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- A portrait of the Egyptian actress Soad Hosni, star of Arab cinema, consisting exclusively of excerpts from her films which reflect a society in the midst of change.
- A Hazara film director follows a gravestone maker, a water girl and a man who buried his limb, as their daily lives unfold in a graveyard.
- Shot in the Sharjah desert in the United Arab Emirates, The Digger follows the everyday life of Sultan Zeib Khan, the Pakistani caretaker who has been guarding the ruins of a Neolithic necropolis for twenty years. A witness to the nation's founding mythologies, Sultan preserves archeological ruins, keeping them from falling into ruin. In the midst of these empty graves that echo the vastness of the desert, the absence of corpses is more unsettling than their presence.
- A neglected housewife tries to reignite life into her marriage, much to the dismay of her temperamental husband.
- On a journalistic assignment in Morocco, Layla finds herself in her late mother's homeland. After a unique solar eclipse, Layla walks a path that traverses time and space questioning the existence of things thought impossible.
- An Emirati young lady's dream of becoming an actress clashes with her conservative family's efforts to get her married.
- Hazel discovers a mysterious antique closet that gives her whatever occupies her dreams. She shares her discovery with Kathy, who urges her to prove the closet's power in an unforeseen way.
- The film's protagonist is a Syrian refugee woman living in a Jordanian camp. The film narrates seven weeks in her life. Life at the camp is all about waiting.
- Bani Abidi emphatically presents scenes from the daily lives of the Hazara community in Quetta, Pakistan, alongside narratives of persecution and exodus. This Shia Muslim ethnic minority in today's predominantly Sunni Pakistan has sought refuge in Germany, where the artist is based. She collaborates with Quetta-based photographer Asef, who is working on assembling a book of photographs that offer a glimpse into private moments in Hazara homes: images that reveal personal stories of loss and resilience.