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2022

Daughters of Abdulrahman

Synopsis

 

Zainab wakes up to a shocking discovery that could defame her in the neighborhood. She quickly calls for her sisters’ aid. Yet fiery Amaal has her own secret struggle and will not deal with Samah who is too busy with her own issues. Meanwhile Khitam tries to focus on her own mission.


Dramatic Comedy/Satire
Jordan
2021
118 minutes
Arabic with English Subtitles

Memory Box

Synopsis

Maia, a single mother, lives in Montreal with her teenage daughter, Alex. On Christmas Eve, they receive an unexpected delivery: notebooks, tapes, and photos that Maia sent to her best friend from 1980’s Beirut. Maia refuses to open the box or confront its memories, but Alex secretly begins diving into it. Between fantasy and reality, Alex enters the world of her mother’s tumultuous, passionate adolescence during the Lebanese civil war, unlocking mysteries of a hidden past.
 

Mediterranean Fever

Waleed (40) lives in Haifa with his wife and children and dreams of a writing career while suffering from chronic depression. He develops a close friendship with his neighbour (a small-time crook) with an ulterior plot in mind. While the scheme turns into an unexpected friendship between the two men, it leads them into a journey of dark encounters.

Awards: Best Screenplay, Un Certain Regard, Cannes Film Festival 2022; Firebird Award, Hong Kong Film Festival, 2022; Palestine’s official entry for the Oscars, 2023.

PFM

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Palestine Cinema Days

Palestine Cinema Days Festival is an annual event organized by Film Lab: Palestine in October of each year. It aims to put Palestine on the map of the global Cinema industry and the film scene, in addition to promoting local and international films across several places in different cities within Palestine. Film Lab: Palestine launched the first edition of Palestine Cinema Days in 2014 (which was called Cinema Days) and it has become an annual tradition ever since.