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The Narrow Frame of Midnight / Itar el-layl (2014) Tala Hadid, Khalid Abdalla, Marie-Josée Croze, Fadwa Boujouane

A man in search of his brother and a young girl in search of a home, both running toward an unknown future. One finds freedom, the other death. Read More »
Aïcha (2024) Mehdi Barsaoui, Fatma Sfarr, Hela Ayed, Ala BenHamad

Aya, thirty-year-old Tunisian, lives in Tozeur, a city in southern Tunisia, at the gates of the desert. Read More »
Memoria (2021) Apichatpong Weerasethakul, Tilda Swinton, Elkin Díaz, Jeanne Balibar

From the extraordinary mind of Palme D’or winning director Apichatpong Weerasethakul Read More »
Tug of War (2021) Amil Shivji

A rebellious young revolutionary becomes involved with a young Indian-Zanzibari girl escaping an oppressive arranged marriage. Read More »
The Mother of All Lies (2023) Asmae El Moudir

A Moroccan woman’s search for truth tangles with a web of lies in her family history. Read More »
Sofia (2018) Meryem Benm’Barek-Aloïsi, Maha Alemi, Lubna Azabal, Sarah Perles

Sofia, 20, lives with her parents in Casablanca. Following a denial of pregnancy Read More »
Freedom Fields (2018) Naziha Arebi

An intimate look at post-revolution Libya through the eyes of an aspiring all-female soccer team Read More »
Ava (2017) Sadaf Foroughi, Vahid Aghapour, Parnian Akhtari, Sarah Alimardani

Ava’s life is dictated by rules. Coming of age in Iran, she faces pressure to conform Read More »
Houston, We Have a Problem! (2016) Bostjan Virc, Ziga Virc, Documentary, Drama

Cold War-era international intrigue, declassified top-secret documents, and a clandestine deal between John F. Kennedy and Yugoslavia’s president Josip Tito are just the tip of the iceberg in this absorbing directorial debut from filmmaker Žiga Virc. Blurring the lines between fact and fiction, Houston, We Have a Problem! explores the myth behind the origins of America’s race to be the first country to send a man to the moon, and a supposed multi-billion-dollar deal involving America’s purchase of Yugoslavia’s space program in the early 1960s.
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