Amidst escalating threats and societal uproar, a brave Muslim woman relentlessly pursues justice, advocating for a prog…
Explores the power of community dance as a platform for personal expressions of marginalization and acceptance.
This short film follows four young immigrants from diverse backgrounds as they navigate love, friendship, and cultural …
Five hopeful migrants, trapped in Ceuta, a Spanish outpost in Morocco, grapple with mounting anxiety as they stand just…
This Documentary presents a profound tale of friendship that defies borders and conflict, as unlikely comrades from Gaz…
In 2005, a suicide bomber walked into Ashraf's wedding, killing 27 people. Now he is on a quest to confront terrorism a…
From Mumbai to Quebec, this eye-opening documentary takes us around the world to show us how people on the margins are …
Set in the suburbs of Cairo, this short film follows a man dedicated to pigeon fighting. His dilemma lies between embra…
At the border between Italy and France, migrants hope to cross northwards with the help of the locals. In the meantime,…
In this hybrid short film, visual artist Michael Poetschko films a group of young people who turn an abandoned office i…
On the eve of the COVID-19 outbreak, Egyptian filmmaker Amr Bayoumi films a tree that begins to invade his balcony. His…
When his piano is destroyed in the Syrian war, pianist and composer Ayham Ahmad continues to make music of resistance n…
This documentary takes us into the reality of Libya after the revolution that overthrew Gaddafi, through the life and w…
Egyptian director Amr Bayoumi revisits his country's tumultuous contemporary past through his own family traces as the …
A woman living in downtown Cairo tries to support her family by selling potato chips. Known as "Potatoes lady" she star…
Filmmaker Zeinah AlQahwaji condenses several years of filmed visits to her parents' home in Syria, locked in this house…
Using videos that have gone viral on social networks about the conflicts in their countries of origin, migrants based i…
A team of teenagers from the Czech Republic visits Morocco to play friendly ice hockey matches in that country. And whi…
Funny and absurd, yet profoundly realistic. This documentary follows a group of Middle Eastern immigrants as they try t…
Poetic, contemplative and testimonial, this documentary gathers the impressions of hundreds of Central African men, wom…
Through her father's daily life in Mansourah, Algeria, filmmaker Dorothée-Myriam Kellou unearths the wound of a painful…
Seen from the point of view of a 3-year-old girl, this documentary follows the tortuous migration journey of a refugee …
This gem from the Rotterdam Film Festival is a chronicle-essay ... or rather a kind of diary, as philosophical as it is…
Amir Awad, from the Syrian National Team for wrestling, introduces us to the Syrian Sports Academy, a place that trains…
Brazilian filmmaker Octavio Cury travels to Syria and obtains a book written by his great-grandfather, an icon of Arab …
This documentary was conceived to enter the mind of an elderly Armenian suffering from Parkinson's. Through Cinema, we …
After being diagnosed with cancer, and amid the tension of the political crisis, a Syrian man begins a family explorati…
In the midst of a severe crisis, Lebanon is the stage of a battle between the people and its political class. This shor…
Premiered at the Venice Film Festival, this film documents the popular insurgency that overthrew the Mubarak regime in …
In Vienna, a group of immigrants from the Middle East try to integrate into the Austrian society in the midst of the ho…
The effects of the Syrian conflict are being felt by the inhabitants across the ceasefire line in the Israeli Occupied …
Marah, Noor, Mona and Betty have something in common, the love for speed and for their country. In this action-driven d…
A series of impressive photographs of Algerian landscapes and the voices of its inhabitants reflect the traces of the A…
In this short film a kite surfer based in Qatar tells us about his passion for a sport in which the waves and the wind …
Five years after the Egyptian revolution that overthrew the Mubarak regime, four young Egyptians look back on that even…
Filmed with infrared cameras, this short film documents a group of refugees planning to cross to Great Britain through …
This life-inspiring documentary follows four children who live in Zaatari, a small city of refugees, who dream of a bet…
With direct access from the inside of the war against ISIS, this documentary follows two leaders of a group of Shiite v…
A war without history can only be reconstructed through the statements of those who fought in it. This gripping documen…
Zena and Raad escaped from Aleppo, the epicenter of the war in Syria, and now live in Germany with their little daughte…
This short film is a delicate gaze at a religious and culinary rite in a town in Iran, where the believers prepare a me…
In this episode of UN In Action we follow a Syrian Family that fled Homs, their home city, after the war erupted, and n…
Through an almost theatrical approach, this short film reconstructs postcards observed in the commercially vibrant bord…
Through the life story of his grandmother, a filmmaker explores his roots in Algeria while portraying the universe of t…
This short film is a portrait of Didou, an 88-year-old Algerian man who preserves the memory of his deceased wife on th…
In Roshmia, the last natural valley in Haifa, an elderly Palestinian couple prepares a final standoff with the local au…
This observational documentary captures the conversations, confidences and emotionally charged moments of migrants in c…
This documentary takes us to several countries to show us how Muslim men around the world are challenging the tradition…
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