Programme 16

Another Point of View (2019)
Director: Bilal Al Khatib
Palestine
Narrative | 15 min
Arabic with English subtitles

Siblings Fadel and Najeeba have an exceptional relationship. Fadel has a so-called ‘mental illness’, and Najeeba perceives reality in her own way—not in response to her brother’s situation, but rather because life, as she sees it, is much simpler than it seems, simple enough that it does not matter how people in their village judge her and her brother.

Split (2018)
Director: Ghassen Mejri
Tunisia
Narrative | 10 min
Arabic with English subtitles

After a painful experience, a man becomes a scavenger in the streets of Tunis. This status revives existentialist thoughts from his past.

The Delivery (2018)
Director: Yazan Al Ghazzawi
Jordan
Narrative | 23 min
Arabic with English subtitles

In a troubled (fictional) Middle Eastern country, the President goes into hiding after receiving threats from a rebel faction. Delivery man Mustafa inadvertently stumbles upon the President’s hiding place—an apartment in a run-down corner of the city. He is immediately taken for an assassin and interrogated by the fiercely loyal Captain Amin. Little do both of them know that Mustafa’s appearance is no coincidence at all.

Fat Fish (2019)
Director: Cody Ziglar
United States of America
Narrative | 4 min
English with English subtitles

Fat Fish is a surreal comedy following a party-goer who makes the grave mistake of asking the house DJ to change the music.

Dunya’s Day (2019)
Director: Raed Alsemari
Saudi Arabia
Narrative | 14 min
Arabic with English subtitles

Dunya’s perfectly planned graduation party spirals towards disaster when she is abandoned by all her household help.

For the Sake of Yousef (2018)
Director: Yousef Al Bagshi
Kuwait
Narrative | 5 min
Arabic with English subtitles

In the living room, Yousef's mother turns on the television to watch a horror film while the five-year-old Yousef is playing there.