The Teacher (PG18)
A Palestinian schoolteacher struggles to reconcile his risky commitment to political resistance with the chance of a new relationship with volunteer-worker Lisa and his emotional support for one of his students Adam.
Director: Farah Nabulsi
Country: United Kingdom, Qatar, Palestine
Year: 2023
Language: Arabic, English
Subtitles: Arabic, English

Within Sand
When “Snam” gets ambushed by a group of thieves, he finds himself lost in the Saudi desert. While his pregnant wife, Halla, faces the men of the tribe to ensure his return, he finds himself being followed by a lone wolf.
Director: Moe Alatawi
Country: Saudi Arabia
Year: 2022
Language: Arabic
Subtitles: English

Mandoob (R15)
In the heart of Riyadh, where desperation and opportunity collide, MANDOOB brings forth the gripping tale of Fahad Algadaani, a mentally fragile man racing against time to save his ailing father.
Director: Ali AlKalthami
Country: Saudi Arabia
Year: 2023
Language: Arabic

Flight 404 (R18)
Days before traveling to Mecca for HAJJ, Ghada is faced with an emergency and needs a large sum of money. She must return to a tainted past and keep it from consuming her.
Director: Hani Khalifa
Country: Egypt
Year: 2024
Language: Arabic
Subtitles: English

Q (PG)
Jude Chehab investigates her mother Hiba’s adherence to a closed-off, all-female religious sect in Syria. Chehab examines how their mother-daughter relationship and the dynamics of the entire family were upended by this devotion.
Director: Jude Chehab
Country: Lebanon, United States
Year: 2023
Language: Arabic, English
Subtitles: Arabic, English

Goodbye Julia 
Just before the secession of South Sudan, a married former singer from the north seeks redemption for causing the death of a southern man by hiring his oblivious wife as her maid.
Director: Mohamed Kordofani
Country: Sudan, Sweden, Saudi Arabia, Germany, France, Egypt
Year: 2023
Language: Arabic
Subtitles: English

Four Daughters (R15)
Between light and darkness stands Olfa, a Tunisian woman and the mother of four daughters. One day, her two older daughters disappear. Filmmaker Kaouther Ben Hania invites professional actresses to fill in their absence.
Director: Kaouther Ben Hania
Country: France, Tunisia, Germany, Saudi Arabia, Cyprus
Year: 2023
Language: Arabic, French, English
Subtitles: Arabic, English

Saleeg (G)
Sixty-year-old Hajer lives alone in Historic Jeddah. She prepares the famous local rice dish “Saleeg”. She hears the bell of the grocer outside. She hurries to the living room window, and neglects to cover the pot. The birds fly in and begin to nibble, but accidentally knock off the rice into the pot, and it begins to cook and expand in size.
Director: Afnan Bawyan
Country: Saudi Arabia
Year: 2023
Language: Arabic, Urdu, Tigrinya
Subtitles: English

The Menace from Above (G)
Happy-go-lucky Zahra the fish is taking a stroll in a colorful Red
Sea, when she runs into a monstrous plastic bag eating up a
jellyfish. While panic and scared at first, Zahra musters up the
courage to help the jellyfish, risking her life.
Director: Maryam Khayat
Country: Saudi Arabia
Year: 2023
Language: Arabic
Subtitles: English

FISHy (G)
FISHy portrays the life-altering experiences of Layali and her brother, Shadi. Their simple desire to purchase and care for a pet fish is abruptly disrupted by the outbreak of war, which destroys their home and leaves them with nothing but the bleakest of options.
Director: AlAbbas Hamidaddin
Country: Saudi Arabia
Year: 2022
Language: Arabic
Subtitles: English

COFFEE! (G)
COFFEE! follows the harrowing journey of a young woman named Suhad, whose life is plagued by relentless nightmares as a result of her stressful lifestyle and chronic insomnia. The boundaries between reality and the world of dreams blur, entangling Suhad in a treacherous web of distorted perceptions. In this tumultuous landscape of dreams, the laws of physics give way, giving way to strange occurrences as the signals of the various elements collide inexplicably, sometimes sharply.
Director: Rasha Alsharif
Country: Saudi Arabia
Year: 2023