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Films

NNarrative Competition

Director: Ramin Bahrani
USA | English
2014 | 112min.

NNarrative Competition

99 Homes
MENA Premiere

Desperate to save his family home, an unemployed construction worker (Andrew Garfield) joins an unscrupulous realtor (Michael Shannon) in the dirty business of foreclosing on the disenfranchised, in this enthralling and timely drama from acclaimed director Ramin Bahrani. Director: Ramin Bahrani
USA | English
2014 | 112min.
NNarrative Competition

Director: Susanne Bier
Denmark | Danish, Swedish
2014 | 105min.

NNarrative Competition

A Second Chance
( En chance til )
MENA Premiere

A veteran police officer with a wife and a new baby makes a fateful decision when he comes into contact again with a pair of junkie parents in a morally complex drama from Susanne Bier, the Academy Award–winning director of In a Better World. Director: Susanne Bier
Denmark | Danish, Swedish
2014 | 105min.
NNarrative Competition

Director: Diao Yinan
China,  Hong Kong | Mandarin
2014 | 106min.

NNarrative Competition

Black Coal, Thin Ice
( Bai ri yan huo )
MENA Premiere

The grisly discovery of several corpses in a Northern China town results in the dismissal of detective Zhang, who becomes determined to solve the case on his own. In this noirish thriller suffused with moral ambiguity, his attraction to a mysterious femme fatale puts his life in danger. Director: Diao Yinan
China,  Hong Kong | Mandarin
2014 | 106min.
NNarrative Competition

Director: Ibrahim El-Batout
Egypt,  United Arab Emirates | Arabic
2014 | 92min.

NNarrative Competition

El Ott
World Premiere

Egyptian gangster El Ott divorces his wife and leaves his family soon after his daughter is mysteriously abducted. He is in a race against time when he discovers that a notorious mobster has recently kidnapped street children from his neighbourhood in order to sell their organs. Director: Ibrahim El-Batout
Egypt,  United Arab Emirates | Arabic
2014 | 92min.
NNarrative Competition

Director: Hicham Ayouch
Morocco,  France,  United Arab Emirates,  Qatar | French
2014 | 90min.

NNarrative Competition

Fevers
( Fièvres )
Middle East Premiere

Benjamin is at war with the world. In his 13 years, he has known only violence and foster homes. On the day his mother is sent to prison, Benjamin learns that he has a father and goes to live with him in the working-class suburbs of Paris. Director: Hicham Ayouch
Morocco,  France,  United Arab Emirates,  Qatar | French
2014 | 90min.
NNarrative Competition

Director: Hong Sang-soo
South Korea | English, Korean
2014 | 66min.

NNarrative Competition

Hill of Freedom
( Jayuui Eondeok )
MENA Premiere

A lovelorn Japanese man travels to Seoul to reunite with the woman he still yearns for, but she is gone, and they may never see each other again. A delightful tale of thwarted love told with the unique, gentle wit of Korean master Hong Sang-soo. In competition in Venice.Director: Hong Sang-soo
South Korea | English, Korean
2014 | 66min.
NNarrative Competition

Director: Saverio Costanzo
Italy | English
2014 | 109min.

NNarrative Competition

Hungry Hearts
MENA Premiere

Mina and Jude, a young married couple in New York, engage in a struggle over the life of their newborn child in this eerie, claustrophobic suspense drama with a shocking denouement. Winner, best actor and best actress awards at the Venice Film Festival.Director: Saverio Costanzo
Italy | English
2014 | 109min.
NNarrative Competition

Director: Eugène Green
France,  Italy | French, Italian
2014 | 105min.

NNarrative Competition

La Sapienza
MENA Premiere

A brilliant but bitterly disappointed architect seeks refuge and spiritual renewal by traveling to Italy to study the magnificent, spellbinding structures of his favorite architect Francesco Borromini. An encounter with a young would-be architect transforms the trip into an experience of self discovery and healing. Director: Eugène Green
France,  Italy | French, Italian
2014 | 105min.
NNarrative Competition

Director: Andrey Zvyagintsev
Russia | Russian
2014 | 141min.

NNarrative Competition

Leviathan
MENA Premiere

In a village in Northern Russia Kolia runs his auto repair shop and enjoys the beautiful land that has surrounded him since birth. But he now must face off against powerful political boss Vadim, who covets his land and will stop at nothing to get it.Director: Andrey Zvyagintsev
Russia | Russian
2014 | 141min.
NNarrative Competition

Director: Shawkat Amin Korki
Iraq,  Germany,  Qatar | Kurdish, Arabic, Farsi
2014 | 97min.

NNarrative Competition

Memories on Stone
( Bîranînêm li ser kevirî )
MENA Premiere

After the fall of Saddam, childhood friends Hussein and Alan decide to make a film about the genocide of Iraqi Kurds in 1988. To tell the truth and to come to terms with their own identity, it`s worth putting everything on the line, even their lives. Director: Shawkat Amin Korki
Iraq,  Germany,  Qatar | Kurdish, Arabic, Farsi
2014 | 97min.
NNarrative Competition

Director: Ghassan Salhab
Lebanon,  France,  Germany,  Qatar,  United Arab Emirates | Arabic
135min.

NNarrative Competition

Narrative Competition Winner - The Valley
( الوادي )

After surviving a car crash on a lonely road in the middle of Lebanon’s isolated Bekaa Valley, an amnesiac man finds himself held hostage in the tense, eerie atmosphere of a local farm that doubles as an illegal drug production facility.Director: Ghassan Salhab
Lebanon,  France,  Germany,  Qatar,  United Arab Emirates | Arabic
135min.
NNarrative Competition

Director: Shinya Tsukamoto
Japan | Japanese
2014 | 87min.

NNarrative Competition

Nobi (Fires on the Plain)
( Nobi )
MENA Premiere

Theiconic director of Tetsuo depicts the horrors of war to a hallucinatory degree perhaps never before seen on a movie screen.The story of agroup of Japanese soldiers lost on a Filipino island during WWIItakes on universal meaning and becomes astrong statement against all wars.Director: Shinya Tsukamoto
Japan | Japanese
2014 | 87min.
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