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• Under the fig trees

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  In Tunisia, young women and men working the harvest develop new feelings, flirt, try to understand each other, find - and flee - deeper connections. Erige Sehiri is a French-Tunisian director and producer.

• Ava

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  Living with her well-to-do parents in Tehran, Ava is a bright and focused teen whose concerns - friendships, music, social status, academic performance - resemble that of nearly any teenager. When Ava's mistrustful and overprotective…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Theeb

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  Arabia, 1916. A young Bedouin boy named Theeb ("Wolf") ventures on a treacherous journey across the desert, encountering mercenaries, revolutionaries and raiders as he tries to survive and live up to the name his father gave him. Naji Abu…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Edward Said - Two Films

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  Two films that provide a uniquely comprehensive, intimate and moving portrait of one of the great and lasting thinkers of the 20th century. Edward Said was a Palestinian-American academic, literary critic, and activist.

• You will die at twenty

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  A young man growing up in a small Sudanese village attempts to live his life while grappling with a holy man's prediction that he will die when he turns twenty. Amjad Abu Alala is a Sudanese film director, screenwriter and producer.

• Last men in Aleppo

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  During the Syrian civil war, members of the volunteer group White Helmets work to rescue survivors and offer aid to the wounded after military strikes. Feras Fayyad is a Syrian film director, producer, and writer.

• The perfect candidate

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  A determined young Saudi doctor's surprise run for office in the local city elections sweeps up her family and community as they struggle to accept their town's first female candidate. Haifaa Al-Mansour is a Saudi Arabian film director.

• Until The Birds Return

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  Algeria today. Past and present collide in the lives of a newly wealthy property developer, an ambitious neurologist impeded by wartime wrongdoings, and a young woman torn between the path of reason and sentiment. Karim Moussaoui is an…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Five broken cameras

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  Beginning in 2005, Palestinian Emad Burnet records his village's resistance to the encroachment of Israeli settlements. Emad Burnat is a Palestinian farmer and filmmaker, and Guy Davidi is an Israeli documentary filmmaker.

• Lost birds

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  In 1915 in an Armenian village, Bedo and Maryam return from a secret place to find and empty house and deserted village. Ela Alyamac is a Turkish film director, producer, screenwriter, and editor, and Aren Perdeci is an Armenian filmmaker.

• Les chevaux de Dieu

  Horses of God

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  After a stint in prison, a young man becomes a violent Islamic fundamentalist and recruits his younger brother and the youth's best friend to his cause. Nabil Ayouch is a Franco-Moroccan television and film director, producer, and writer.

• Distant constellation

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  The inhabitants of a Turkish retirement home confront the true nature of time. Shevaun Mizrahi is a Turkish-American documentary filmmaker.

• When I Saw You

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  In a refugee camp of tens of thousands of people, a young boy and his mother make an attempt to cross the border from Palestine to Jordan. Annemarie Jacir is a Palestinian filmmaker, writer, and producer.

• Mariam

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  Following the mysterious disappearance of her husband from their remote village in Kazakhstan, Mariam must look after their four children and manage to survive through the harsh winter. Sharipa Urazbayeva is a Kazakh director and producer.

• Resistance Is Life

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  An 8-year-old girl who escaped from a village in Kobane, Syria, lives in an overcrowded refugee camp on the edge of the Turkish-Syrian border. She joins the adults who pray and sing on the border, watching the smoke rise above their…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Sibel

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  Rejected by her fellow villagers, a mute woman relentlessly hunts down a wolf that is said to be prowling in the neighbouring forest, sparking off fears and fantasies among the village women. Çagla Zencirci is a Turkish director and writer.

• جدى نىدر از سمن

  ا سپرتن /

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  When Nader, a bank employee, refuses to leave Tehran, his wife, Simin, sues for divorce in the hope that she can make a better life for their young daughter abroad. Asghar Farhadi is an Iranian film director and screenwriter.