Films

Winner, Best Documentary Feature Film, 2014 In 1988, the Iraqi Ba’ath party murdered and buried 182,000 Kurds in 350 mass graves in a genocide known…

Wang Han, 11 year old boy in the province of Ghizhou is confronted with a runaway murderer. Hiding in the woods, the wounded man takes…

A theatre director, specialising in working with disadvantaged and traumatised people, Zeina Daccache struggled to set up Lebanon’s first prison-based drama project in the country’s…

Winner, Artistic Acknowledgement, 2017 In his last film, 24 Frames, Abbas Kiarostami took up a unique challenge: to create a dialogue between his work as…

In a country where sexuality has become a vulgarity, a man sees his wife, Suddhi, nude for the first time only as she lays dead…

Filmed during the massive Israeli war on Lebanon in the summer of 2006, 33 Days follows the real-life stories of four people: a theatre director…

Winner, Best Animated Feature Film, 2007 5 Centimeters Per Second is a serial short animation consisting of three independent works, all of which are depicted with…

Teenager Billie thinks she knows everything about her mother so she is surprised when she learns of her mother’s plan to transition from woman to…

63 Years On focuses on Korean women forced into sexual slavery by the Japanese military during World War II. During the war, an estimated 200,000…

Winner, Best Children’s Feature Film, 2009 Seoul, 1975. A brand new pair of shoes shines on the feet of nine-year-old Jinhee. Thrilled with the unexpected…

Set against China’s bleak provincial wastelands, a 13-year-old boy receives a letter from his absent mother and sets off alone in search of her. Leaving…

When a boy is murdered in a Kazakh village, Detective Bekzat wants to wrap up the inquiries quickly. And why wouldn’t he? After all, the…