Film based on true events in Algiers, 1998: Fatima is 65 years old and lives in a popular area ravaged by domestic violence and terrorism. She lives alone, without any links to her neighorhood. But behind the obvious indifference hides a terrible secret.
Driss is to spend a month in Algiers to meet up with his parents, brother, cousins, as well as with his native country, that has deeply changed ever since he left. He meets Nedjma, a distant cousin, who is a bit conservative and shy. He arouses her desire for independence and freedom, yet her hand is promised to Amran.
To create something out of nothing is about the lives of several adolescents in a Palestinian children’s dance troupe from Dheisheh refugee camp in the West Bank.
The siren explores a mysterious legend associated with the Simsimiyyia an ancient Egyptian lute dating back to the times of Pharaohs. This legend warns how the Simsimiyyia (originally used in exorcism rituals known as Zar) will bewitch her players, who are also known as her lovers, eanchanting ultimately enslaving them through music.
Serheldan is 13, Kurdish. She tries to understand her identity and shows us her neighbourhood through several interviews shot with her friend Christine.
This documentary covers the idea of veiling by Muslim women(better known as hijab by the Muslims) and the many questions instigated by it among Muslims and non-Muslims, There are questions of oppression, choice, religious or cultural role to state a basic few. This documentary is unlike any other documentary on this specific subject matter because it is first of all, being made by women like us who are both educated Muslims and wear the hijab.
In occupied Palestine, a landscape marked by military checkpints, a Palestinian film crew decides to avert a closed checkpoint by taking a remote side road. From here onward the political landscape slowly unravels and the crew is taken apart by the mundane brutality of military occupation.