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Shortly after Muzamil was born, the village's holy man predicts that he will die at age 20. Muzamil's father can't stand the curse and leaves home. Sakina raises her son as a single mother, overly protective. One day, Muzamil turns 19.

A willful young boy follows his just as obstinate grandmother in a journey across Iraq, determined to discover the fate of her missing son, Ahmed's father, who never returned from war.

A documentary filmmaker in Cairo is having difficulty finishing his film, so his friends send him footage from the cities they live in: Baghdad, Beirut, and Berlin.

Rabih, a young blind man, lives in a small village in Lebanon. He sings in a choir and edits Braille documents for an income. His life unravels when he tries to apply for a passport and discovers that his identification card, which he has carried his entire life, is a forgery. Traveling across rural Lebanon in search of a record of his own birth, he meets people on the far fringes of society who tell their own stories, open further questions and give Rabih minor clues about his true identity. Descending into a void at the heart of his existence, Rabih encounters a nation incapable of telling his or its own narrative.

Khaled is a young director looking to make a movie about the situation in Beirut, while writing the script, he discovers dark secrets about what he's actually dealing with.

A 48-hour journey into modern Cairo following the parallel lives of Youssef and Leila.

A group of street children united by El-Kharabah (Ruined slums). Their methods of obtaining money vary between digging in garbage, theft, drug distribution and prostitution. The film tries to monitor what drives these people to practice abnormal behaviors to get enough to live, and how the government and society are directly responsible for this phenomenon that is still spreading widely.

An English literature doctor and her husband who works as a psychology teacher at the university. They have been married for six years of without having children, and conflicts happen between them.