100 Cries of Terror
Mexican feature film
Communion
Life under lockdown: Sara works from home, helping people distressed by COVID-19. Her husband Kais needs constant antipsychotic medication but has run out of his supply. Outside, the city is like a ghost town. How will they survive this confinement without sinking into depression? Can their marriage ever return to normal? Director Nejib Belkadhi also plays Kais, giving a raw, complex and emotionally charged performance in a situation we can all recognise.
Connection Lost
In a society divided by the rise of a movement that declares itself against the digital age, a young man has to decide between betraying his beliefs or forever losing Flor, his one true love
COVIDa the 19th
Surviving the quarantine and showcasing another perspective of lifestyle during the COVID-19 pandemic, the film highlights the subsequent lifestyle changes that affected the public sphere and familial life, and how these changes eventually became for the best.
Do It For Her
A young Muslim finds himself succumb to the world of gambling. As his addiction starts to run deeper, it begins to threaten everything that has ever mattered to him.
El a kezekkel a Papámtól!
Dorka’s life as the little heroine of the story takes an unexpected turn when her widowed father announces that she is getting married. The vivid little girl uses every means to protect her father from the dangers of love, and during her adventures she also learns the secrets of friendship and magic.
Elisapie : faire face à la musique
In her new documentary, Elisapie Isaac takes us on a visual and musical jaunt across the country, meeting the people who inspired the songs on her latest album, The Ballad of the Runaway Girl.
Extracurricular
Nour is a 13-year-old orphan living in the countryside in the early 1980s. He is smart, but is also a compulsive liar with vision problems and wears eyeglasses that don't quite remedy his weakened eyesight. To gain the respect of his fellow classmates, he ventures inside a haunted house right in front of the school, one that all the kids are afraid to enter. Inside, he finds a solitary old man who's hiding from the world. A friendship and apprenticeship are born between the boy and the old man, initiating a journey of self-discovery that lies at the very heart of this light-hearted drama.
Fay's Palette
Fay lives in a cloistered apartment, which she can’t leave because her only obstacle to the outside world is her brother. She expresses all of her obsessions through painting, but when she orders a new paint palette, matters get complicated. Directed by Anas Ba-Tahaf and produced by Producer-Actor Hisham Fageeh, who also plays the protagonist along with Sofia Asir, Fay’s Palette is a robust film full of vitality, plunging us into an unspoken world that reveals, through a peculiar incident, familiar obsessions and repressed frustrations that we share with Fay.