Clara Khoury

Trapped within a car under heavy fire, a six-year-old girl pleads for rescue through a series of desperate phone calls. This narrative reconstructs the tense, heartbreaking hours spent navigating fear and isolation while emergency responders attempt to reach her location. It focuses on the raw vulnerability of a child caught in a zone of intense hostility, highlighting a struggle for survival.

Following the fall of Saddam Hussein, former police inspector Muhsin al-Khafaji has lost virtually everything. He searches for one of the few things remaining in his life, his missing estranged elder daughter. (imdb)

Elissa’s life takes a turn when she meets a mysterious man in her English class and she has to quickly decide between her family and him- and going from family-life to a life on the run is a wild choice to everyone but her.

Two women reunite in London, where they go over the details of a life-changing event which occurred when they were teenagers in Jerusalem.

Amjad is an Arab-Israeli journalist whose problems with cultural identity drive himself and all around him crazy especially his wife, Bushra. (imdb)

Forgiveness tells the story of David Adler, a 20-year old American-Israeli who decides to move back to Israel, only to find himself committed to a mental institution that sits on the ruins of a Palestinian village called Deir Yassin

Directed with equal parts humor and humanity by Israeli filmmaker Eran Riklis, The Syrian Bride is set on the sun-baked border between Israel and Syria, a no man's land that the eponymous bride must cross in order to meet her anxious groom. (Film Forum)

Palestinian director Hany Abu-Assad's timely feature explores love among the ruins of an occupied territory and is the winner of the Human Rights Watch International Film Festival's 2003 Nestor Almendros Prize for courage in filmmaking. (Arab Film Distribution)