No one tells a story like the Middle East. It starts softly, almost in a whisper and before you know it, you’re holding your breath.

Normal

The refugee tragedy of recent years inspires Abbe Hassan for a shocking directorial feature debut, a journey into the brightest light and the deepest darkness of the human condition.

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A Syrian girl flees to Turkey, bound for Sweden and reunification with her sisters and parents. After a raid by the Turkish immigration authorities she is rescued by one of the smugglers who organized her escape. The seemingly mismatched duo begin their journey to freedom.

Exodus

Simplistically made and rich in content, Kiarostami's in-car digital experiment defies prohibitions and brings to the surface secrets and lies of the Iranian society, especially those related to the weak, in the eyes of the authorities, sex.

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Abbas Kiarostami delivers a visual social experiment in the form of dialogues between an Iranian female driver and the people she hosts in her car, a closed micrograph about the country's society.

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Official Selection | Cannes Film Festival | 2002

Love knows no age nor political conflicts in this unexpected romantic comedy from Palestine that embraces us from the very first moment with its sweet melancholy, tenderness and humour.

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Gaza, today. A 65-year-old fisherman, secretly in love with a melancholy widow, accidentally catches an ancient Greek statue of Apollo and his life takes an unexpectedly surreal turn.

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NETPAC Award for Best Asian Film | Toronto International Film Festival | 2020
Best Screenplay | Valladolid International Film Festival | 2020
Best Film | Valladolid International Film Festival | 2020

Gaza Mon Amour

Golden Palm winner in Cannes in 1975 for an epic and meticulous account of the Algerian war starring our own Yorgo Voyagis, presented here restored with the conrtibution of Martin Scorsese's Film Foundation.

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A meticulous chronicle of the development of the Algerian nationalist movement from 1939 until the start of the revolution on 1 November 1954. Ahmed gradually awakens to political consciousness against colonization, under the gaze of his son, symbol of the new Algeria.

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Palme d'Or | Cannes Film Festival | 1975

Chronicle of the Years of Fire

Based on real events, this film admirably walks the line between its political perspective and the tropes of the mystery genre. Solid and well-written characters, excellent performances and a must-see movie for fans of whodunits.

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A few weeks before the Egyptian Revolution, an officer in the corrupt Cairo police force is investigating the death of a young singer. What initially seems like a crime of passion has much deeper implications that reach all the way up to the country's power elite. The high-ranking police officer will break the rules in the name of justice, clashing with the status quo and his own belief system.

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Grand Jury Prize | Sundance Film Festival | 2017

The Nile Hilton Incident

The first film shot in Saudi Arabia was not only directed by a woman, but it focuses on something unthinkable: a girl who wants to have a bike. It’s realist, humane, disarming and even revolutionary.

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A determined 12-year-old girl lives in the capital of Saudi Arabia. She's fallen in love with a green bike and she'll do anything to get it. She will have to face a lot of obstacles, the biggest of all being that in her country it is considered immoral for a girl to ride a bike.

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Interfilm Award | Venice Film Festival | 2012
C.I.C.A.E. Award | Venice Film Festival | 2012 
CinemAvvenire Award | Venice Film Festival | 2012

Wadjda

Another honest drama from the talented director Asghar Farhadi, awarded by the Academy with the Oscar for Best Foreign Language Film. A story so powerful that it touches your soul.

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A couple is forced to leave their Tehran apartment, which is falling to pieces, and move into another one. While working together on the production of the play "Death of a Salesman", their relationship begins to change.

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Best Foreign Language Film | Oscars | 2017
Best Actor (Shahab Hosseini) | Cannes Film Festival | 2016
Best Screenplay | Cannes Film Festival | 2016

The Salesman

The most important film of the year depicts the long and bloody war in Gaza through the desperate attempt to rescue a 6-year-old girl trapped in her family's car. A harrowing room thriller, it uses the real audio recordings of little Hind, as recorded at the Palestinian Red Crescent call center, with producers Joaquin Phoenix, Jonathan Glazer, and Brad Pitt.

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January 29, 2024. Red Crescent volunteers receive an emergency call. A 6-year old girl is trapped in a car under fire in Gaza, pleading for rescue. While trying to keep her on the line, they do everything they can to get an ambulance to her. Her name was Hind Rajab.

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Nomination for Best Foreign Language Film | Oscars | 2026
Nomination for Best Non-English Language Film | Golden Globes | 2026
Grand Jury Prize | Venice Film Festival | 2025
Silver Hugo - Jury Prize | Chicago International Film Festival | 2025
Audience Award | San Sebastián International Film Festival | 2025
Official Selection | Toronto International Film Festival | 2025

The Voice of Hind Rajab

Life and art merge in a wonderful recording of a love story on and off-camera, a rare parallel and two-fold approach to the concept of erotic desire that survives in the wreckage of an earthquake-stricken region.

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The relationship between Abbas Kiarostami and his actors during the filming of his previous film "And Life Goes On", focusing on the film's newly married couple and the actor's attempt to actually marry his co-worker.

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Official Selection | Cannes Film Festival | 1994
Silver Hugo Best Film | Chicago International Film Festival | 1994
Critics Award | São Paulo International Film Festival | 1994

Through the Olive Trees

Golden Bear at the 2020 Berlin Film Festival and of course banned in Iran, Mohammad Rasoulof's dynamite film, which inevitably led to the director's imprisonment, is a stormy political denunciation drama that seeks humanity in an inhuman country.

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Four stories with the death penalty as a common theme in contemporary Iran reveal the unrelenting moral dilemmas and the political and social deadlocks in a regime of intolerance.

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Golden Bear | Berlin Film Festival | 2020
Prize of the Ecumenical Jury | Berlin Film Festival | 2020

There is no Evil

Iranian Saeed Roustayi emerges as one of his country's most important directors, directing a sweeping family drama that manages to reveal the dead ends of a deeply patriarchal society.

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A forty-year-old woman that lives in the suffocating environment of her father and four brothers tries to stand up against it and find ways for the family to survive the economic crisis that is plaguing Iran.

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FIPRESCI Prize | Cannes Film Festival | 2022

Leila's Brothers

Forgotten for years and banned by the Islamic regime, this gem of the Iranian new wave reveals a hypnotically stylized mystery and period drama, combining Kubrick, Parajanov, Gothic horror and Persian tradition.

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After the death of his wife, a corrupt merchant plans to get rid of his stepdaughter and heir to the estate. The young girl, a modern and emancipated woman, asks her maid for help, unaware that the latter is a player on both sides.

Chess of the Wind

The Israeli director Michal Vinik surprises the festival world with a well-crafted chamber drama, which with escalating tension and with the help of an excellent script reveals how far gender equality still is. Silver Alexander Meet the Neighbors award at the 63rd Thessaloniki Film Festival.

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Valeria, a young Ukrainian, arrives in Israel to meet her future husband. Their wedding has been arranged online - just like the wedding of the girl's older sister, who has already been married in Israel for years. But nothing will run smoothly after this arrival.

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Official Selection - Orizzonti | Venice Film Festival | 2022
Silver Alexander - Meet the Neighbours | Thessaloniki Film Festival |2022

Valeria Is Getting Married

Altman's "Short Cuts" meets Marjane Satrapi's "Persepolis" and the aesthetic success of rotoscopic animation. The parallel love, escape and exploitation stories of three women in modern-day Tehran where sex and desire are still a taboo.

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In Tehran, a city full of social restrictions and religious laws, any crime is followed by harsh punishment. But the thirst for life makes people crave freedom. The lives of three women from different social backgrounds and a young musician will intersect in order to fight the system’s hypocrisy and contradictions.

Tehran Taboo

Palestinian director, Amin Naife’s fiction debut, which won awards at the Thessaloniki Film Festival, captures with intensity, passion and unrelenting pace the family – and not only – drama of a divided people.

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The Israeli wall in the West Bank has separated a man from his family. When he finds out his son’s been in an accident, he hurries to his side, but a bureaucratic technicality at the checkpoint denies him entry. 200 meters will become an odyssey of 200 kilometers.

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Best Film - Meet the Neighbours | Thessaloniki Film Festival | 2020
Best Director - Meet the Neighbours | Thessaloniki International Film Festival | 2020
BNL People's Choice Audience Award | Venice Film Festival | 2020

200 Meters

A humorous, earnest connection of the dispute between Israel and Palestine with modern soap opera, the elements of which simultaneously divide and unite the two nations as the story unfolds. Winner of the Acting Award in Venice.

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Salaam, a 30-year-old Palestinian, living in Jerusalem, travels to Ramala every day for the shooting of the popular soap opera “Tel Aviv on Fire”. At the Israeli army checkpoint he meets Assi, whose wife is a huge fan of the show. In order to impress her, Assi tries to get involved in the script-writing process and Salaam soon realized that Assi’s ideas may get him a promotion to screenwriter. His career skyrockets until Assi and the producers disagree about the ending.

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Best Actor (Kais Nashif) - Orizzonti | Venice Film Festival | 2018
Interfilm Award for Best Film | Venice International Film Festival

Tel Aviv on Fire

The great Abbas Kiarostami directed several masterpieces and this is one of them. Ηis art and his steadfast, implicit ethics bloom in all their glory. With his usual surgical precision and compassion, he produces a cinematic treasure that speaks to the heart.

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A jeep runs through the hills of Kurdistan. An engineer and his two assistants are looking for a small village in the mountains. When they arrive, a young boy welcomes them, shows them where to stay and guides the engineer to an old, (sort of) dying woman's house. No one in the village knows what the engineer wants. Is he looking for archaeological finds? Does he want the old lady's property? Meanwhile, he spends his time getting to know the locals.

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CinemAvvenire' Award | Venice Film Festival | 1999
FIPRESCI Prize | Venice Film Festival | 1999
Grand Special Jury Prize | Venice Film Festival | 1999

The Wind will Carry us

In one of the most original directorial debuts in recent years, the Egyptian Omar El Zohairy surreally dissects the situation in his country, through an imaginative allegory. Cannes Critics' Week Grand Prize and Minority Production Iris Award by the Hellenic Film Academy.

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When a magic trick goes wrong at a children's party, the strict father of the family is transformed into a chicken. An avalanche of strange coincidences drags everyone down. The mother, who lived a monotonous life devoted to her husband and children, is forced to be on the front line and take care of the family.

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Grand Prize | Critic's Week | 2021
FIPRESCI Prize | Critic's Week | 2021

Feathers

An impressive directorial debut from Tunisia, in a multi-layered story that begins on the pretext of family drama, leaving a dynamic set of social and political commentary to subtly emerge.

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A couple and their son fall victim of a terrorist attack. 11 year-old Aziz is seriously injured and while the parents do everything they can to find an organ donor to save his life, a family secret will be revealed, endangering their son’s life.

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Best Actor (Sami Bouajila) - Orizzonti | Venice Film Festival | 2019
OPANDA Jury Prize | French Film Festival of Greece | 2021
FISCHER Audience Award | French Film Festival of Greece | 2021

A Son

The production company of "The triplets of Belleville" presents a story of youthful love in Taliban-ruled Kabul, portrayed through an impressive handmade animation technique based on the movements of real actors. Nominated for the Un Certain Regard section of the Cannes Festival.

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Summer of 1998, Kabul is under Taliban rule. Zunaira and Mohsen are young and in love. Despite the daily violence and misery, they hope for a better future. One day, a senseless gesture makes their lives take an irrevocable turn.

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Official Selection | Cannes Film Festival | 2017

The Swallows of Kabul

Two awards at the 2025 Cannes Film Festival, including the Camera d’Or for Best First Feature, for this year’s festival gem. An audience-friendly, bittersweet, and tender tragicomedy from Iraq that transforms childhood innocence into an act of resistance against political brutality.

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The 1990s. Under Saddam Hussein’s strict dictatorship and the severe economic impact of international sanctions, a nine-year-old girl is chosen by her school to make the President’s mandatory birthday cake. A perilous task, carrying the risk of imprisonment or corporal punishment in case of failure. Will she succeed when she lacks even the most basic necessities?

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Golden Camera | Cannes Film Festival | 2025
Audience Award - Directors' Fortnight | Cannes Film Festival | 2025
Audience Award | Athens International Film Festival | 2025

The President's Cake

A brilliantly stylized ode to paradox and fate; a snide attack on the absurdity of war and the political responsibilities surrounding it. Israeli Samuel Maoz's masterpiece ("Lebanon") that angered his country's leadership and was awarded the Grand Jury Prize at Venice Film Festival.

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Michael and Daphna break down when their son's death is announced to them. While she tries to get over her grief with antidepressants and Michael plunges into rage, an unexpected twist, comparable to their son’s surreal military experiences, will occur.

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City of Athens Award - Best Director | Athens International Film Festival | 2017
Arca Cinema Giovani Award for Best Film | Venice Film Festival | 2017
SIGNIS Award | Honorable Mention | Venice Film Festival | 2017
Best Director | Venice Film Festival | 2017

Foxtrot

Does History repeat itself as a tragedy or as a farce? In Houman Seyyedi's shocking film, which won two prizes at the Venice Film Festival, the shocking climax and the unrepeatable final scene provide the answer.

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A poor and homeless laborer is hired to build the sets for a film about Hitler's atrocities during World War II. Unexpectedly, he will be given a role, but then his life will be derailed with irreparable consequences.

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Orizzonti Best Film Award | Venice Film Festival | 2022
Special Jury Prize | Tokyo Film Festival | 2022

World War III

The already classic adaptation of Marjane Satrapi's graphic novel to the big screen by its creator, remains to this day a beautiful and timeless complaint about the oppression of women and the revolutionary need for creation and expression.

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A nine-year-old girl grows up with her progressive family in the late 70s Tehran, during the period of the fall of the Shah and the rise of the Islamic revolution’s religious fanaticism.

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Nomination for Best Animated Feature | Oscars | 2008
Jury Prize | Cannes Film Festival | 2007
Best Adapted Screenplay | César Awards | 2008 
Best First Film | César Awards | 2008 
Audience Award | Rotterdam Film Festival | 2008

Persepolis

Kiarostami's fame crossed Iran's borders long ago, and his first film in the West was a wonderful story that drew inspiration from this aesthetic "moving". A lesson of adaptation to new conditions without altering the characteristics of the great director.

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When a British writer arrives in Tuscany to present his book and give a lecture, an art lover seeking for a meaningful conversation with him, decides to give him her phone number with the hope of meeting up with him later. Although their first meeting is awkward, gradually, the discussion progresses from formal to more personal. The atmosphere becomes more intimate and their relationship more affectionate. Have they met before?

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Official Selection | Cannes Film Festival | 2010
Best Actress (Juliette Binoche) | Cannes Film Festival | 2010