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29 Jan – 8 Feb 2026

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  • Local Copy

    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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  • Rice City

    Beautifully crafted suspense in this stylish, black-and-white experimental Egyptian short that features a strong score by Nahla Mattar.
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  • Flint Mountains

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

    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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  • They Were Here

    Homage to the old steam engine plant of Damascus, once a symbol of optimistic belief in development, but now a deserted and desolate place.
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  • Two Cities and a Prison

    An experimental theatre project is touring Syria. Through interactive plays, they investigate violence in its different forms and question traditional
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  • The Sun’s Incubator

    Life of a young family as they witness revolutions and birth, misery and hope, interlinked by the will to achieve change.
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  • I Am the One Who Carries Flowers to Her Grave

    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/Out of the Room

    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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  • Dolls: A Woman from Damascus

    By editing together conversations with Syrian housewife Manal and the marketing manager of the Arab Barbie doll Fulla, director Diana El Jeiroudi outl
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