Lama Sawaya

Jamil and Milad are brothers with very different personalities. Jamil is a get-up-and-go carpenter, following in his father's footsteps. Milad is a sensitive trumpeter and dreamer. As their home country, Syria, sinks further into war, Jamil emigrates first to Beirut and then makes an illegal journey to Sweden. Milad stays in Damascus, but eventually can’t take it any longer and decides to leave to Berlin. Their cousin Wissam records their journey for over five years, bringing back childhood memories while questioning the true meaning of home. The traumatic war in Syria plays a background role in this documentary, which focuses more on the psychological effects of being uprooted and the way the brothers, who had previously hardly travelled, deal with emigration. It draws with humility and admiration the human ability to cope with change, as radical as it can be. Jamil and Milad are achievers, each adapting his own way.

The Moroccan desert is famous for its recurring meteorite falls. Fragments from Heaven tells the story of Mohamed, a nomad who lives with his family in a tent in a remote area of the desert. In order to change his family’s hard living conditions, he decides to go in search of meteorites. It is the story of Abderrahmane as well, a scientist who relies on this meteor debris to pursue his research on the origins of the Earth and life. Both of them, don’t imagine that this quest will take them far beyond simple hunting. Behind those objects, lie the fragments of human complexity.

Жизни трех женщин связаны с неожиданно появившейся коробкой с дневниками, фотографиями и аудиокассетами, которые напоминают о печальном времени в прошлом.

Ливан сегодня – это страна, рядом с которой идет война в Сирии. Бушре четырнадцать лет, она возвращается домой с поля, где собирала картошку, и узнает, что ее детство скоро закончится. Поскольку девочка живет без отца, с одной матерью, та решает продать ее замуж. Бушра боится взрослеть и уезжать из дома.

Ливан сегодня – это страна, рядом с которой идет война в Сирии. Бушре четырнадцать лет, она возвращается домой с поля, где собирала картошку, и узнает, что ее детство скоро закончится. Поскольку девочка живет без отца, с одной матерью, та решает продать ее замуж. Бушра боится взрослеть и уезжать из дома.

A visit to a cosmetic-surgery clinic and the discovery of a lump in his testicle and an abscess in his mouth confront filmmaker Selim Mourad with transience and decay in this unashamedly navel-gazing film essay. ‘Selim from Beirut’ is the last in a long list of names of extinct species he recites during a loveless Grindr fuck.

A visit to a cosmetic-surgery clinic and the discovery of a lump in his testicle and an abscess in his mouth confront filmmaker Selim Mourad with transience and decay in this unashamedly navel-gazing film essay. ‘Selim from Beirut’ is the last in a long list of names of extinct species he recites during a loveless Grindr fuck.

В отдаленной македонской деревне Хатидзе занимается пчеловодством и заботится о своей матери, прикованной к постели. Однажды по соседству селится кочевое семейство, и в безмятежный мир Хатидзе вторгаются рычание двигателей, семеро непоседливых детей и 150 коров.

Палестинская пара очень хочет ребенка, но муж сидит в израильской тюрьме, а половые отношения с заключенными запрещены. Супруги находят нестандартное решение.

Desperate to escape Lebanon and settle in Europe, Lillo buys himself a Syrian passport and is ready to appropriate the Syrian identity to obtain asylum. However, what he might not be ready for yet, is everything that comes along with being a Syrian refugee today.