Middle East Movies

Untold stories from the frontlines of the 'Deterring Aggression' battle. This documentary chronicles the ten decisive days preceding the operation,...

The construction of a dam on the Euphrates River is an example of a country’s economic development. Through grandly composed images, rhythmic...

A globetrotting South African businessman goes about his normal Christian life until the persecution of Christians around the world is brought to his...

In a war-ravaged Syrian neighborhood, a musician struggles to rebuild his piano after it is destroyed by terrorists.

Robbie Britton and Dan Lawson attempt a Fastest Known Time (FKT) on the 650km Jordan Trail, experiencing its wild landscapes and historic sites.

"While I'm Away" is a first-year student animated short. This short is about the sense of not fully belonging to one place, and missing the other...

In her award-winning stand-up show, Esther Manito (Live At The Apollo, The Stand Up Sketch Show) looks back at the era of lad mags, landlines and...

A look at the current state of the conflict in the West Bank between settlers and Palestinians.

Forbidden to Wander chronicles the experiences of a 25-year-old Arab American woman traveling on her own in the occupied territories of the West Bank...

Lebanese/Canadian artist Jayce Salloum and Elia Suleiman, a Palestinian filmmaker living in New York, have taken on our accumulated (mis)impressions...

Jim Al-Khalili travels through Syria, Iran, Tunisia and Spain to tell the story of the great leap in scientific knowledge that took place in the...

In a city ravaged by war and famine where there is nothing but wreckage and corpses, a bird struggles to find food for its hungry chickens. But...

A paranoid criminal and her drug-addicted partner find themselves bound, hand and feet, in the middle of nowhere; she remembers nothing from the day...

Diary of Eve’s Land draws from a series of video interviews Kyoko Kasuya conducted in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, in 2023. Through social media,...

When Tehran hosts visiting foreign dignitaries, the local authorities clean up the city’s urban image through the controversial process of...

Danna, a young college student, and Yael, a woman with an intellectual disability, are forced to face the difficulties that arise in their love...

You're waiting,aren't you?

The management of waste and the experiences of its toxic afterlives are riddled with uncertainty. How can we make sense of toxicity’s different...

Bashla tells the story of Naeem, a Turkmen man who moves to Tehran but returns to his village. Struggling between tradition and modernity, he becomes...

Discusses the situation of the Palestinians in East Jerusalem whose homes have been destroyed by the 1967 war and Israeli urban renewal and...