Lubna Azabal

Set during the largely unexplored period immediately after WWII, the film follows a group of mostly Jewish Parisians who attempt to restart their lives and rekindle their capacity for happiness in the shadow of unspeakable horrors. (Empire Pictures)

Paradise Now is the story of two young Palestinian men as they embark upon what may be the last 48 hours of their lives. (Warner Independent Pictures)

Traveling from France to Tangiers, a man looks to reunite with his former love, though their romance ended some 30 years earlier.

Propelled by a rousing, percussive musical score, Exiles tells of two young Algerians living in France who decide to return to the land of their parents, encountering mishaps, adventures, love and inspiration along the way... (thecia.com.au)

A kaleidoscope of gritty interlocking stories set at Christmas time and mostly taking place after dark. (european-films.net)

A mother's last wishes send twins Jeanne and Simon on a journey to Middle East in search of their tangled roots. Adapted from Wajdi Mouawad's acclaimed play, Incendies tells the powerful and moving tale of two young adults' voyage to the core of deep-rooted hatred, never-ending wars and enduring love. (imdb)

Cartographer Will Shepard hits the road for his latest job: to create a new, more accurate satellite survey of Armenia. During his assignment, he forms a bond with an Armenian expatriate and art photographer.

One of five brothers, raised by a widowed mother, reunites with his family whom he had left years before. Chased by a gang of smugglers, he reveals a secret. The five of them will gather the energy to defend themselves and the means to avenge the memory of their murdered father. (allocine.fr)

Set in German-occupied Paris in 1942, Younes, an Algerian black marketer, is arrested by the police and agrees to spy on a Parisian mosque suspected of helping resistance fighters and Jews. Witnessing the horrors of the Nazi regime, Younes stops collaborating to become a freedom fighter. (tiff.net)

In Tangier, intercontinental truck driver Serge is in love with Sarah, but is in some trouble of his own. Film generally concerns Moroccans with various relationships with the country: visiting staying, leaving & contemplating. (imdb)

A thriller set in London's slave trade and centered on a woman's fight for freedom. (imdb)

Inspired by real events, this multi-layered suspense thriller is part murder mystery, part film noir and part dysfunctional love triangle. Set in contemporary Tangiers and Casablanca, it subtly interweaves a broad cast of characters from different ethnic, cultural and class backgrounds. (Hollywoodreporter)

Laïla Marrakchi returns to the Festival with another lively family drama chronicling the foibles and hypocrisies of Morocco's middle class. (tiff.net)

The Honourable Woman is a new eight-part political thriller written, directed and produced by BAFTA-winning writer Hugo Blick, and marks Gyllenhaal's first move into TV. Set against the present day backdrop of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, The Honourable Woman explores a range of complex and provocative themes of conflict, deception and betrayal on both a personal, human level as well as on the international and political stage. (bbc.co.uk)

In 1983 France, teenaged Mohamed is shot by a policeman, but survives. Rejecting his friends' proposal of violent retribution, he proposes political action inspired by Gandhi and Martin Luther King. With two friends, and support from Dubois, the priest of Minguettes, they embark on a non-violent March for Equality and Against Racism between Marseille and Paris. (Wikipedia)

"Grain." The contemplative sci-fi drama is set in an apocalyptic future in which drought, starvation, the refugee crisis, genetic modification of crops, and human arrogance have ravaged the planet.

Three ex-servicemen return to Basra, each for a different reason.

A horrific discovery in a small town nestled high in the French Pyrenees begins to unravel a dark mystery that has been hidden for years. Commandant Martin Servaz starts investigating and soon discovers a dark story of madness and revenge. (imdb)

An Ukranian woman enters Belgium illegally and hides in the van of a driver abandoned by his wife. He ends up helping her to find her husband who had emigrated long before. They are joined by his wacky Spanish mother and cute young daughter.

The story of Mary Magdalene.

The show is based on le Carré's novel of the same title. A bomb explodes in the house of an Israeli attaché in West Germany. A team of Israelis wants to stop such frequent bombings, all brilliantly planned by an elusive Palestinian. The Israelis identify an eccentric actor of English origin and convert her into an Israeli agent. She and her case officers brilliantly win the confidence of the Palestinian network and she is accepted as their own. (imdb)

Salam, an inexperienced young Palestinian man, becomes a writer on a popular soap opera after a chance meeting with an Israeli soldier. His creative career is on the rise - until the soldier and the show's financial backers disagree about how the show should end, and Salam is caught in the middle. (imdb)

Sofia, 20 years, lives with her parents in Casablanca. Following a denial of pregnancy, she is found in the illegality giving birth to a baby out of wedlock. The hospital leaves her 24h to provide the papers of the father of the child before to alert the authorities. Written by Hugo Van Herpe

Attempting to lead a quiet reformed life, an ex-con finds refuge in a motel run by a single mother and her daughter Clara. The peace and freedom he has found in this safe haven disappears when Clara is assaulted, forcing him to face his old demons Written by thomsen-63997

While Frank Valken makes a fabulous break, a killer squad goes into action and executes all the witnesses. Among the corpses is that of the magistrate who is investigating the Mad Snipers case. Thirty years later, they seem to be back. Arrested and faced with media pressure, Frank has no choice but to escape to try to prove his innocence.

The portrait of a wounded city in enigmatic images: at its center stand Brussels and the haunting stories of the city's lost souls. (imdb)

A middle-aged factory worker's life is upended when she follows her employer to Morocco. (imdb)

When his mother dies, Zino decides to find his father, Farid. But 25 years ago, Farid became Lola. (imdb)

Abla runs a modest local bakery from her home in Casablanca where she lives alone with her 8-year-old daughter, Warda. When Samia, a young pregnant woman knocks on their door, Abla is far from imagining that her life will change forever. (imdb)

And if the terrible "collapse" of our civilization, the collapse that everyone is talking about, was really happening soon? Several destinies of individuals and families, at different moments of the collapse, trying to survive as best they can in a world that no longer runs, between lack of resources (energy, food ...), riots, panic and insecurity. (myseries.tv)

In the Vucciria, the heart of Palermo's historic old city, strains of quintessentially Italian traditional music drift into a dressmaker's workshop. As she sews in time, creating a mysterious collection of traditional puppet costumes, the square below comes alive with music and dancing. (imdb)

Mid-nineties, a small town in Northern Morocco. Fouad is a technician whose life is disrupted by a neurological disease. While Fouad is dying, his family rediscovers itself through love, sorrow and memories.

A portrayal of a family torn apart over a little Muslim boy's future.

Halim and Mina who run a traditional caftan store in one of Morocco's oldest medinas. In order to keep up with demanding customers, they hire a talented young man as an apprentice. Slowly Mina realises how much her husband is moved by his presence.

Moroccan-Dutch Karim returns to his family home and opens up to his parents about being into men. Their reaction inspires a journey of discovery through Karim's isolation as he attempts to break an ingrained culture of silence.

Simone Veil's life story through the pivotal events of Twentieth Century. Her childhood, her political battles, her tragedies. An intimate and epic portrait of an extraordinary woman who eminently challenged and transformed her era defending a humanist message still keenly relevant today.

An arranged marriage between two young French arabs in spite of themselves, for the honour of their families

A murder ties the fate of two women with an adverse background. They get dragged into a threatening game of fraud and betrayal. (imdb)

This movie portrays three women living in today's Algeria between modern society and Islamic fundamentalism, self-determination and dependence. Goucem, a young woman who works for a photographer and mistress of a rich doctor, her mother Papicha, a former cabaret star, and her best friend Fifi, a prostitute, all live in a hotel in the city center of Algiers. (imdb)

Driven by the promise of a new life, Jessica, a 19-year-old Frenchwoman, leaves for Syria to join Daech. Arriving in Raqqa, she joins a home for the future wives of combatants, and soon finds herself the prisoner of Madame, the charismatic director who runs the place with an iron fist. Inspired by true events.

It tells the story of a police officer who dies during an initiation process at a French military school. (imdb)

In their council flat in the suburbs of Paris, Nicole (52) and her son, Serge (19), live a fusional love that flourishes against all odds. But as the Christmas holidays approach, turning their relationship and their life upside down. (imdb)

Brussels teacher Amal encourages students' passion for reading and freedom of expression, despite risks. Her daring approach leaves a mark on pupils and families. (imdb)