Ossama Bawardi

A story about nostalgia, loneliness, and the absence of love. Haneen is an old woman surviving within the memories of her home, struggling between slow monotony and her passion to rediscover life.

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A Syrian exile living in Australia returns when his brother is taken into custody by the Assad regime in 2011.

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Filmmaker Elia Suleiman travels to different cities and finds unexpected parallels to his homeland of Palestine.

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After years abroad in Italy, Shadi returns to his native Nazareth. But this is no spectacular homecoming. He's back somewhat begrudgingly to honour his "wajib" (or duty) to hand out invitations to his sister's wedding with his father. The simmering tension between the two — who are often stuck in a car, more often than not in traffic — builds, exposing the sometimes-comic chasms that exist between men who live in different worlds but share an unshakable bond.

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A miss-matched couple embark on a frantic search for the Dead Sea Scroll hidden in the ancient city of Petra.

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A Syrian doctor and her daughter flee Aleppo, setting off a chain of events that binds five strangers together. A smuggler, a soldier, a poet, and a coast guard captain collide in a crisis that tests their courage, their choices, and their humanity.

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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.

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A Palestinian school teacher struggles to reconcile his life-threatening commitment to political resistance with his emotional support for one of his students and the chance of a new romantic relationship with a British volunteer worker.

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This black humor pan-Arabic anthology series is about love in general – and relationships in particular.

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A Syrian exile living in Australia returns when his brother is taken into custody by the Assad regime in 2011.

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