France

ANIMALIA
Sofia Alaoui
Drama
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Feature
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90
 mins
Married into a wealthy family, Itto feels like an interloper in her in-laws’ grand house, but she is alone when an strange celestial event occurs.
Frescos of a Ruined Memory
Adnan Kayssi
Experimental
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Short
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19
 mins
Kamal, traumatized from his nightmares, projects his fears on his boyfriend Jad. Their relationship becomes unstable until one of them realizes he can’t go on with it.
Pacific Club
Valentin Noujaïm
Documentary
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Short
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16
 mins
Azedine tells us the forgotten story of the Pacific Club, the first nightclub for Arabs from the suburbs, and of this generation who dreamed of integrating into France.
The Foreign Land
Nael Zaiti Ruelle
Drama
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Short
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19
 mins
Farida is back in her father’s native Algeria for the first me since she was a child. She discovers her grandmother’s house in the middle of the countryside. When the night comes, her sleep is disturbed by an intruder.
Warsha
Dania Bdeir
Drama
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Short
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16
 mins
A Syrian migrant working as a crane operator in Beirut volunteers to cover a shift on one of the most dangerous cranes, where he is able to find his freedom.
Escape
Katia Jarjoura
Documentary
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Feature
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77
 mins
Escape is a poetic and intimate journey on the path of exile, through the story of five Syrian women artists scattered in different countries.
Les chenilles
Michelle Keserwany
Noel Keserwany
Drama
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Short
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30
 mins
Asma and Sarah, two women originally from the Levant, find themselves working in the same restaurant in the city of Lyon in France.
Broken Mirrors
Othmane Saadouni
Documentary
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Feature
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118
 mins
Broken Mirrors uses the choreographic piece "TELLES QUELLES / TELS QUELS" to express the point of view of today's Moroccan youth to the world.
Flee
Jonas Poher Rasmussen
Animation
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Feature
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90
 mins
Flee tells the story of Amin Nawabi as he grapples with a painful secret he has kept hidden for 20 years, one that threatens to derail the life he has built for himself and his soon to be husband.
Khtobtogone
Sara Sadik
Documentary
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Short
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16
 mins
Khtobtogone depicts the emotional roller-coasters of politics infused in Zine’s daily life, as a young French working-class man from the Maghrebi diaspora.
You Resemble Me
Dina Amer
Drama
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Feature
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90
 mins
Two sisters are abruptly separated, the eldest, Hasna, struggles to find her identity and place in the world.
Arab Blues
Manele Labidi
Drama
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Feature
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88
 mins
Ziyara
Simone Bitton
Documentary
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Feature
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99
 mins
In Ziyara (a term that refers to a form of pilgrimage to sacred places), Bitton returns to her homeland of Morocco and searches for the traces the Jews have left behind.
Bellydance Vogue
Hadi Moussally
Documentary
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Short
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5
 mins
Hadi’s birthday landed on the 3rd of April, 2020, during lockdown, and for the first time he celebrated it all by himself.
So What If the Goats Die
Sofia Alaoui
Sci-fi
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Short
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23
 mins
The Lost Pen
Beraat GOKKUS
Drama
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Short
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14
 mins
The Land I'm Drowning In
Negin Khazaee
Léa Carbogno
Drama
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Short
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18
 mins
A woman returns to the desert in search of her husband who disappeared right after Islamic Revolution.