AFAC

Filmmaker Elia Suleiman travels to different cities and finds unexpected parallels to his homeland of Palestine.

Kamal, a young Iraqi man entering Europe on foot through the border between Turkey and Bulgaria, is captured by Bulgarian border police but escapes, finding himself to search for a way out in a seemingly interminable forest, an underworld where rules and laws don’t exist, where he is wounded and chased by Bulgarian migrant hunters. For three days and three nights Kamal must fight for his life through a journey of survival until a final life-or-death confrontation.

The inhabitants of a city awake one morning to find that never-before-seen trees, plants, and flowers suddenly erupted throughout the streets and in the squares. Strange and mysterious events start taking place as Camelia and Nahla investigate the origins of these new and peculiar creatures.

Alone and far from home, The Kid makes his way through a strange city looking for the means to get through his day. Surrounded by predators he is forced to make compromises merely to survive, his life of exile grows one day longer.

A lonely mid-thirty music teacher, Christine, moves to work in a secondary school for boys, where she meets 16-year-old talented pianist, Marwan, and starts to offer him private lessons. Their relationship grows more controversial, and her students and colleagues terribly questions the truth of her relationship with Marwan, the thing that pushes her into a difficult crisis with herself.

Farid, a young man in his late twenties from a broken family in Alexandria, is forced to move to Cairo in search of work, leaving his mother behind. On his thirtieth birthday, she catches him off guard with a surprise that compels him to make decisions he has long put off.

Return to sender

We live with Zahra on the night of her mother’s death and accompany her on a journey of coming to terms with loss.