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Overview of films

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  Dreams of Hind and Camilia (Fragment)

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  Mohammed Khan | 5' | Egypt | None

  Two women attempt to break free from the brutality and hopelessness of their impoverished lives in Cairo.
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  Dreams of the City

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  Mohamad Malas | 120' | Syria | None

  A young widow and her two sons arrive in Damascus, only to find cruelty and rejection from her father. Dib, the eldest of the boys,…
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  E.D.L.

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  Siska | 21' | Lebanon | International premiere

  A video portrait of Lebanon’s national electricity building as an homage to a modernist project, linked to the very construction of Lebanon’s modern s
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  Flint Mountains

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  Nidal Hassan | 46' | Syria | None

  What does a sculptor need? A small village surrounded by rocks. Friends. And nature as the greatest artist of all.
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  Foam

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  Reem Ali | 46' | Syria | None

  A Syrian family struggles with memories of imprisonment and their care for a mentally disabled member while preparing their emigration to Canada.
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  I Am the One Who Carries Flowers to Her Grave

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  Hala Alabdalla, Ammar Al- Beik | 105' | France | None

  Memories of shared political activism, dreams and ideals converge in an intimate portrait of four women. All have changed through harsh experiences of
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  In the Last Days of the City (Trailer)

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  Tamer El Said | 3' | Egypt | International premiere

  The lives of a group of friends from Egypt, Iraq and Lebanon have been shaped by their cities of birth and the instability of their…
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  In/Out of the Room

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  Dina Hamza | 52' | Egypt | None

  In Dina Hamza’s latest documentary In/Out of the Room, a rare story unfolds of the life of a man whose job is to take lives.
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  Local Copy

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  Islam Kamal | 20' | Egypt | International premiere

  We follow four young people through Alexandria en route to the square outside the Bibliotheca Alexandrina. It slowly becomes apparent what this meetin
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  Master-Slave Dialectic

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  Paul Hage Boutros | 7' | Lebanon | International premiere

  Who is the boss? The director, thinking and self-assured or the camera, a mindless machine? A power struggle with unexpected results.
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  Maydoum

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  Omar Robert Hamilton | 13' | Egypt | None

  A poised and elegantly executed ensemble piece of understated, emotionally-nuanced brilliance. Second short film by independent filmmaker Omar Robert
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  Neon Lamp

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  Emad Maher | 26' | Egypt | International premiere

  An exceptional debut in which Maher – who spent two years working on this project – gave sound an important role in the telling of…