Nadia ben Rachid

Aya, a young Ivorian woman in her early thirties, says no on her wedding day, to everyone’s astonishment. After emigrating to Asia, she works in a tea export shop with Cai, a 45-year-old Chinese man. Aya and Cai fall in love but can their affair survive the turmoil of their past and other people’s prejudices?

On August 4th, 2020, the catastrophic explosion at the port of Beirut leaves a large part of the Lebanese capital in ruins. In the midst of the chaos, a troubled film crew face an overwhelming decision: to continue the production of their movie or abandon it? As they face the aftermath of the catastrophe, they are torn between their firm belief in the transformative power of cinema and a deep sense of cynicism about its ability to effect change in a nation plagued by economic turmoil and societal collapse. Dancing on the Edge of a Volcano chronicles their struggles and highlights the crew's resilience as they strive to find meaning and purpose in their work amidst the devastation.

Marked each year by celebrations, Israel’s Independence Day coincides with the commemoration of Al-Nakba (the Catastrophe) — the day Palestinians memorialize their dispossession and displacement. For Tamer (Mahmoud Bakri, a member of the acting dynasty begun by veteran Palestinian performer Mohammad Bakri) and his high-school friends — Safwat (Mohammed Abd El Rahman), Shekel (Mohammad Karaki), and Rida (Ahmed Zaghmouri) — the social and psychological dissonance of being Palestinian in Israel is a daily struggle that is only heightened in the lead-up to Nakba Day.

In a working-class city of Mauritius, old Bolom has disappeared. His son Ronaldo sets out to find him and crosses paths with Ajeya, an Indian immigrant worker. He dreams of a golden boy's life, she flees her condition of modern slave. Together, their nocturnal crossing of the island takes on a new dimension, between a mystical journey and a desire for freedom.

On January 31, 1857, the French writer Gustave Flaubert (1821-80) took his place in the dock for contempt of public morality and religion. The accused, the real one, is, through him, Emma Bovary, heroine with a thousand faces and a thousand desires, guilty without doubt of an unforgivable desire to live.

A coming-of-age political love story set in the final years of British colonial Zanzibar. Denge, a young freedom fighter meets Yasmin, an Indian-Zanzibari woman in the middle of the night as she is on her way to be married. Passion and revolution escalate.

For thirty years, French-Algerian sisters Zorah, Nohra and Djamila have been living in the hope of finding their brother Rheda, abducted by their father, and hidden in newly decolonised Algeria. Their relationship is shaken when Zorah, the eldest sister, decides to write a play based on the traumatising events of their childhood that haunted them their whole life. But when they learn that their father is dying, the three sisters decide to go to Algeria to seize their last opportunity to have him reveal where their brother is. When the past catches up, the three sisters have no choice but to put their differences aside.

사하라 사막 가운데 홀로 선 작은 가게. 그곳엔 커피나 담배를 사고 잠시 머무르는 사람들, 사막을 지나가는 트럭운전사, 그리고 방황하는 영혼들을 반기는 한 여인이 있다. 스치듯 지나가는 사람들과의 찰나 같은 교감의 순간을 꿈처럼 담아낸 한 여인과 공간에 대한 기록.

Extremism slices through a Tunisian family with the realization that their teenage son has become an ISIS fighter.

In focusing his attention on the competitors of Mr Gay Syria, director Ayse Toprak shatters the one-dimensional meaning of “refugee”. Using the pageant as a means of escape from political persecution, the organiser Mahmoud — already given asylum in Berlin — hopes to offer the winner a chance to travel as well as bring international attention to the life-threatening situations faced by LGBT Syrians.

튀니지의 젊은 여성인 마리암은 어느 학생 파티에서 유수프를 알게 되고, 그에게 어딘가 의문스러운 점이 있음에도 결국엔 그를 따라 나서기로 한다. 그리고 바로 그날 밤, 자신의 권리와 존엄을 되찾기 위한 그녀의 지난한 투쟁이 시작된다. 가해자의 편에 서 있는 정의를 구현하는 것이 과연 가능한 일일까?

A study of ennui and female repression within a world rarely seen onscreen - Italy's hermetic nobility.

A film within a film, "Looking for Oum Kulthum" is the plight of an Iranian woman artist/filmmaker living in exile, as she embarks on capturing the life and art of the legendary female singer of the Arab world, Oum Kulthum. Through her difficult journey, not unlike her heroine's, she has to face the struggles, sacrifices and the price that a woman has to pay if she dares to cross the lines of a conservative male dominated society.

‘마담 B'는 생계를 위해 중국으로 월경한 북한 여성이다. 하지만 그녀는 브로커에게 속았고 가난한 중국 농부 ‘진씨’에게 팔려가고 만다. 그렇게 흐른 10여년. ‘마담 B'는 월경 전에도 남편이 있었지만 어째선지 지금 생활이 더 행복한 듯하다. ‘진씨’는 북한의 가족들을 빼내기 위해 브로커가 된 그녀를 이해하는 사람, 있는 그대로의 그녀를 사랑하는 배필이 되어 버렸다. ‘마담 B'는 기어코 가족들을 탈북 시키는 데 성공하고, 가족들을 따라 얼마간의 한국행을 택한다. 언젠가, 가족들을 설득시켜 ‘진씨’와 진짜 부부가 될 수 있기를 기대하면서... 이름을 밝힐 수 없는 그녀 ‘마담 B'. 과연 그녀의 사랑은 이루어질 수 있을까?

Beirut, at night. Said begins his first shift as a security guard. His orders are clear: watch a bridge. However, in the heart of “the city that never dies”, the exercise is going to be more complicated than it seems.

Four tragicomic interconnected stories about how devoted Muslim men and women are trying to manage their love life and desires without breaking any religious rules.

이슬람 근본주의자들이 장악한 말리의 팀북투. 핍박받는 주민들과 떨어져, 키단은 근처 사막에서 아내 사티마와 딸 토야, 양치기 이산과 평화롭게 산다. 그러던 중 그는 자신의 소를 죽인 어부를 뜻하지 않게 살해하면서 근본주의자들이 지휘하는 법정에 출두하게 된다.

A documentary about the making of The Turin Horse, the last film directed by Hungarian master Béla Tarr.

오토바이에 탄 한 남자가 손에 면도날을 들고 튀니스의 거리를 배회하며 여성의 엉덩이를 벤다. 사람들은 그를 “샬라(Challat),” 즉, 타인을 해치는 사람이라는 뜻의 “슬래셔(Slasher)”라 부르고, 그의 이름만 들어도 매혹과 공포를 동시에 느낀다. 그는 외로운 범죄자인가? 도시의 전설인가? 아니면 정치단체나 종교광신도의 산물인가? 그 일이 있고 난지 10년, ‘아랍의 봄’의 여파 속에서, 어느 젊고 고집 센 여성감독이 샬라의 정체와 진실을 파헤치기 시작한다.

"They fight: Our breasts, our weapons" - Born in Ukraine in 2008 in the wake of the "Orange Revolution", the feminist movement Femen fights for democracy, freedom of the press, women's rights, and against corruption, prostitution, sexism, racism, poverty and religions. Her activists quickly caught the attention of the media by shocking actions carried bare toes, the body covered with slogans. In 2012, at the creation of Femen France, Caroline Fourest followed their actions. They notably affirmed their support for "Marriage for All" by protesting on November 18, 2012, during the demonstration organized by the Civitas Institute against the bill, provoking sharp clashes. An episode from "Infrarouge XXL".

1975, Mozambique’s rebirth as an independent nation. The young revolution sweeps the streets of Maputo clean of prostitutes and bad habits. The prostitutes are sent to re-education camps deep in the countryside, where they will become “new women” – loyal comrades of the new nation. As the “clean-up” takes place, Margarida, a 16-year-old girl from the countryside, is mistakenly taken. Drawing on the stories of real women, Virgin Margarida is a dramatic exploration of a little known chapter in Mozambique’s history. A chapter that made no allowance for individuality and enshrined male domination as an ideology.

Caught in the stranglehold of debt and structural adjustment, Africa is fighting for its survival. In the face of disaster, representatives of African society bring an action against international financial institutions. The trial takes place in Bamako, in the yard of a house, among its inhabitants.

The meeting of two worlds that never met. One of poetry and freedom, and the other of silence and darkness. A story that begins in a maximum security prison in Sweden where a young actor, Jan Jönson, decides to stage " Waiting for Godot "with five prisoners as actors.

Before immigrating to the West, Abdallah travels to the coastal city of Nouadhibou, Mauritania, to visit his mother. Although he grew up there, Abdallah feels anything but at home in his old neighborhood: He can no longer speak the local dialect, and he wears western clothes that immediately cast him as an outsider. But, as Abdallah spends time with a young boy and an elderly electrician, he can't help but feel a sense of loss for the life he's abandoning

This short documentary from 2002, written by Jacques Tati scholar Stéphane Goudet and featuring rare archival footage, explores the genesis of the director’s hugely ambitious 1967 film production.

This short documentary from 2002, written by Jacques Tati scholar Stéphane Goudet and featuring rare archival footage, explores the genesis of the director’s hugely ambitious 1967 film production.

The story of an immigrant woman struggling against old world traditions. Zouina leaves her homeland with her three children to join her husband in France, where he's been living for the past ten years. In a land and culture foreign to her, Zouina struggles against her mother-in-law's tyrannical hand and her husband's distrustful bitterness in an attempt to adjust to her life in exile.

La Vie Sur Terre (Life on Earth) is a 1998 Malian comedy/drama film written and directed by, and starring Abderrahmane Sissako. It is set in the village of Sokolo and depicts rural life on the eve of the 21st century. Runtime is 61 minutes.The film earned Sissako awards at the Fribourg International Film Festival, the Ouagadougou Panafrican Film and Television Festival and the San Francisco International Film Festival.