Joanna Arida

Year 1936. As villages across Palestine rise against British colonial rule, Yusuf drifts between his rural home and the restless energy of Jerusalem, longing for a future beyond the growing unrest. But history is relentless. With rising numbers of Jewish immigrants escaping antisemitism in Europe and some arriving with nefarious Zionist-colonial ambitions, and the Palestinian population uniting in the largest and longest uprising against Britain’s 30-year dominion, all sides spiral towards inevitable collision in a decisive moment for the British Empire and the future of the entire region.

Children's laughter and the sound of skateboards rolling have replaced explosions and screaming. Witness how the war torn Middle East acts as a backdrop to this amazing story of human survival.

When a forty-year-old divorced father discovers that he needs to undergo an operation, which he can not afford, within the next 4 days, he finds himself forced to deal with the life he isolated himself from for the longest time.

In the slums of Jordan, power circulates through fear, favors, and violence. Boomah, a volatile street enforcer, survives on petty extortion and intimidation because for those at the bottom, crime is the only work that pays. Children move through the same streets she controls, selling goods, running messages, learning the rules of danger before adulthood; Boomah frightens them, exploits them, and sometimes protects them, caught between the instincts of a predator and the shadow of her own abandoned childhood. Surrounded by women struggling to shield their families, she carries a fractured relationship to motherhood, shaped by loss and survival rather than care. When a new, more organized criminal force begins to restructure the underground economy, independent lives like hers grow increasingly disposable, and Boomah is pushed to confront what it means to survive in a world where violence is labor, children inherit the streets, and motherhood is both a wound and a responsibility.

In this short, a pop-up techno club ambushes the streets of downtown Amman flooding a conservative neighborhood with heavy bass and unfamiliar faces.

Simsim is a woman approaching her thirties, trying to escape her reality by finding a dream man who can rescue her and her daughter. When she finally finds him, she must convince her estranged husband to grant her a divorce — and the only way to do so is by finding him a new bride.

The bullied outcasts at prestigious Al Rawabi School for Girls plot a series of risky takedowns to get back at their tormentors.

When Ahmed is told he may not survive a risky surgery, Maryam learns she’s carrying their first child. With only 220 days to go until his surgery and the childbirth, life, death, and everything in between hangs by the thread.

Set against the backdrop of Israel's genocide on Gaza in October 2023, an Egyptian doctor named Salma volunteers with a relief convoy and crosses paths with a Palestinian man desperately searching for his nephew under the rubble. As they fight alongside each other for survival, a deep human bond forms — turning love and hope into acts of resistance. Inspired by real events and testimonies.

Laura H, The teenager from Zoetermeer takes on a new identity in her search for herself and travels with her husband Ibrahim and two children to the caliphate in Syria. When she shows up at the border in 2016 and says she has escaped and regrets it, doubts about her motives are great. Why did Laura choose to travel to the 'Caliphate'?