2021

On his way to attend a wedding with his adolescent son Waleed, a middle-aged father, Nasser, receives news of his father’s serious illness. He turns in the direction of his rural hometown south of Riyadh.

The documentary takes viewers to explore the life of immigrants from North African countries in European prisons, and notably in a highly protected detention center in Verona, Italy.

Malek, the father of the filmmaker, told her nothing about his childhood in Algeria. Several years later, he revealed his story in a written script. The father and daughter finally made the journey to Mansourah, his home village: to see his house again, to meet other men who have experienced the same tearing.

In 1987, Lina Alabed’s Palestinian father, Ibrahim, set off on a mission he never came back from. He was a member of the Abu Nidal group, also known as “The Revolutionary Council”.

“Huda” is a short social commentary, set in Jordan, on the idea of getting married, no matter what. The film opens with Huda, getting dressed for her wedding at home, helped by her sister, Mariam.

Set in Baghdad in 2006, Haifa Street is one of the most dangerous places suffering from the civil war and violence that have plagued the city.

Gaza takes us to a unique place beyond the reach of television news reports to reveal a world rich with eloquent and resilient characters, offering us a cinematic and enriching portrait of a people attempting to lead meaningful lives against the rubble of perennial conflict.

Four destinies of young people, a district, a decade, embark us on a journey made of going and return between two eras: 2007-2017, from dictatorship to democracy. 

In a post-apocalyptic world, an old and a young man escape from slavery to set themselves on a journey through the desert. The former looks for truffles, and the latter searches for gold.