خلاصه داستان : ماداگاسکار، امروزه کوامه 20 ساله برای امرار معاش در معادن مخفی یاقوت کبود تلاش می کند. یک اتفاق غیرمنتظره او را به زادگاهش می برد. هنگامی که او با مادر و دوستان قدیمی‌اش ملاقات می‌کند، خود را با مشکلاتی روبه‌رو می‌کند...

Madagascar, nowadays. Kwame, 20, struggles to make a living in the clandestine sapphire mines. An unexpected event takes him back to his hometown. As he reunites with his mother and old friends, he finds himself confronted with the rampant corruption plaguing his country. He will have to choose between easy money and loyalty, between individualism and political awakening.

خلاصه داستان : در یک شهر فلسطینی، تامر و دوستانش زندگی یک دانش آموز دبیرستانی معمولی را تا رسیدن مایسا زیبا می گذرانند. برای خشنود کردن او، تامر موافقت می کند که در یک عملیات پرچم مرموز در آستانه روز استقلال اسرائیل که روز عزاداری برای فلسطینیان است، شرکت کند.

Despite being part of a young generation of Palestinian Arabs whose families chose to stay and challenge the Israeli state after Al-Nakba, 17-year-old Tamer and his friends are just like any other group of teenage boys. They clumsily search for drugs, flirt with girls, play video games, and slack off at school. However, when a beautiful new student named Maysaa’ joins their class Tamer immediately falls for her and, by association, is drawn into her political activism. Together they join fellow classmate, Safwat, in an operation to covertly raise the Palestinian flag and peacefully disrupt the local celebrations planned for Israel’s Independence Day – otherwise known to Palestinians as a day of mourning and memorialization for their displacement 70 years prior. Unsure of his own political convictions, Tamer must quickly determine what matters to him and what price he is willing to pay for freedom.

خلاصه داستان : یک فروشنده مواد مخدر لبنانی که قصد قاچاق مواد مخدر از مرزها را دارد، با کمک یک فیلمساز دست کم گرفته شده، افکار عمومی را حیله گرانه دستکاری می کند.

A dark comedy about brothers running a drug-dealing business out of their takeout pizzeria.

خلاصه داستان : ولادا هنگام بمباران ناتو در صربستان در سال ۱۹۹۹ به عنوان راننده کامیون کار می کند. او وظیفه حمل باری مرموز از کوزوو به بلگراد را بر عهده دارد....

Vlada works as a truck driver during the NATO bombing of Serbia in 1999. Tasked with transporting a mysterious load from Kosovo to Belgrade, he drives through unfamiliar territory, trying to make his way in a country scarred by the war. He knows that once the job is over, he will need to return home and face the consequences of his actions.

خلاصه داستان : یک دروغ به‌ظاهر کوچک از سوی یک دختر نوجوان او را به طوفانی از انتظارات، محکومیت‌ها و اصول اجتماعی می‌کشاند.

In Sarajevo, a teenager seeking affirmation reveals that she had sex for the first time during a game of 'truth or dare' among middle schoolers. Trapped in her own lie, she fabricates a pregnancy and becomes the center of a controversy that spirals out of control.

خلاصه داستان : یک پسر نوجوان فقیر اما مغرور اولزی تصمیم می گیرد که در یک مسابقه فیزیک برای بورسیه تحصیلی برنده شود، اما مادر بی سوادش شغلی در روستا پیدا می کند و او را با خواهر و برادرش در وسط زمستان رها می کند.

Ulzii, a teenager from a poor neighborhood in Ulaanbaatar, is determined to win a sciences-physics competition to get a scholarship. His illiterate mother finds a job in the countryside, leaving him and his brother and sister in the middle of winter. Ulzii wanders around at night looking for things to burn for heat while preparing for the national competition.

خلاصه داستان : دانیل، مرد جوانی که در 20 سالگی به اسلام گرویده است، با الکساندرا، یک زن جوان آزاده اهل کلوژ-ناپوکا، زادگاهش در رومانی، ازدواج می کند.

Shot in Romania, Saudi Arabia, Jordan and Qatar, the documentary follows the story of Alexandra, who decides to marry Daniel, a young man converted to Islam.

خلاصه داستان : مردم در خیابان های خاکی لسوتو با کنجکاوی به زن جوان خیره می شوند که مانند عیسی صلیب چوبی را بر پشت خود حمل می کند. او به چهره آنها نگاه می کند، به مناظر زیبای عرفانی، گله ای از گوسفند و یک جفت ...

The wastelands and crowded streets of an African country are traversed by a woman bearing a wooden cross on her back. She is followed by sellers, beggars and passersby, outraged voices, pity and curious glances. Parallel to her, among a herd of sheep, a lamb toddles its way from the far away mountains into the heart of the city, only to find itself dangling, skinned and headless, on a butcher’s shoulder. In the meantime, under the scorching sun, in a roofless house, a woman is persistently knitting a garment, unwinding a thread coiled over her son’s face. ‘Mother, I Am Suffocating. This is My Last Film About You’ is a symbolic social-political voyage of a society, spiralling between religion, identity and collective memory. “I saw in you what they saw, mother. You deserve your war”.

خلاصه داستان : در جریان حمله سال 1982 به لبنان در یک مدرسه خصوصی در حومه بیروت ، ویسام 11 ساله تلاش می کند تا از یک همکلاسی خود درمورد فشارهایش بر علیه او بگوید ، در حالی که معلمانش در جناحهای مختلف اختلاف سیاسی، سعی می کنند که...

"1982" is a life-affirming coming-of-age tale set at an idyllic school in Lebanon’s mountains on the eve of a looming invasion. It unfolds over a single day and follows an 11-year-old boy’s relentless quest to profess his love to a girl in his class. As the invasion encroaches on Beirut, it upends the day, threatening the entire country and its cohesion. Within the microcosm of the school, the film draws a harrowing portrait of a society torn between its desire for love and peace and the ideological schisms unraveling its seams. In his debut feature, director Oualid Mouaness delivers an ode to innocence in which he revisits one of the most cataclysmic moments in Lebanon's history through the lens of a child and his vibrant imagination. The film demonstrates the complexities of love and war, and the resilience of the human spirit.

خلاصه داستان : برخی از فلسطینی‌هایی که در یک بازداشتگاه اسرائیلی نگهداری می‌شوند گرد هم آمده‌اند تا تجربیات خود را در تلاش برای بهبودی دوباره به نمایش بگذارند.

A set-up for an experiment in an empty room. Former inmates reconstruct an Israeli secret service interrogation centre. These Palestinian men use role play to come to terms with their memories and the humiliation they have experienced.

خلاصه داستان : یک جنایتکار به قبر جعلی که سالها قبل غارت خود را در آنجا دفن کرده باز می گردد و متوجه می شود که این قبر به زیارتگاه یک قدیس ناشناخته و یک روستای کوچک پر رونق تبدیل شده است.

Following a stint behind bars, a thief returns to where he buried his loot, only to find that his hiding spot is now a shrine to an unknown saint.

خلاصه داستان : دختر و پسرِ جوانی سرگردان و آواره در بیمارستان‌های تهران‌اند، در پی علاجِ بیماری‌ای که بنا نیست درمان شود....

During a dramatic night, two young lovers run from hospital to hospital seeking for an help for some complications after their first time. They'll have to confront with the indifference of some doctors and avoid them to call their parents.

خلاصه داستان : پدری فلسطینی که در آن سوی دیوار جدایی گیر افتاده بود سعی می کند پسرش را به بیمارستان برساند...

Mustafa and his wife Salwa come from two Palestinian villages that are only 200 meters apart, but separated by the wall. Their unusual living situation is starting to affect their otherwise happy marriage, but the couple does what they can to make it work. Every night, Mustafa flashes a light from his balcony to wish his children on the other side a goodnight, and they signal him back. One day Mustafa gets a call that every parent dreads: his son has been in an accident. He rushes to the checkpoint where he must agonisingly wait in line only to find out there is a problem with his fingerprints and is denied entry. Desperate, Mustafa resorts to hiring a smuggler to bring him across. His once 200-meter journey becomes a 200-kilometer odyssey joined by other travellers determined to cross.

خلاصه داستان : زن و شوهری تصمیم می‌گیرند آلودگی سمی شهر خود بیروت را ترک کنند، به این امید که یک زندگی آرمان‌شهری در خانه‌ای بکر در کوهستان بسازند و ....

Members of a family quit the polluted, rubbish-strewn city of Beirut for an idyllic mountain home. However, their dreams of a utopian existence are shattered by the construction of a landfill on the boundary of their land.

خلاصه داستان : فیلم داستان پسر 17 ساله‌ای به نام “زی” که در جامعه سرد و بی‌احساس مغولستان مدرن به تحصیل مشغول است. اما با ورود “مارالا” به زندگی اش، حواس او بیدار می‌شود و به نظر می‌رسد دنیای دیگری در مقابلش گشوده می‌شود و …

A spiritual shaman is a crucial member of the community, the one who everyone depends on when in need of moral and spiritual guidance. What happens when that shaman is a 17-year-old high school student who must balance his profound Spiritual responsibilities while also juggling another life - that of a high school student - working hard to success in the cold, callous society of modern Mongolia. Introducing Ze, 17-year-old gentle Mongolian shaman...

خلاصه داستان : ورود دوستی مرموز به زندگی تنها پسر یک خانواده، باعث بروز مشکلات و آشکار شدن رازهای پنهان در خانواده می‌شود.

A middle-class family's fate becomes intertwined with their only son's enigmatic new friend in post one-child policy China, putting unspoken secrets, unmet expectations, and untended emotions under the microscope.

خلاصه داستان : هیام عباس، هنرپیشه فلسطینی، پس از سال‌ها زندگی در فرانسه و فعالیت در عرصه بازیگری، به همراه دخترش به زادگاه خود در فلسطین باز می‌گردد. این مستند، روایتی صمیمی از زندگی چهار نسل از زنان این خانواده و تجربه مشترک جدایی و آوارگی آنها را به تصویر می‌کشد.

In her early twenties, Hiam Abbass left her native Palestinian village to follow her dream of becoming an actress in Europe, leaving behind her mother, grandmother, and seven sisters. Thirty years later, her filmmaker daughter Lina returns with her to the village and questions for the first time her mother’s bold choices, her chosen exile and the way the women in their family influenced both their lives.

خلاصه داستان : پدر و پسری در حومه کازابلانکا با جنایات کوچک برای یک اوباش محلی کنار می آیند. وقتی یک آدم ربایی اشتباه می شود، آنها باید راهی برای دفع جسد پیدا کنند.

A father and son in the suburbs of Casablanca get by on petty crimes for a local mob. When a kidnapping goes wrong, they must find a way to dispose of the body. Trapped in a long night, they have no idea what awaits them.

خلاصه داستان : از آنجایی که کلیسا پیش بینی کرده بود که یک تاریکی آخرالزمانی 80 روزه فرا خواهد رسید، جامعه ای در ترس دائمی از آدم ربایان زندگی کرده است. یک جوان ده ساله که شب کور است هرگز روستا را ترسناک تر از این پیدا نکرده است.

In a village in Meghalaya, northeast India, several young men mysteriously disappear during the night. While the elders accuse passing strangers of kidnapping, the preacher sees the beginnings of an apocalypse lasting 40 days and 40 nights which will plunge the inhabitants of the village into darkness. Seen through the eyes of Kasan, a ten-year-old boy suffering from night blindness, the surrounding forests have never seemed so terrifying.

خلاصه داستان : فیلمی در ژانر داستانی-تاریخی که به کاوش در زندگی زنی مراکشی می‌پردازد که در جستجوی حقیقت، با دروغ‌های موجود در تاریخ خانوادگی خود روبرو می‌شود. او با پیوند دادن گذشته و حال، تصویری روشن از مراکش مدرن ارائه می‌دهد.

On a handmade set re-creating her Casablanca neighborhood, a young Moroccan filmmaker enlists family and friends to help unearth the troubling lies built into her childhood.

خلاصه داستان : داستان در 1970 درباره یک دختر فعال دانشجوئی و پیشخدمت است که مدام مجبور بوده شغلش را عوض کند و الان که به یک کارگردان تبدیل شده است

A film director and her muse who was a student activist in the 1970s, a waitress who keeps changing jobs, an actor and an actress, all live loosely connected to each other by almost invisible threads. The narrative sheds its skin several times to reveal layer upon layer of the complexities that make up the characters' lives.

خلاصه داستان : در این درام خانوادگی، پدر و پسر عجیب و غریبش باید با کمک هم, کارت دعوت عروسی دخترش را طبق رسوم محلی فلسطین به هر مهمان تحویل دهند.

After years abroad in Italy, Shadi returns to his native Nazareth. But this is no spectacular homecoming. He's back somewhat begrudgingly to honour his "wajib" (or duty) to hand out invitations to his sister's wedding with his father. The simmering tension between the two — who are often stuck in a car, more often than not in traffic — builds, exposing the sometimes-comic chasms that exist between men who live in different worlds but share an unshakable bond.

خلاصه داستان : شیلی، 1976. کارمن به خانه ساحلی خود می رود. وقتی کشیش خانواده از او می‌خواهد که از مرد جوانی که مخفیانه به او پناه می‌دهد مراقبت کند، کارمن به سرزمین‌های ناشناخته می‌رود، به دور از زندگی آرامی که به آن عادت کرده است.

Chile, 1976. Carmen heads off to her beach house. When the family priest asks her to take care of a young man he is sheltering in secret, Carmen steps onto unexplored territories, away from the quiet life she is used to.

خلاصه داستان : دو زن که توسط انقلاب‌های سیاسی از هم جدا شده‌اند، از طریق نامه‌ها با هم ارتباط دارند و دوری و آشفتگی را به چالش می کشند.

A semi-fictional correspondence between two women: one goes to Iran in 1979 to topple the Shah; the other experiences the onerous years of Ceaușescu’s Romania. Their biographies run in parallel via images of everyday life and videograms of revolution.