First Feature

First Feature 2018

10.00

Working underground in the year before the legalization of cinema in Saudi Arabia, a team of mostly women makes its first feature film. Anonymous accounts of their experience are brought together in a melancholic narration. In the spirit of first films, a filmmaker documents the production in Jeddah with his first video camera from childhood.

2018

Captain Majid

Captain Majid 2009

7.00

Majid fights his own coach for Faiza's heart and the dream of playing international football.

2009

Faisal Goes West

Faisal Goes West 2013

10.00

When he makes a mistake that sends his family into a financial crunch, Faisal abandons his dreams of American university to work on a chicken farm.

2013

Oustaz

Oustaz 2016

10.00

After the death of his Arabic teacher, an American-born filmmaker in the northern African country of Chad revisits home videos to explore the moment they started making movies together.

2016

Revolution from Afar

Revolution from Afar 2020

10.00

Sudanese-American poets and musicians engage in performances and a conversation around third culture identity and the revolution in Sudan, from which they have been physically cut off.

2020