The women of impoverished Arab village Jisr az-Zarqa find hope in a surprising opportunity: to build, for the first time, a center of their own. As a luxury neighborhood encroaches on their land, threatening their community, and local violence shakes their world, they confront oppression to reshape their reality.
Shorts Program 7 - STRANGE FREQUENCIES
Genre:
Running Time: 15:00
Directed by: Benoit Méry
Deep in Hellfest, a gigantic metal festival, music gradually takes possession of metalheads.
Edna O’Brien’s 1960 literary debut, The Country Girls, sparked serious controversy in Ireland. After moving to London, she led a vibrant life of star studded parties, love affairs, and fortune. Before she passed in 2024 at 93, her final testimony for filmmaker Sinéad O'Shea reflected on her extraordinary life.
Shorts Program 10 - KINKY SHORTS
Genre:
Running Time: 14:00
Directed by: Kailena Mai
Obsessively seeking love online, Frank's search for connection takes an unexpected offline turn.
Shorts Program 10 - KINKY SHORTS
Genre:
Running Time: 15:00
Directed by: Kevin Castellano, Edu Hirschfeld
During a hard-fought cup semi-final, two captains of a football team have an argument that reveals a secret buried in the dressing rooms: the silence of homosexual footballers.
Shorts Program 7 - STRANGE FREQUENCIES
Genre:
Running Time: 8:00
Directed by: Brandon Tauszik
During a late '90s TV Guide channel broadcast, an uptight cable company CEO fights off hackers as they hijack her station, changing its content in real time.
Genre: Documentary
Running Time: 121 minutes
Directed by: Michael Henry Wilson
Clint Eastwood: A Life in Film is a portrait of the iconic filmmaker as he describes his process of creating films. The 2007 documentary features an extended, intimate interview with Clint Eastwood, covering his life, his career as a director and actor, and his creative process. The documentary, which also incorporates personal archives, film clips, and his experiences with the Pacific War projects, showcases Eastwood's signature simplicity, humor, and humility as he discusses his journey in American cinema.
Shorts Program 9 - HORRORS OF THE BODY
Genre:
Running Time: 7:00
Directed by: Nancy Joan Urich
A young mother struggles with the pain and awkwardness of breastfeeding until a homemade nipple cream, gifted by an older woman, brings her relief. Grateful, she asks to learn the recipe—only to be horrified when she discovers what it actually involves.
Shorts Program 9 - HORRORS OF THE BODY
Genre:
Running Time: 13:00
Directed by: Tawfeek Barhom
Two brothers return to their childhood island; long-buried secrets force them to confront a dark past that binds them together.
Shorts Program 8 - THE THINGS WE KEEP
Genre:
Running Time: 25'
Directed by: Julia Hebner
A phone sex operator loses her grip on reality, caught in a hypnotic relationship with a caller making disturbing confessions.
Shorts Program 6 - MENA STORIES
Genre:
Running Time: 12:00
Directed by: Faranak Sahafian
Anahita in NYC and Yalda in Tehran face their fears by going to a protest for Iranian women, and connect across the world with a single photo.
Shorts Program 9 - HORRORS OF THE BODY
Genre:
Running Time: 7:30
Directed by: Winnie Cheung
A crash with a mystical Chinese snake woman inside a magical bamboo forest leaves Claudia Chow, a motorcycle riding rebel, both tormented and intrigued by her destructive behavior.
Genre: Drama
Running Time: 01:31:41
Directed by: Matías De Leis Correa
Santiago returns to Argentina with his wife, Ana, where they organize a dinner with friends. Moments before guests arrive, Ana confesses to Santiago that Lucia, his best friend, will be bringing her new boyfriend. Santiago is soon shocked to discover that Lucia's boyfriend is no stranger.
Shorts Program 10 - KINKY SHORTS
Genre:
Running Time: 7:00
Directed by: Peter Looles
Against the stereotypes of the “ideal” woman, the women in the works of Greek comic artist Stavros Kioutsioukis preserve their personalities for happiness and love.
Shorts Program 9 - HORRORS OF THE BODY
Genre:
Running Time: 9:00
Directed by: Anne Feldmeier
Nothing can ruin Betti’s date with Tom, it seems to be perfect. All she has to do is ignore whatever is trying to escape from her bowels.
Shorts Program 7 - STRANGE FREQUENCIES
Genre:
Running Time: 21:00
Directed by: Andrei Tache-Codreanu
On Christmas Eve, Sebi finds a text message on his father's phone and reads it out loud.
Shorts Program 8 - THE THINGS WE KEEP
Genre:
Running Time: 9:00
Directed by: Naomi Noir
An intimate look at the everyday battles of caregivers, this animation follows Mary, a loving mother, and pays tribute to society’s true heroes.
Shorts Program 10 - KINKY SHORTS
Genre:
Running Time: 13:00
Directed by: Samuel Döring
Set in New York City’s queer underground sex party scene, Orgy Every Other Day highlights the importance of creating space for all of the letters of the queer alphabet.
Shorts Program 9 - HORRORS OF THE BODY
Genre:
Running Time: 16:00
Directed by: Chelsea Christer
When terminally ill Joanna decides to pursue end of life options through Death With Dignity law, the systems set up to make her death peaceful become the opposite.
Shorts Program 10 - KINKY SHORTS
Genre:
Running Time: 5:00
Directed by: Geneviève Tremblay, Milla Cummings
This stop motion documentary takes a positive look at menopause, showing different women detailing how they experienced this natural and important passage in their lives.
Shorts Program 6 - MENA STORIES
Genre:
Running Time: 12:00
Directed by: Rand Beiruty
At a crowded airport, Ahlam, a 15-year old mother, is running away from her home, Baghdad, while reflecting on her journey to reclaim her life.
Genre: Romance
Running Time: 01:16;00
Directed by:
What do a scheming teen messiah, sex-positive radicals, women with menopause, and hookup junkies have in common? These films unwrap desire in all its messy, taboo, and hilarious glory.
Genre:
Running Time: 01:12:00
Directed by:
From the “Woman, Life, Freedom” movement in Iran to never-before-seen images from Palestine, this collection traces the personal and political fault lines running through the Middle East and North Africa region.
Genre:
Running Time: 01:09:00
Directed by:
Genre:
Running Time: 01:17:00
Directed by:
A collection of stories where the truth lives underneath — hidden in family rituals, memorabilia relics, unspoken desires, and unspeakable secrets.
--1) Jeff,
2) The Collector,
3) Mother's Child,
4) The Color of Sky,
5) The Farm.
Genre: Horror
Running Time: 01:16:00
Directed by:
From unpleasant body fluids to shoplifting gone wrong, these films confront the fragility and transformation of the human body — with equal parts horror, comedy, and heart.
Shorts Program 9 - HORRORS OF THE BODY
Genre:
Running Time: 9:00
Directed by: Andrew Appelle
When Nate tries to pull off the world’s least glamorous heist, his petty shoplifting spree at a mall quickly spirals from clever scheme to total disaster. What begins as a quick score turns into a darkly hilarious wake-up call that guarantees he’ll think twice before stealing again.
Shorts Program 10 - KINKY SHORTS
Genre:
Running Time: 20:00
Directed by: Ali Rosenthal
In Ancient Nazareth, a pregnant Mary and her gay best friend Joseph hatch quite the plan to protect themselves from the consequences of their sexual "sins."
Shorts Program 9 - HORRORS OF THE BODY
Genre:
Running Time: 10:00
Directed by: Ian Singh Bawa
A South Asian bodybuilder internally pumps himself to hide his true feelings in the wake of a life-changing tragedy.
Genre: Documentary
Running Time: 01:25:00
Directed by: Jessica Zitter
Betty Clark is an 80-year-old African American hospital chaplain. Jessica Zitter is a white physician on the Palliative Care team. Filled with warmth and humor, this buddy film follows two unlikely allies working to bring curiosity, connection, and compassion to a broken healthcare system - one patient at a time.
Shorts Program 8 - THE THINGS WE KEEP
Genre:
Running Time: 15:00
Directed by: Jim Picariello, Carrie Wachob
An offbeat story about Wizard of Oz fanatic and pop culture collector, Willard Carroll, acting as proof that one story can change the trajectory of your life.
Shorts Program 8 - THE THINGS WE KEEP
Genre:
Running Time: 9:00
Directed by: Cristal Gonzalez Avila
A tale about the hope that lingers in the farewell.
Shorts Program 6 - MENA STORIES
Genre:
Running Time: 14:00
Directed by: Yosra Abu Kaf
When Abdullah loses his son fighting in the IDF, his Palestinian community shuns his dead son, leaving him grieving alone, praying that his son's soul be allowed into heaven.
Shorts Program 8 - THE THINGS WE KEEP
Genre:
Running Time: 19:00
Directed by: Leo Villares
When this English couple heads to a retreat in Brazil to mend their relationship, they face experimental psychotherapy, a meddling guru, and a test of their sanity.
Shorts Program 6 - MENA STORIES
Genre:
Running Time: 17:00
Directed by: Theo Panagopoulos
This film essay, written by a Palestinian filmmaker that unearthed Scottish film archives of Palestinian wild flowers, questions the role of image-making as a tool of both testimony and violence.
Genre: Documentary
Running Time: 01:09:54
Directed by: Asma Fuad Bseiso
Dedicated to the sea of Gaza, its stories, myths, and heroes, this film shows two parallel timelines, a Palestinian rowing champion striving to achieve her dream, and a fisherman and marine rescuer who has spent his life by the Gaza Sea.
This film was produced before the ongoing genocide in Gaza.
Genre: Documentary
Running Time: 01:36:37
Directed by: Bonni Cohen
Woven entirely of archival material, this documentary focuses on the George H.W. Bush administration's hollow promise to fight climate change with the "White House Effect," culminating with the U.S. undermining a global agreement that could've changed the polarizing future we all face today.
Shorts Program 7 - STRANGE FREQUENCIES
Genre:
Running Time: 12:00
Directed by: Eric Bitencourt
Shorts Program 7 - STRANGE FREQUENCIES
Genre:
Running Time: 5:00
Directed by: Megan Griffiths, Mindie Lind
A singer without legs confronts exploitation and imposter syndrome as she chases her dreams, and those around her chase inspiration porn.
Shorts Program 6 - MENA STORIES
Genre:
Running Time: 17:00
Directed by: Samir Syriani
A Lebanese couple spends a sleepless night fearing a potenital Israeli airstrike. With children nearby, they face the impossible choice to stay or flee for their life.
Shorts Program 7 - STRANGE FREQUENCIES
Genre:
Running Time: 15:00
Directed by: Radha Mehta, Saif Jaan
A revered small-town imam faces a crisis of faith when he must choose between upholding the values of his mosque or protecting a trans man congregant.
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