Qatar

Alyssa and Mehdi, escaping their bleak reality, embark on a daring road trip to Tunisia, driven by a contest that promises freedom.

A civil servant, a tea lady, a resistance committee volunteer, and two street boys have their stories unexpectedly woven together through animated dreams, street revolutions and a civil war.

In this powerful and inspiring documentary, Afghan filmmaker Najiba Noori documents repression by the Taliban and resistance to it across three generations of women in her family.

As the blue sky meets the surrounding seas, the native-turned-archeologist Hassan Al-Failakawy returns to his abandoned island of Failaka, off the coast of Kuwait, after decades of displacement.

A fable set in a confined world outside time, follows prodigy Abdo as he rebels against his elders. Music becomes Abdo’s weapon against their oppressive rule, offering a glimpse of a better world.

When Fariha, a 70-year-old singer from Yemen, meets young filmmaker Badr, the two embark on a journey to relaunch Fariha's long-lost singing career.

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.

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.

After feeling like a stranger in his own country, Firas, a nine-year-old Jordanian-Lebanese boy, goes to extreme lengths to finally fit in.

If these buildings could talk, what would they say? In this animated documentary, three of Beirut’s monumental buildings come to life and share their stories of Beirut’s unsettling history.

Faya Dayi is a spiritual journey into the highlands of Harar immersed in the rituals of khat, a leaf that Sufi Muslims chewed for religious meditations – and Ethiopia’s most lucrative cash crop today.

Akbar, Soori, Mohammed and Hakim, the children of Afghan parents who fled to Iran in the 1980s, have formed a rock band. Despite the danger they will face, they dream of performing in Afghanistan.