Explore: Arabic
Blood Like Water
A powerful, queer-focused story about a Palestinian family who are forced to make an impossible choice.
East of Noon
This dreamlike tale of youth and resistance set in a surreal modern-day Egypt is also a stirringly beautiful ode to creative expression.
Ghost Trail
This portrait of justice-seeking Syrians in European exile is a deftly calibrated spy thriller propelled by stand-out performances.
Green Border
Agnieszka Holland returns with this devastating drama that follows Middle Eastern and North African refugees trapped as pawns in a political game.
I Shall Not Hate
This doc from the streets of Israel and Palestine charts a five-time Nobel-nominated doctor’s mission to turn personal tragedy into worldwide hope.
Immortals
Two activist-survivors navigate the aftermath of Iraq’s October 2019 protests in this extraordinary collaborative portrait of contemporary Iraq.
No Other Land
An impassioned and eye-opening piece of documentary activism by an Israeli–Palestinian film collective, awarded Best Documentary at the Berlinale.
Norah
With the odds (and the law) stacked against them, a teenager and a teacher in creatively stunted Saudi Arabia find meaning and friendship through art.
To a Land Unknown
Acclaimed documentarian Mahdi Fleifel makes his fiction debut with a Midnight Cowboy–inspired Palestinian refugee story.
Who Do I Belong To
In this evocative and ethereal mystery, a soothsaying matriarch wrestles with the darkness when her jihadist son returns from Syria.