Gladys Joujou

In Burkina Faso, young men look under the earth for gold – and a better future. As a result, 16-year-old Rasmané barely seems like a teenager any more. This mainly observational film follows him into the 100-metre abyss of small-scale mining.

The news is full of images of overcrowded boats and vast tent camps. But how much do we really know about what refugees are going through? Notes on Displacement takes a deep dive by following a single family on a grueling journey, destination Germany. Their fear, disorientation, and solidarity is palpable.

Filmmakers Ibrahim, Suliman, Eltayeb and Manar, close friends for many years, left their motherland in the sixties and seventies to study film abroad and founded the Sudanese Film Group in 1989. After years of distance and exile, they are reunited, hoping to finally make their old dream come true: to bring back cinema to Sudan by reopening the Halfaia Cinema, a dilapidated theater in Khartoum.

Oum Yazan, madre de tres hijos, atrapada dentro de su casa en una ciudad sitiada, convirtió su apartamento en un puerto seguro para su familia y vecinos, tratando de protegerlos de la guerra. Cuando las bombas amenazan con destruir el edificio, los francotiradores convierten los patios en zonas mortales, y los ladrones entran a reclamar sus terribles recompensas, mantener el equilibrio de la rutina dentro de las paredes se convierte en una cuestión de vida o muerte.

Para poder enfrentarse a los fantasmas que le persiguen, el director palestino Raed Andoni reúne a un variado grupo de prisioneros para construir una réplica de Al-Moskobiya, el principal centro de interrogación de Israel, donde estuvo encarcelado a la edad de 18 años. A partir de recuerdos fragmentados, día tras día, dan forma al centro de interrogatorio a través de sus experiencias y las historias que allí vivieron. A medida que las paredes de las celdas se levantan, las emociones se desatan.

The film tells the compelling and moving stories of two remarkable young women living in Gaza and the struggle of Gazans trying to maintain their humanity and humor while hoping to find some sense of normality in a world that is anything but normal.

Everything bad that can happen on the way to a party happens to young Tou on this nighttime trip though Beirut.

Fue muchas cosas para muchas personas: un apuesto rey guerrero lleno de la ambición, el coraje y la arrogancia de la juventud, encabezando a su pequeño ejército contra las gigantescas fuerzas persas… un hijo que buscaba desesperadamente la aprobación de su severo padre, endurecido por las batallas, y que se debatía entre su lealtad a éste y su amor por su madre… un conquistador despiadado que nunca perdió una batalla y empujó a sus soldados a los confines del mundo conocido… un visionario cuyos sueños, hazañas y destino dejaron huella a lo largo de la historia, ayudando a dar forma a nuestro mundo actual. Fue todo eso y más. Fue Alejandro Magno.

Ring of fire keeps a sense of menace to the end, the atmosphere is tense. There is no safe haven, and Beirut of yesterday becomes a chilling image of our world at war today .

Raja is a nineteen year old orphan literally and figuratively scarred by life. Fred is an emotionally bankrupt westerner living amid his plush gardens and palm trees. Set against the backdrop of contemporary Marrakech, Raja is a cross-cultural drama about a wealthy middle-aged Frenchman's complex relationship with this poor local girl. Fred's attempts to seduce Raja, and their mutual attempts at manipulation, are fractured by their gross disparity of income, age and cultural sophistication.

Tangier has an open identity on the Strait of Gibraltar. The border here is a presence: it is water. Opposite, Spain. Candidates for illegal departure flock without interruption to Tangier. The film follows the adventure of a few ready to "burn" their identity, to cross or die...

In Beirut, the destinies of several thirtysomethings (an architect, a tour guide, a mystic, a radio operator, and an exile returned home) collide.

A simple car trip is beset by politically charged tension and a militarized reality.