Cinemed 2023

Zoé and Volta set off from their isolated home village to attend university in Pristina. In the midst of social and political unrest, the two women discover a country in turmoil, searching for its identity on the brink of independence.

A sexual awakening causes a woman to reconsider her past relationships.

ANNA, 30, runs a small farm in an unspoiled area of Sardinia. One day, the construction of a mega resort right next to her grounds will force her to engage in the biggest battle of her life.

Becoming part of a collective anger, Ishak copes with his conscience in a small village in Anatolia and struggles with the violence of collective silence.

Aida, member of a Tunisian contemporary dance troupe touring Morocco, provokes during a representation in a small Middle Atlas town, her life and stage partner Hedi, who injures her onstage triggering a series of events through a long night across a forest, on the way to the next village's doctor.

Eighteen-year-old Israeli soldier flees back to his girlfriend in Tel Aviv only to discover that the military elite is convinced he was kidnapped in the fog of war.

A teenage girl's seemingly little lie leads her into a storm of expectations, condemnation, and social dogmas.

Ginia, seventeen, experiences the ecstasy and turmoil that characterize the mysterious journey into adulthood. Meeting with Amelia confronts her with new and shocking emotions. But only by recognizing this love, she can be herself.

In Tunisia, Fatma and her daughters, Najeh and Waffeh, work as "machtat", traditional musicians who play at wedding ceremonies. Their music evokes love and its promises, but the reality is much more complex and painful.

Exploring the issue of stolen children in Spain, the plot tracks Vera's search for her biological son, given in adoption, thereby coming across Cora and her adoptive son Egoz.

During a summer in a village house linked to beekeeping, an eight-year-old and her mother experience revelations that will change their lives forever.

A woman in a Galician fishing village is struggling to get by with hard work and rough charm. With her 18-year-old daughter now ready to stand on her own two feet, Ramona begins to question her life up to this point.

Nesrin who lives with her four-year-old son, struggles with her ex-husband Ömer's oppressive behavior and bureaucratic hardships while she is on the brink of making a critical decision regarding her relationship with her boyfriend Selim.

Seven years after the death of his mother, 13-year-old Karim leaves Paris for Morocco with his father Messaoud, who has remarried and decides to return to his homeland.

A Moroccan woman's search for truth tangles with a web of lies in her family history. As a daughter and filmmaker, she fuses personal and national history as she reflects on the 1981 Bread Riots, drawing out connections to modern Morocco.

A ten-year-old boy's world is upturned when his father is forced to shelter a runaway criminal in the family cafe that doubles as their home.

Mira and Klodi go to Marseille for a mission. Time is of the essence as they face a crucial appointment and a room full of waiting men. They must face the need to let go of one another as they grapple with the gravity of their decision.

A little Kurdish girl tries to put a smile back on her grandmother's face after the disappearance of her television, her only window into the world.

Security agent Raed must stop pedestrians from entering the waterfront while it is being built. But as the building stifles the horizon more and more, he encounters strange things - just dreams or manifestations of his desires?

Hasna and Samad, 14 years old. Art and painting help them to resist and catch the light in the middle of the darkness.

Lali is sexually assaulted on a dark road in a Tel Aviv parking lot. Awake, yet unable to move, she stares at a streetlight. The next morning, Lali wakes up to a reality which she refuses to accept.

In 1942, on a train to nowhere, a former drag queen remembers a night from her past in one of Paris' first queer bars. Remnants of customer gossip recall this mythic bar and its mysterious Jewish-Algerian owner.

An early summer evening begins with a game, while one kid counts to three thousand, the others hide in a row of suburban gardens. During that time, a young father spends the rest of his day with someone else's child, an old man awaits a call that will change his life and the future of a year-long friendship becomes uncertain. The game ends when mosquitoes start rising from the grass.

A stop-motion animated short film offering a peek into the unseen world inside the grand Greek Parliament building and the people who work there, finding the comedy in mundane, bizarre, hilarious everyday, and throwaway, moments - aren't we all human after all?