Cynthia Zaven

In Wendy Bednarz’s feature debut, an Indian woman living in the Arabian Gulf embarks on a search for truth and accountability after her daughter is left to die on a school bus in the sweltering desert heat.

아르메니아의 시골마을 리츠크에는 여성, 어린이, 그리고 노인만이 거주한다. 마을 남자들은 일년 중 9개월을 일자리를 찾아 러시아로 건너가 살기 때문. 남편 또는 가족의 부재, 그리고 오랜 기다림과 외로움에도 불구하고 여성들은 자신의 자리를 지킨다. 영화는 그들의 삶을 따라가며 은밀한 내면의 소리를 담아내고, 좌절, 기쁨과 욕망의 순간들과 함께 한다.

After surviving a car crash in the middle of Lebanon's isolated Beqaa Valley, an amnesiac man finds himself held hostage on a local farm that doubles as an illegal drug-production facility.

Hasan Hourani, a Palestinian poet and illustrator, died aged 29 in Jaffa while trying to rescue his nephew from the sea. Shortly after, the filmmaker Mais Darwazah discovers his drawings and poems and feels drawn to Hourani's world— a universe outside space and time; a place of wonder, discovery, and freedom. Motivated by this kinship, Darwazah embarks on a journey to her homeland, Palestine: a place she has never known.

Each morning Beirut awakens to a new murder seemingly committed by a serial killer, with victims found emptied of their blood. At the same time a doctor, Khalil, begins to experience strange symptoms that destabilise him and transform his life. A connection slowly emerges that seems to link Khalil to these victims. Salhab’s body of films have come to narrate the state of Lebanon – and Beirut in particular – during and after the civil war, and this film is no exception.