9-Month Contract
2025GeorgiaNine months of pregnancy for 14,000 dollars? A long friendship between director and protagonist evolves into a film about surrogate motherhood and dignity in an unregulated industry in Tbilisi.
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50 Meters
2025EgyptThrough a nuanced, emotionally layered father-daughter journey in the waters of a community swimming pool in Cairo, Yomna a first-time director, uses her filmmaking process as a tool to spend more time with her father, approaching him to explore her existential questions about career, parenthood and mortality.
Timestamp
2025UkraineTimestamp is an insight to how the war in Ukraine is affecting the daily lives of school children and teachers.
A State of Passion
2024PalestineAfter 43 horrific days working round the clock under constant bombardment in the emergency rooms of Gaza’s Al Shifa and Al Ahli hospitals, British-Palestinian reconstructive surgeon, Dr. Ghassan Abu Sittah, emerged to find himself as a face of Palestinian resistance.
Abo Zaabal 89
2024EgyptThrough the recollections of a father and his son, the story of the events of 1989 in the Abo Zaabal prison is brought to life for the first time.
Songs of Slow Burning Earth
2024UkraineReflective observations of Ukraine in wartime are interwoven with eye-witness accounts to contemplate the ultimate tragedy: the normalization of war.
From Ground Zero
2024PalestineThe combined work of 22 artists living in a besieged Gaza Strip, this omnibus film provides a contextualizing and critically important look beyond the brutal livestream. Organized by the Mashawari Fund for films and filmmakers in Gaza.
We Are Inside
2024LebanonAfter 15 years, Farah returns to Lebanon to live with her father. They reconnect through the only language he understands: poetry.
The Brink Of Dreams
2024EgyptIn a village in Egypt, a group of girls rebel by forming a street theater troupe, challenging their families and villagers with their performances.
No Other Land
2024PalestineThis film made by a Palestinian-Israeli collective, Basel and Yuval, shows the destruction of the occupied West Bank's Masafer Yatta by Israeli soldiers.
Diaries from Lebanon
2024LebanonIn 2018 Lebanon, Georges, Joumana, and Perla Joe grapple with war, politics, and revolution, sharing a dream to rebuild amid a country in turmoil.
Dancing on the Edge of a Volcano
2024LebanonDuring Beirut's 2020 port blast devastation, a Lebanese film crew persists, filming against the backdrop of economic turmoil and societal collapse.
Girl With Goals
2023PakistanIn the craggy hills of northern Pakistan, 12-year-old Leeza dreams of becoming a football player to see the world… But she’s not really good at it.
A House Made of Splinters
2023UkraineChild welfare institution’s staff strives to create a safe and supportive environment for kids awaiting court decisions on removal from their homes.
Iraq’s Invisible Beauty
2023Iraq‘Father of Iraqi photography’ Latif Al Ani travels his country, but does not recognise the people and the places he photographed before the wars.