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Der zwölfjährige Noura ist ein beeinflussbarer Junge, der lernen muss, zwei gegensätzliche Welten miteinander zu vereinbaren - die liebevolle Welt der muslimischen Frauen und die ganz andere, härtere Welt der Männer.

Zwischen Licht und Dunkelheit steht Olfa, eine Tunesierin und Mutter von vier Töchtern.

Following the death of her husband in an accident, young Amel tries to find some consolation in photography. She takes photos of strangers from the street, looking at men as they tend to do towards women.

Ein syrischer Flüchtling lässt seinen Rücken als Kunstwerk tätowieren, um zu seiner Liebe nach Europa zu reisen, doch seine Entscheidung bringt ihm alles andere als Freiheit.

Explores how far one can go to break free from their past.

Fanon's progressive methods at Blida hospital spark criticism. His humane patient care angers staff. FLN's Ramdane recruits him. He and wife Josie join Algeria's independence fight.

Ali kommt gerade so über die Runden, indem er geschmuggeltes Benzin verkauft. Nach dem Tod seines Vaters muss sich der junge Tunesier plötzlich um seine beiden Schwestern kümmern.

As she grows up, Alia (the daughter of housemaid Khedija) learns the secrets of the peaceful palace where she and her mother live.

When a woman shelters a group of girls from suffering female genital mutilation, she starts a conflict that tears her village apart.

11 year old Aziz needs a liver transplant after being seriously injured during a terrorist ambush while on holiday in 2011. At the hospital a family secret will be revealed.

A college student seeks help after a brutal assault but faces a bureaucratic nightmare when she reveals that her perpetrators are police officers.

As a British ornithologist arrives in Sicily to research the climate change effects on migration, he witnesses a series of dramatic events. Relinquishing his role of a detached observer will be more challenging than it seems.

In the ensuing days before his wedding bridegroom Hachemi faces both the anxieties of the future and the shadows of the past. His best friend, Farfat, is the topic of street graffiti and local gossip, which calls his manhood into question. This ripples out to affect Hachemi for, unbeknownst to anyone, as apprenticed youths they were molested by Ameur, the local carpenter. Farfat is banished from his father's home and the shared secret between the two friends threatens to undo more than just the wedding, but their very lives.

Mohamed is deeply shaken when his oldest son Malik returns home after a long journey with a mysterious new wife.

Two Palestinian brothers plan on immigrating to Canada after the Israeli air force bombs their family home. Milad (Stereo) used to be a wedding singer but because his wife dies in the attack he doesn't want to live in palestine or sing anymore. The bombing also leaves his brother Samy mute and deaf. The two set about earning money for their travel to Canada by buying a secondhand sound system that they rent out for events in Ramallah.

An extraordinary story of a young woman raised in Switzerland who travels back to Algeria, her birthplace, to meet and kill her natural mother, who abandoned her shortly after birth. Along the way, she is exposed to the brutality of desert life and, in particular, the abuses that men heap upon women in fundamentalist, third world countries. Birth, death and life in general, have little meaning as people struggle for survival. The scenery is stark but at the same time beautiful and the faces of the characters that she meet are marvelous. The film was made in Tunisia, as it does not cast a particularly good light on Algerian men and probably could not have gotten permission to be filmed in Algeria where Sharia is the law of the land.

An ordinary family whose life takes a dramatic turn. Between despair, guilt and desire for life, how to reconstruct when you face the unacceptable ?

Amina a married Muslim woman living in Tunis with her two daughters. Even though she is allowed certain freedoms as a Muslim woman this is curtailed when she meets her old friend from school Aida.

A film about the absurdity of not accepting the other despite the difference.

Abu Laila used to be a judge, but because the government doesn't have the means to renew his assignment he is forced to be a taxi driver. On the day his daughter Laila becomes seven years old his wife insists that he'll be at home early and bring her a present and a cake. Abu Laila's has nothing else on his mind then completing this mission. But the daily life in Palestine has other plans.

Once upon a time, like 3000 years ago, a beloved King named Satour falls to illness, where his bastard son Bourghel finds himself in charge of the kingdom.

Locked in a room until the release of her fiance from prison, a young woman escapes with the help of his brother.

Alex Randal (Stephen Moyer), a young reporter on the make, decides, without knowing anything about the situation, to go to Beirut on October 23, 1983, when he hears a radio report about suicide trucks exploding on both an American base and a French base, resulting in the deaths of hundreds of soldiers. Seduced by a gifted and enigmatic photographer, Julia Muller (Anne Parillaud), Randal finds a capitol torn by civil war, where political, financial and strategic interests intertwine.

Adapted from the series Viva Carthago (2011), an intrepid adventurous team, guided by a 10 years old boy, goes to discover the key moments of the ancient Mediterranean history.