Alex Bakri

Film en partie autobiographique, construit en quatre épisodes marquants de la vie d’une famille, ma famille, de 1948 au temps récent. “Ce film est inspiré des carnets de mon père lorsqu’il était un combattant résistant en 1948, et des lettres de ma mère aux membres de sa famille qui furent forcés de quitter le pays. Mêlant mes souvenirs intimes d’eux et avec eux, le film dresse le portrait de la vie quotidienne de ces palestiniens qui sont restés vivre sur leurs terres natales et ont été étiquetés “Arabes- Israéliens”, vivant comme une minorité dans leur propre pays.” Elia Suleiman

Sami vit à Jérusalem avec sa femme Mira et leur fils Adam. Ses parents rêvent de le voir revenir auprès d’eux, dans le village arabe où il a grandi. Le mariage de son frère l’oblige à y retourner le temps d’une soirée.... Mais pendant la nuit, sans aucune explication, le village est encerclé par l'armée israélienne et Sami ne peut plus repartir. Très vite, le chaos s'installe et les esprits s'échauffent. Coupé du monde extérieur, pris au piège dans une situation absurde, Sami voit tous ses repères vaciller : son couple, sa famille et sa vision du monde.

Aishe, after losing her husband, suddenly became the sole provider for her three children. She participates in several workshops for emancipation of Muslim women and decides to pursue a career as a female plumber to ease her financial situation. WATERPROOF gives a humorous insight into the world of a plumber and her colleagues who try to stand their ground armed only with pliers and screwdrivers. They are the first femal plumbers in Jordan - one of the driest countries in the world.

In a village outside of Beirut, amidst scrap metal, chickens and goats, the quiet Fouad runs a mechanic’s garage with a detached but soothing presence. His customers, both old and young, are invited to sit and drink coffee while they wait for their vehicles to be repaired. In these moments of stillness, the garage becomes a haven for people to express their growing despair amidst the economic collapse that surrounds them. No jobs. Sleepless nights. The burden of school tuition. No one is safe. As the darkness closes in, Fouad must undertake a deeply symbolic, transcendent journey through his own psyche: a search for the other side.

In this documentary, we are invited to the mind of the elderly Hiam, a Palestinian woman from Nazareth. The mundanity of everyday life gives us a few sentimental glimpses of Hiam's past and present through the eyes of the filmmaker Juna Suleiman, her granddaughter.

In this documentary, we are invited to the mind of the elderly Hiam, a Palestinian woman from Nazareth. The mundanity of everyday life gives us a few sentimental glimpses of Hiam's past and present through the eyes of the filmmaker Juna Suleiman, her granddaughter.

The harvest is in, but the abnormal drought is causing water issues in the village. A play is held annually and this year, the title is "Departures".

People of the Wasteland is an experimental short-film, in a first-person point of view, depicting the clashes of Syrian fighters in the front line. In the chaos of war, the lines between right and wrong become blurred. This exclusive Go-Pro footage from inside war aims to remind us that in a territory where the landscape and the people are ephemeral because of war, only the camera can remain alive, and only the image of a certain moment can remain eternal.

A film crew retraces the path of a refugee's journey. They hope to reconstruct a memory landscape, but are instead confronted by the artifice of documentary. Bystanders interject with their opinions on how to make better use of their time. What is a story, and whose right is it to tell?

Milo, a strong-willed feminist, discovers the long-sought power to wander around freely in Baghdad by dressing in her brother’s clothes. Khalili, a young and ambitious filmmaker, realises that his camera can be the strongest of all weapons.