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While stuck at her sister’s baby shower a thirty-something woman is forced to decide whether she wants to have kids or not after unexpectedly giving birth to her reproductive organs.

  This anima-doc stitches the fragments of the personal life of Alia, a Lebanese woman. Growing up facing war and displacement, she forms a friendship with a would-be superhero on the shore of Beirut called Abu Samra. She trains with him and their monsters meet. Alia and Abu Samra survive by finding comfort in the insanity that the city has sown in them. Then the Lebanese revolution starts.

“Hercules” tells the story of a depressed man on the verge of suicide who gradually finds hope and a sense of purpose by raising a cricket larva. Through this unexpected bond, he begins to turn his chaotic life around, proving his worth to himself and his loved ones.

The story of resettlement from a condemned neighborhood turns into a confrontation when an old man stands up to protect his garage — hiding something mystical inside.

  Nasìr has the chance to realize his big dream and be admitted to a prestigious cooking school. To do so he will have to cook the most important dish of his life. A dish that, behind a recipe, tells a story. 

Training, Take-Off, Grand Prix. Legacy is one of the most valuable and celebrated horses in show jumping. In pursuit of victories, she is flown between competition venues across the globe. Air Horse One follows Legacy on her long journeys in the business class of equine air travel.

Samir and Nadyn, a Lebanese couple, spend a sleepless night anxious and fearing an Israeli

airstrike could shatter the glass walls of their home. With their children peacefully asleep, they battle with whether to flee or risk the worst and stay.

A social satire, told in five acts, delves into our society, its behaviors, and flaws. The narrative, conveyed through light and attractive visuals, serves as a cautionary tale about the potential consequences if we fail to eliminate foolish behaviors, lack of empathy, and a lack of responsibility.

 After eight years of caring for his mother with severe dementia, a son struggles through their daily care routine. Recorded voicemails serve to show the progression of the disease, underscoring the frustration, isolation and burnout that comes with intensive caregiving. 

Looking for a quick buck, brothers Boyan and Deyan steal a car, only to find they have accidentally kidnapped a child. Boyan begs to stop the car, but Deyan has other plans.

During Rio's Carnival, a street cleaner struggles with the loss of his sister and his work obligations. Amid the celebrations, he finds a lost child and sets out to help him.

At the local bar, the actor meets a young director who invites him to play a serial killer in her feminist horror film. But the actor isn’t so thrilled as he believes that everything he plays in films later happens to him in real life.

In the suburb of a northern Chinese city undergoing urbanization, a quirky girl who wants to see animals in the zoo is taken for a ride which will forever change her perspective on life.

After losing her job, a single mother engages in petty scams in an attempt to provide for her six-year-old son.

He was born with the peculiar ability to move and remove his body parts. Throughout his life, he shares his body parts to people he loves. Until the day he died, all left from him is a torso with a faceless head. His mother is trying to recollect his body parts.

After visiting the chicken processing plant, Yan experiences unsettling physical change, meanwhile, a bird flu quietly descends in suburban Guangdong, China.

 On any given day in our sweet and dreamy society, everything goes normally, but Antonio enters the cafeteria and comments that Vicente, a beloved man in the neighborhood, has been hit on the head and is in a very serious condition in the hospital. 

In a Sisyphean cycle of fires and drought, a family of olive farmers ask themselves -

Where does one find the strength to begin again?