HEARING
Hearing follows Ninh, a sound technician installing decibel meters across volatile public spaces and fractured homes while grappling with his own separation from his ex-wife, aging mother, and estranged parents. Bringing depth to this narrative, Lê Bảo describes the film best: “Hearing is an anti-love story about people who love one another yet keep their […]
BIG BOYS DON’T CRY
HEAT
Heat is a cinematic exploration of heat as a borderline condition and an intense physical experience. Focusing on the Persian Gulf, one of the hottest regions on Earth, the film captures a vivid panorama of human stories, moods, and survival strategies, offering a powerful glimpse into a possible future for all of us.We meet Sophy, […]
ROTATION
YESTERDAY THE EYE DIDN’T SLEEP
A truck burns in Lebanon’s Bekaa Valley, and a young woman, Gamra, vanishes. Her cousin Yasser goes looking for her, but on the road he strikes a man from a rival clan. The accident threatens to set off a cycle of revenge. To prevent it, his family offers his sisters, Jawaher and Rim, to the […]
BOOMAH
Through the unforced, watchful gaze of its young protagonist, Boomah invites us into an informal world on the edges of Amman. Shaped by an environment that offered little support, Boomah has adopted the rough codes of the streets to get by. As director Zaid Abu Hamdan notes, she is “born into a world where belonging […]
SAFE EXIT
Samaan, is a young Coptic Christian security guard in a residential building in downtown Cairo, he spends his nights writing stories and chasing his dream of publishing his first novel. Beneath his calm surface, Samaan suffers from a chronic PTSD after witnessing his father’s murder, during childhood, by a fanatic terrorist group killing Christians in […]
CITIZEN OSAMA
CITIZEN OSAMA Osama Al-Ashi once photographed Gaza as an artist. In the besieged north, his camera now records bombings, destruction and the lives of people trying to survive them. He has another, more intimate responsibility: his son is born as the war continues, and every assignment takes him away from his wife and child. Finding water, […]
HOLY WOOD DUST
Award-winner director Victor Kossakovsky and superstar botanist Stefano Mancuso take uson an unprecedented journey into the life of trees. What happens to a stump the secondafter a tree is cut down? What does that tree think and feel at that very moment? “Holy WoodDust” is an invitation to radically reimagine the plant kingdom from a […]