1. NATION ESTATE wins in Abu Dhabi and shows in Den Haag
2. BIRDS OF SEPTEMBER in Managua and Geneva

4. FREE RANGE in Rabat and Geneva
5. THE DINNER in Managua


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1. NATION ESTATE wins in Abu Dhabi and shows in Den Haag

Content
Nation Estate is a 9-minute sci-fi short offering a clinically dystopian, yet humorous approach to the deadlock in the Middle East.

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2. BIRDS OF SEPTEMBER in Managua and Geneva

Content
A glassed van roams the streets of Beirut, home to a camera that explores the city behind the glass. Along the way, several people are invited to share a personal moment in this moving confessional. Each one comes as a face, a body, a posture, a voice, an attitude, an emotion, a point of view, a memory. Their confessions are true, blunt, and intimate. However, soon enough, the van empties again, and roams Beirut; restlessly looking for something, for someone.
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Content
In her feature documentary Syrian director Liwaa Yazji explores what it means to set off in a war. She meets friends and people previously unknown to her at their homes. Domiciles where they live now or where they yet live. Spaces that turned into a sought-after commodity.
When does one leave? What does one take? What aspects of life irretrievably end with the departure? How long can one sit tight? How do people call their departure? Are they refugees? Do they move? Do they leave? Do they see themselves as displaced people? Do they just move on? What does home mean? Which rights do they lose? From which loss can they protect themselves? What can they control?
By means of her collected stories Yazji draws quasi en passant the trace of the endless refugee movements in the region of the last 70 years.
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4. FREE RANGE in Rabat and Geneva

Content
Based on actual events, Free Range is the story of a cow that crosses the border from Israel to Lebanon and meets with 16 year old Malakeh and her family. A  Lebanese Spaghetti-Western that talks about borders and power between people, religions, cows and UN interventions.
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5. THE DINNER in Managua

Content
Mais Darwazeh lives alone. In Amman, a city of uprooted people, she creates her own identity by gathering around her table close friends, chosen ingredients, and old recipes.
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Inhalt
Two men. Two worlds. And a quest for a common future in a world beset with real and imaginary boundaries. Eccomi... Eccoti unfolds as a travel-log navigating between a European reality, a barricaded promised land for homosexuals, and an Arab context where several gay characters are in limbo between seeking acceptance and a desire for exile.
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