Festival Programme

Films by Language

Arabic

Fantastic Machine

Axel Danielson, Maximilien Van Aertryck

Leaping between Georges Méliès, Leni Riefenstahl, Ted Turner, YouTubers, and the Earth as a pale blue dot, this fascinating, foreboding documentary examines the world as we see it—and ourselves within it—through photography.

Inshallah a Boy

Inshallah walad

Amjad Al Rasheed

The injustices of a patriarchal power system are laid bare in this Jordanian debut as a widow takes drastic measures in order to avoid losing her home and inheritance to her in-laws because she hasn’t conceived a son.