Paradise Now

Two childhood friends are recruited for a suicide bombing in Tel Aviv.

The Nativity Story

Mary and Joseph make the hard journey to Bethlehem for a blessed event in this retelling of the Nati

Conversations with My Gardener

A successful artist, weary of Parisian life and on the verge of divorce, returns to the country to l

Hellraiser

A young woman struggling with addiction comes into possession of an ancient puzzle box, unaware that

The Syrian Bride

In Majdal Shams, the largest Druze village in Golan Heights on the Israeli-Syrian border, the Druze

Free Zone

Rebecca, an American who has been living in Jerusalem for a few months now, has just broken off her

Lemon Tree

Salma Zidane, a widow, lives simply from her grove of lemon trees in the West Bank's occupied territ

Munich

During the 1972 Olympic Games in Munich, eleven Israeli athletes are taken hostage and murdered by a

The Visitor

A college professor travels to New York City to attend a conference and finds a young couple living

Amreeka

Eager to provide a better future for her son, Fadi, divorcée Muna Farah leaves her Palestinian homel

Spy(ies)

In London, an airport baggage handler is forced by French and British intelligence agents to seduce

We Need a Vacation

It is the end of the school year for the children of a dormitory town. Most of them leave the place

Miral

A drama centered on an orphaned Palestinian girl growing up in the wake of the first Arab-Israeli wa

Disengagement

A political drama centered around Israel's pullout from the occupied Gaza strip, in which a French w

I Am Slave

Based on the real-life experiences of Mende Nazer, the story unfolds as twelve-year-old Malia, daugh

Human Zoo

In Marseille, the young Serbian-Albanian Adria Shala is an illegal immigrant traumatized by her past

The Feelings Factory

A successful woman searches for romance by speed dating in this drama. Eloise has a great job and a

Pomegranates and Myrrh

A free spirited woman dancer, Kamar, finds herself the lonely wife of a prisoner, Zaid, and away fro

The Source

A comedy/drama set in a village and centered on a battle of the sexes, where women threaten to withh

Persecution

A solitary man and his partner share a tense love/hate relationship. Their lives are disrupted when

A Loving Father

Writer Léo Shepherd lives in rural France together with his daughter Virginia, who manages his affai

The Demon Stirs

Anne Cestac accepts the obvious: her husband Julien, in his forties, has fallen madly in love with a

Satin Rouge

After the death of her husband, Lilia's life revolves solely around her teenage daughter, Salma. Whi

A Bottle in the Gaza Sea

Tai is 17 years old. Naim is 20. She's Israeli. He's Palestinian. She lives in Jerusalem. He lives i

The Gate of the Sun

Yousry Nasrallah's powerful adaptation of Lebanese writer Elias Khoury's epic novel of fifty years o

Haifa

Haifa, nicknamed after the city of his love and hope, goes around and comes around in a Palestinian

Inheritance

A Palestinian family living in the north of Galilee gathers to celebrate the wedding of one of their

Games of Clouds and Rain

Li Qin leaves her temperamental husband and unknowingly provides a trail for a detective who has bee

Bye Bye Tiberias

In her early twenties, Hiam Abbass left her native Palestinian village to follow her dream of becomi

May in the Summer

A bride-to-be is forced to reevaluate her life when she reunites with her family in Jordan and finds

Everyday Is a Holiday

It's Independence Day in Lebanon: three women who've never met before are on the same bus heading to

Living in Paradise

Set in France in 1961-1962 during the Algerian War, Living in Paradise is a thought-provoking examin

Tar Angel

Newly-arrived Ahmed tries to integrate his family to the canadian society, while attempting to contr

Mateo Falcone

Corsica in the 19th century. An isolated farm at the edge of some scrub. Left to alone by his parent

Do Not Forget Me Istanbul

Several directors from countries of the region were invited to create stories taking place in and ar

Rock the Casbah

The whole family is reunited when Sofia comes back for his father's funeral. Quickly, inner problems

Peace After Marriage

Desperate for companionship, a lonely, young Palestinian-American man agrees to marry an Israeli wom

A Police Romance

In a small police station, Lieutenant Emilie Carange finds herself sexually attracted to Jamil Messa

The Bag of Flour

Based on a true story, this beautifully-shot epic traces the life of Sarah, from her early years in

Nadia and Sarra

Nadia is a 45 year old female professor at the University of Tunis. She is married and has a daughte

Love Conquers All

Suzanne, a sixty-year-old Lebanese widow of Palestinian origin, meets Osmane, a young Black Sudanese

Habibti

A veiled Arab woman, steeped in tradition, journeys to London to visit her estranged daughter only t

l'Arabe

Insidious: The Red Door

To put their demons to rest once and for all, Josh Lambert and a college-aged Dalton Lambert must go

No Beast. So Fierce.

In the aftermath of a bloody gang war, the youngest daughter of the victorious Arab clan begins to p

De guerre lasse

Alex, the son of a gang boss from Marseilles, joins the French Foreign Legion to avoid a hit put out

Love Conquers All

Susan, a 65 year old impoverished widow living in Beirut, meets Osman, a young Sudanese immigrant wo

Exodus: Gods and Kings

The defiant leader Moses rises up against the Egyptian Pharaoh Ramses, setting 400,000 slaves on a m

Dégradé

A hot summer's day in the Gaza Strip. Today the electricity is on. Christine’s beauty salon is heavi

Dawn of the World

The Mesopotamian Marshes, at the delta of the Euphrates and Tigris rivers, in the south of Iraq. Thi

Kandisha

Shattered by the loss of her child, Nyla Jayde, a brilliant criminal defense attorney, takes on a ca

The Sense of Wonder

Louise, a widow with two children, almost crushes a stranger with her car. She takes care of him, ev

Before What Comes After

In a kind of philosophical dialogue, Doctor Augustin Masset and renowned writer Fabrice Toussaint di

Blade Runner 2049

Thirty years after the events of the first film, a new blade runner, LAPD Officer K, unearths a long

Foreign Body

In the turbulent aftermath of the Tunisian revolution, young Samia flees her homeland. She braves ho

I Still Hide to Smoke

Α tragi-comedy about 9 women of different ages and various backgrounds that gather in an Algerian ha

Azur & Asmar: The Princes' Quest

Raised on tales of a Djinn fairy princess, Azur, a young Frenchman goes to North Africa in search of

In Syria

A mother attempts to keep her family safe as war rages and a sniper lies in wait outside her home.

Carnivores

At the dawn of her thirties, Mona tries relentlessly to take off as an actress. Time passes and prop

The Limits of Control

A mysterious stranger works outside the law and keeps his objectives hidden, trusting no one. While

Nasser's Republic: The Making of Modern Egypt

In 1952 a young Egyptian colonel named Gamal Abdel Nasser led a coup that became a revolution, winni

When Arabs Danced

Writer, director, and journalist Jawad Rhalib presents a timely exploration of Muslim identity in re

Ali, Rabiaa and the Others

In the 70s, Ali, Rabiaa, Driss, Abdellah and Hamid are a group of friends grow up in a heavy world o

Brother

Because he wanted to protect his little brother, Teddy, a young man without a history, is accused of

Bread

A mother living in the French countryside bicycles into town to buy a baguette for her family, and m

The Swallows of Kabul

Summer 1998—Kabul under Taliban rule. Zunaira and Mohsen are young and in love. Despite the daily vi

Sofa So Good

In the streets of New York, a young woman is relentlessly, stubbornly and desperately looking for a

Minor Revelations

"The choice of each period is intimate, as each period awakens a particular emotion in me. This emot

In Vitro

In an underground orchard in Bethlehem, decades after an otherworldly ecodisaster, two scientists di

Gaza Mon Amour

In Gaza, 60-year-old fisherman Issa has been secretly in love with Siham, a widow who works at the m

Nothing Escapes My Eyes

"Nothing Escapes My Eyes" is about a silent transformation of a place and a human being. Inspired by

The Wedding Guest

Blanche

Chloé, a young baby sitter, must look after Blanche, the daughter of Agnes and François, for the fir

Sur les traces de Mélanie

Rachid learned of Mélanie's accidental death. He decides to follow in his footsteps by taking his fr

When the Cat's Away

When Chloe, a young Parisian, decides to take a long-overdue vacation, she has to find someone to lo

Keepers of the Covenant: Making 'Exodus: Gods and Kings'

An in-depth documentary on the making of Ridley Scott's "Exodus: Gods and Kings," featuring intervie

Le Poisson rouge

Night

Night has to trick the mother of the missing child into sleeping to save her soul.

Raddem

A young woman searches through war-torn and rebuilding Beirut for a man who took pictures of her hom

Spices and Lies

Mehdi's life lies on a fragile balance. He plays the role of the perfect Algerian son for his mother

Common Ground: Under Construction Notes

The making of Alejandro González Iñárritu’s Babel is chronicled through an observational approach th

Palestine 36

1936. As villages across Palestine rise against British colonial rule, Yusuf drifts between his rura

À voix basse

Back in Tunisia for her uncle's funeral, Lilia reunites with a family that knows nothing about her l

Atonement

Based on Dexter Filkins’ resonant New Yorker article of the same name, about Marine Lu Lobello, haun

The Shelter

Leila is a former concert pianist from Aleppo, which bore much of the brunt of the ghastly Syrian Ci

La nuit miraculeuse

To celebrate the bicentennial of the French revolution, an exposition of mannequins representing the

Une famille française