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29 Jan – 8 Feb 2026

Overview of articles

  • Still Lives

    Still life awakens in this experimental stop motion vignette about the mundane challenges of modernity.
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  • My Brother, My Brother

    Twin brothers trace their bond from their mother’s womb to the moment they’re heartbreakingly separated.
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  • Eid

    A universal, layered story of oppression, self-reclamation and the search for freedom set within the indigenous Bedouin culture.
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  • Warsha

    Available on Festival Scope Pro from 26 January 9:00 CET to 14 February 9:00 CET
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  • Dead Dog

    A long-estranged Lebanese couple reunites in this dissection of a forgone marriage.
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  • Partition

    Diana Allan weaves footage from colonial archives: an invitation to consider how truths are purposely changed.
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  • The Open Door

    An adaptation of Latifa al-Zayyat’s iconic coming-of-age novel about a woman’s political and sexual awakening.
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  • Where to?

    A hard-pressed farming family grapples with poverty and emigration in a piercing neorealist parable.
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  • Introduction to the End of an Argument

    Snippets from Western films, documentaries and news coverage are woven together to expose their racial bias when depicting the Middle East, Arab cultu
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  • In Search of a City (in the Papers of Sein)

    Idler Sein’s perambulations become a layered declaration of love to the city of Cairo. Shot before, but edited after the Egyptian revolution.
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