely off-guard.
- DirectorRuba NaddaStarsArsinée KhanjianSetta KeshishianRoula SaidOne day, when Sabah least expects it, she falls in love with the wrong man. She's Muslim, he's not. Unbeknownst to her family, she goes on a whirlwind affair before both culture and love collide.
- DirectorMohamed Al DaradjiStarsShazada HusseinYasser TalibBashir Al MajidA willful young boy follows his just as obstinate grandmother in a journey across Iraq, determined to discover the fate of her missing son, Ahmed's father, who never returned from war.
- DirectorTarek AlarianStarsAhmed El SakkaHanan TurkAmr WakedThis Egyptian action film is about Tito (Ahmad Al Saqa), who was sentenced to 16 years in jail after a burglary when he was a kid. After he gets out, he goes back to crime with a corrupt police officer (Khaled Saleh), but also befriends Fares (Amr Waked), and the two open up a unique restaurant. Fares introduces Tito to Nour (Hanan Turk), a physician, and they fall in love, and Tito tries to leave his life of crime.
- DirectorWael IhsanStarsAhmed HelmyNourKhaled El-Sawi"Tarek " young and romantic works in one of the mobile operators, by chance enters on an adventure to save his love of unreal danger.
- DirectorAmr ArafaStarsAmir AbdulfattahHana AbdulfattahMuhyiddin AbdulhamidAfter spending 30 years in prison, a man comes out to find out he has a son. Together with his son and a newly-acquired friend he resumes his criminal life.
- DirectorAli IdrisStarsAdel EmamMervat AminBasmaMorgan, who is an uneducated very rich man, is used to buy everything he wants. Now the one thing we wants is a college certificate which he seeks to buy.
- DirectorMohamed DiabStarsNilli KarimBushraMaged El-KidwaniUnfolds the poignant story of three women and their search for justice from the daily plight of sexual harassment in Egypt.
- DirectorYoussef ChahineStarsNour El-SherifLayla OlwiMahmoud HemidaThe story is set in the 12th century in Arab-ruled Spanish province Andalusia, where famed philosopher Averroes is appointed grand judge by the caliph and his liberal court judgments are not liked by everyone. The caliph's political rivals, centered around the leader of a fanatical Islamic sect, force the caliph to send Averroes into exile, but his ideas keep on living thanks to his students.
- DirectorRobert BesharaStarsDalia El GuindyFixAshraf HabashyWe witness the growth of Waheed during one day. The day before his birthday and a week after the death of his parents.
- DirectorAmr SalamaStarsHana AbdulfattahHany AdelAshraf AminHistory literally repeats itself when May meets and falls in love with a passionate young actor, only months after the tragic death of her first fiancée. All the 'signs' suggest her new lover will meet the same fate.