Middle east

A harrowing drama about patriarchal justice in Iran – awarded the German Film Prize in Gold.

Guy and Dan have a hot sex date. But the night of excess reveals more than just the monsters in Guy's head...

A Kurdish girl is looking for water after her village has been cut off from supply.

Amidst censorship, an Iranian woman uses her camera to create an archive of hope, memory, and female strength.

The survival story of three women in Jordan, who escaped near fatal male violence and got stuck at the blurred line between life and death.

In this touching Iranian drama, Fereshteh has to find a place to hide her newborn, illegitimate daughter.

Grimme Award-winning war drama about a German-Kurdish Bundeswehr soldier who gets caught between the fronts in Iraq.

Baghdad 2006: In the midst of the bloody conflicts, people try to live their day-to-day life.

A multi-faceted portrait of a Kurdish childhood under the shadow of the Assad dictatorship, spiced with a dash of humor and satire.

Between oversalted soup and grumbling students, three chefs and a kitchen hand toil in the small university cafeteria in Tehran.

Girlboss Hanna hopes to get a career boost in Israel, but volunteering holds a few surprises for her.

Two Palestinian women become the pawns of both the Israeli and Palestinian security authorities.

A love letter to the unique magic of solo traveling.

Between the war's frontlines to the dance floor, a Kurdish woman's journey defies tradition and embraces liberation.

A riveting Iranian drama set in a unique kindergarten in Tehran, where the usual gender segregation of schools is yet to begin.

For a young Kurdish woman, the entrance exam for university will decide, if she can live freely or has to submit to the men in her life.

This poignant and thought-provoking documentary offers a unique and deeply moving insight into the lives of Palestinian refugees in Lebanon.

While Wissam fights for his love, political tensions rise and the Israeli army invades Lebanon.

A poignant tale of lost innocence, young Dib navigates the tumultuous landscape of 1950s Damascus following his father's death.

This poignant coming-of-age drama that delves into the complexities of Palestinian identity under Israeli rule.

Acclaimed Lebanese director Simon El Habre paints a vivid portrait of Beirut post-Civil War, highlighting the impact of the 2020 port explosion.

Dreamlike, Israeli indie film about a woman whose nightmare turns into a hopeful sense of autonomy.

Andrei, a Russian speaking immigrant living in Ashdod, is balancing work, bills, taking care of his kid sister Chris, and rehearsing for a concert.

Three young Israelis are forced to serve in the military police at a checkpoint despite their refusal to do military service.

Intensely charged in political terms, HOTLINE is not merely revealing but downright shocking in what it conveys about Israel’s policies on outsiders.

Israeli filmmaker Meni Yaesh tackles the complex yet always renewable thematic triangle of religion, violence, and sex.

Menachem, a widowed father is a former rock singer and has left everything behind to become part of the ultra orthodox jewish community.

An intensely intimate profile of a transgender woman and her wife and children, that refuses to sugarcoat the challenges faced by the family.

Israel's Official Submission to the 95th Academy Awards is a heartwarming journey of unlikely friendships and empowering conversations.

The conflicts for water in Jordan’s deserts already happening today gives a pretaste of future disputes.

A powerful film about the struggle of a naive boy with good intentions in the harsh environment of Irans drug stronghold on the Island of Hormuz.

Slavery has never ended. It has just assumed other names and ways to conceal itself.

A dazzling coming-of-age film that interweaves a pivotal moment in Tunisian history with an 18-year-old's struggle for freedom.

Heartwarming doc about the transformative experience of an all-woman theater group touring rural Turkey performing Shakespeare’s King Lear.

The merciless fighting between militias in the region around Mount Lebanon ended in reprisals against civilians.

This riveting feature tells the story of a young woman returning home to a crisis-ridden country and family she barley recognizes.

Taghi, an Afghan refugees living in Iran, faces the choice of staying in a country where he is not welcome or returning to a country he barely knows.

This bitingly funny episodic film subtly interweaves the conflicts of a Palestinian family with the political realities of the Middle East conflict.

Filmmaker Hasan is seething with rage. He is banned from working and a serial killer is killing all the other directors in town. All except Hasan.

This film follows a group of Aramaic Christians as they return to their ancestral homeland of southeastern Turkey.

Homs, Syria in 2014: A short ceasefire, time to flee. That day, Yusuf and his nephew wanted to leave Homs, But things turned out differently.

This gripping thriller about Baghdad's most dangerous street illuminates the political motivations and private entanglements of those involved.

Five years after the fall of the Taliban in Afghanistan the country's future was uncertain but buoyed by cautious optimism.

In 2015, at the height of the Syrian war, Raf’aa, a mother of two, made the journey alone to Germany to secure asylum for her family.

The director of a psychiatric clinic near Tehran gives patients the opportunity to marry each other, in a model project.

Like all Israeli youths, Atalya is obligated to become a soldier. But unlike most, she questions the practices of her country’s military.

Jerusalem-born trauma expert Ofra Bloch confronts her personal demons in a journey where she meets with people she was taught to hate.

A director and his partner are forced into a long distance relationship thanks to strict European visa laws between Italy and Lebanon.

Shadi returns to Nazareth to fulfill his duty (WAJIB) as a big brother, where simmering conflicts await.

The story of Saddam Hussein's personal cameraman exposes the absurdities and brutality of the Iraqi dictators regime.

After an eco-disaster, the abandoned nuclear reactor under the biblical city of Bethlehem was transformed into a huge orchard.

In northern Syria, an anti-hierarchical, multi-ethnic model of democracy was launched in the Rojava region under the leadership of the Kurds.

Omar, a photographer, lost his male lover in an explosion. He turns his experience of loss into an art project.

Panoptic is a letter from a daughter to her deceased father in an attempt to reconcile with Lebanon’s turbulent past.

When a local fisherman claims to have seen a mermaid, tourists flock to the beach at Kiryat Yam, saving teenaged Lana from yet another boring summer.

30 years after the end of the civil war in Lebanon, over 17,000 people who disappeared are still unaccounted for. An unnamed artist searches them.

Horrifying videos of the Syrian civil war, taken with mobile phones in the besieged city of Homs, show the horrors of war unfiltered.

Warm-hearted animated film tells the story of a girl in the permanent refugee camp Burj el Barajneh, Lebanon and her family history.

A gay couple from Tel Aviv wants to become parents, ideally twins with an American surrogate mother, one child from each father.

Surfing in this film is a metaphor and expression of freedom. Young people in Gaza have the same desires as anyone else.

In one of Jerusalems oldest tattoo studio Jews, Christians, Muslims and atheists get their tattoos done.

A Palestinian director uses the story of legendary Syrian entertainer ASMAHAN to offer a fresh take on Middle Eastern history and the Arab Spring.

Ali Alavi is a passionate hunter who was recently released from prison. His wife and daughter get shot during a demonstration. Despite his stigma as a ...

Tel Aviv, Jaffa, Ajami. Here is the Babel of the present, life a permanent state of emergency. Enemies who have been enemies for a long time live here ...

15 minutes of standing ovations in Cannes for the Afghan “Steven Spielberg” Salim Shaheen – a film about dreams in the midst of war and hope.

The story of an extraordinary alliance of rival soccer fans in Istanbul during the Gezi protests in 2013.

Heartbreaking drama about the Armenian genocide at the beginning of the 20th century.

Two brothers go astray: they want to use a gun to solve their family's financial problems, not realizing the consequences of their actions.

Jowan Safadi, an Israeli Palestinian and musician from the Middle East, is under investigation by Israeli police for "inciting terrorism".

The lives of three strong-willed women and a young musician cross paths in Tehran’s schizophrenic society where sex, adultery, corruption, prostitution ...

When Eyal finishes the week of mourning for his late son, his wife urges him to return to their routine but instead he gets high with a young neighbor. This ...

In eastern Turkey, a young Kurdish woman is forced to make a weapon disappear.

Philippe, who has just been released from prison, meets Avdal, a Kurd who is looking for an Iraqi war criminal.

In, part one of this sci-fi triology, a vertical solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict has been found.

Jaffa, home of the world famous cakes, is a bustling metropolis and focus of this fascinating documentary.

The documentary SHALOM SALAM tells about the conflict in the Middle East through the eyes of Israeli and Palestinian children.

Kurdwin Ayub, a member of the European Film Academy, tries to find out why his father falls into euphoria at the very mention of Kurdistan.

A glass van with a mounted camera drives through the streets of Beirut and explores the city from behind the glass.

Simon El Habre's documentary, a follow up to “One Man Village” is a study of the bygone days of the once bustling port of Beirut.

This documentary chronicles the life of writer Angelika Schrobsdorff's family, who fled from Berlin and Nazi Germany to Bulgaria in 1939.

In a temporal twist, this movie tells the story of an intervention into the future perception of a territory’s political history.

Black-comedy short SOLOMON'S STONE, directed by Ramzi Maqdisi, is adapted from the novel Blue Light by Hussein Barghouty.

“When the bombs fell, the first thing we did was run away. It was not until later that we realized we had not looked back.”

This is both a documentary and an attempt at self-therapy for Lebanese director Bassem Fayad and his dog 'Zen'.

For little Mahdi, the Palestinian refugee camp Ain El-Helwe is a huge adventure playground. Unlike for most of his family.

A SPACE EXODUS is the first part of Larissa Sansour’s Palestinian science fiction trilogy.

Simon discovers that a teacher has hung herself in the classroom. Bachir Lazhar, 55, Algerian immigrant is the substitute teacher. The class goes through ...

Chaja Florentin and Mimi Frons have been best friends for 83 years. Born and raised in Berlin, they fled to Palestine with their families in 1934 to escape ...

Beckermann's subjects offer a dramatic range of candid opinions about Arab-Jewish relations, immigration, the intifada, religion, and the economy.

Although they have lost everything through their flight, the Jesidesses Hedil and Naam fight for a dignified life for their families.

In this satirical journey two Palestinian brothers from Jerusalem want to fulfill their father's last wish to be buried in Palestinian ground.

A play about the Holocaust is being staged in Israel. The actors are descendants of Holocaust survivors and Palestinian. A documentation about the coexistance ...

Naima, a doctor, Amina, a graduate, and Leila, a young student, are pursuing their individual routes to an independent life when their paths cross.