Films & series: stories, characters & cast

Rachida

A schoolteacher tries to recover a daily life after violence makes her classroom a target.

The Blessed

Two generations move through the same Algiers night with different memories and expectations of the city.

Délice Paloma

An Algiers fixer’s ambitions draw family, money and a new recruit into the same precarious enterprise.

Bab El-Oued City

A baker’s impulsive act unsettles an Algiers neighbourhood.

L’Oranais

Two friends face the distance between independence and its promises.

The Rooftops

A day above Algiers reveals the tensions within the city.

The Repentant

A return home cannot erase the consequences of violence.

Héliopolis

A father and son disagree about Algeria’s future in 1945.

The King of Algiers

Two old accomplices try to begin again in Algiers.

Sultan Achour 10

A fictional royal court turns modern concerns into comedy.

El Dama

Family loyalties and criminal pressure intersect in Bab El Oued.

A Summer in La Goulette

Three friends test the boundaries of love, family and religion in a seaside neighbourhood.

As I Open My Eyes

A young singer claims her voice in Tunis on the eve of political upheaval.

The Man Who Sold His Skin

A refugee’s route to the woman he loves passes through the international art market.

Under the Fig Trees

A summer harvest becomes a meeting place for work, attraction and conversations between generations.

Dear Son

A father’s carefully ordered life falters when his only child becomes increasingly difficult to reach.

Ashkal

Two investigators follow a trail of fire through unfinished buildings and unresolved political history.

Buried Secrets

Three secluded women find their fragile domestic world disturbed by the arrival of strangers.

Dachra

A student investigation takes three friends from a forgotten crime to an isolated village.

Ali Zaoua: Prince of the Streets

Four boys, a dream of the sea and a friendship tested on Casablanca’s streets.

Casanegra

Two childhood friends pursue a way out as the city draws them into another risky deal.

Much Loved

Friendship and daily survival among women whose work makes them both desired and condemned.

Razzia

Five lives connected by a city, a past and the desire to choose their own direction.

Volubilis

A newly married couple hopes for a home of its own amid unequal lives in Meknes.

Hounds

A father and son accept a criminal errand that draws them into a long Casablanca night.

The Unknown Saint

A thief returns for buried money and finds his hiding place has acquired devoted visitors.

Mimosas

An uncertain mountain route becomes a journey through trust, obligation and the limits of belief.

Blessed Benefit

An ordinary worker’s prison sentence prompts an unexpected reassessment of the pressures waiting beyond its walls.

Captain Abu Raed

A discarded pilot’s cap turns an airport cleaner into a neighbourhood storyteller with an unexpected responsibility.

AlRawabi School for Girls

Bullying and revenge disturb the order of a prestigious girls’ school.

Wadjda

A green bicycle becomes the focus of a young girl’s determination to choose her own adventures.

The Perfect Candidate

A doctor’s campaign to repair the road to her clinic grows into an unexpected political challenge.

Barakah Meets Barakah

Two young people from different social worlds try to find a place for romance in Jeddah.

Norah

A young woman and a newly arrived teacher discover a shared language through the desire to create.

NAGA

A secret outing becomes a frantic journey through the desert outside Riyadh.

Rupture

A Saudi couple’s hopes for a new beginning turn into psychological uncertainty in London.

Scales

A girl challenges a fishing village’s demand that daughters be given to the sea.

The Book of Sun

A high-school student discovers that making a film can change more than his timetable.

Last Visit

A family emergency exposes the distance between a father and his teenage son.

Roll ’Em

An aspiring filmmaker discovers Jeddah through an encounter with an older cinematographer.

Head to Head

An airport pickup goes wrong and two unlikely colleagues enter a criminal world.

From the Ashes

A school fire exposes tensions that an ordinary timetable had kept hidden.

The Matchmaker

An office infatuation leads an IT worker to a desert resort with unsettling promises.

Hajjan

A young camel jockey races to protect the animal that connects him to his family.

Within Sand

A merchant’s hurried journey home becomes a struggle for survival in the desert.

The Tambour of Retribution

An executioner’s son falls for a wedding musician’s daughter in a divided neighbourhood.

My Driver and I

A girl growing up in Jeddah finds an enduring friend in her family’s Sudanese driver.

Hobal

A family isolated in the desert must decide whether obedience can protect those they love.

Saify

A debt-ridden cassette seller mistakes a dangerous recording for his chance at wealth.

Yesterday After Tomorrow

Two brothers find a doorway to the past and a chance to meet the father they lost.

Takki

Young friends in Jeddah try to build creative lives while negotiating work, relationships and the expectations around them.

Whispers

A businessman’s death leaves his family with questions that the official explanation cannot settle.

Masameer County

An animated Saudi comedy turns everyday frustrations into extravagant adventures for an eccentric community.

Tahir’s House

A struggling fish shop becomes the starting point for a Jeddah family’s risky attempt to reinvent its fortunes.

Crashing Eid

A Saudi woman’s visit home for Eid becomes a test of whether her family will accept the man she wants to marry.

Khuyut Al Maazib

A young apprentice confronts a harsh master in the world of traditional bisht weaving in Al-Ahsa.

Khareef Al Qalb

Two families discover that their daughters were exchanged at birth, forcing them to reconsider what makes a parent.

Cairo Station

Desire and working life at a crowded Egyptian railway station.

An Egyptian Story

A filmmaker confronts his past during a medical crisis.

Finding Ola

A new beginning after divorce, with family life still in full swing.

Paranormal

A sceptical doctor encounters events that resist his scientific explanations.

The Exchange

Two cousins seek independence on Kuwait’s trading floor.

Capernaum

A child's search for care and dignity among the overlooked lives of Beirut.

Caramel

A Beirut beauty salon becomes a meeting place for friendship, desire and difficult choices.

Where Do We Go Now?

Women in an isolated village join forces to keep religious tensions from becoming violence.

The Insult

A dispute between two men in Beirut exposes the weight of memory and public prejudice.

West Beirut

Three teenagers try to preserve the freedoms of youth as civil war divides their city.

Omar

Love and friendship become fragile commitments in a thriller about trust under occupation.

Paradise Now

Two friends confront a planned act of violence and the beliefs that brought them towards it.

Wajib

Delivering wedding invitations becomes a day of disagreement and rediscovery for a father and son.

The Time That Remains

Family memories connect four periods of Palestinian life, from 1948 into a later generation.

It Must Be Heaven

A quiet traveller discovers unexpected echoes of Palestine in Paris and New York.