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Aliah
Valentino Bedini | 2013
Italy | 5 min | 8+ years | No dialogue
A young girl living in a war-torn Middle Eastern country dreams of a new life in this soulful animation.
Topics: Conflict & Resolution, Middle East / Gulf
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Ana Ana
Corinne van Egeraat, Petr Lom | 2013
Netherlands | 75 min | Arabic with English subtitles | 
A cinematic poem about four young creative women in an Egypt, where the dreams of the revolution have begun to unravel, and where women’s rights are extremely vulnerable.
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The Big House
Musa Syeed | 2014
United States, Yemen | 5 min | 8+ years | Arabic with English subtitles |
When a Yemeni boy finds a key to the empty mansion down the street, he lets himself and his imagination run wild in the big house.
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crISIS
Ali Kareem Obaid | 2015
Italy | 10 min | 12+ years | Arabic with English subtitles |
A searing account of a man who is burdened by grief and post-traumatic stress after losing his wife to a suicide bomb in Baghdad.
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Dead End
Ahmed Aboub | 2012
Libya, United Kingdom | 9 min | 12+ years | Arabic with English subtitles |
Libya’s political chaos makes its territory a land of opportunity for human smugglers. Thousands of illegal migrants end up forgotten, in one of the 19 detention centres.
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Facing the Dragon
Sedika Mojadidi | 2018
Afghanistan, Australia, Germany... | 80 min | 15+ years | Afghan Persian with English subtitles |
Screened as part of TOAFF19
As American forces and aid leave Afghanistan, Afghan-American filmmaker Sedika Mojadidi crafts an intimate portrait of two awe-inspiring women: Nilofar, a member of parliament, and Shakila, a television journalist.
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Gods of Molenbeek
Reetta Huhtanen | 2019
72 min | 8+ years | Arabic, Finnish, French... with English subtitles |
Does God exist? What happens when we die?
This intimate portrait of two young boys living in the ethnically diverse Brussels neighbourhood of Molenbeek offers a playful meditation on childhood, faith and friendship – while paying tribute to community cohesion.
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Gold
Abbe Hassan | 2017
Sweden | 20 min | 12+ years | Arabic with English subtitles |
Screened as part of TOAFF18
An unexpected discovery splinters three sisters’ fragile existence.
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I am Not Afraid of the Soldiers
Rinske Bosch | 2015
Israel, Palestine | 20 min | 8+ years | Arabic with English subtitles |
Screened as part of TOAFF16
Yazan, a 13 year old boy living in a Palestinian refugee camp, doesn’t want to live in fear of the patrolling Israeli soldiers anymore so he creates a poster telling his story – but will they listen?
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Journey of a Sofa
Alaa Al Ali | 2014
Lebanon | 9 min | 12+ years | Arabic with English subtitles |
Transporting a newly bought sofa to your home should be an easy task, but in the Shatila refugee camp in Lebanon it becomes a mammoth and complex task
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Midnight Traveler
Hassan Fazili | 2019
Canada, Qatar, United States | 87 min | 12+ years | English, Bulgarian, Persian... with English subtitles |
Screened as part of TOAFF19
When the Taliban puts a bounty on Afghan director Hassan Fazili’s head, he is forced to flee with his wife and two young daughters.