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• Palestine 36 2025 Film Films DenmarkFranceUnited Kingdom

  Palestine 36.

• Once Upon a Time in Gaza 2025 Film Films GermanyFrancePalestinian Territories

  The Nasser brothers' new film about life, resistance and joy in Gaza; screened at 2025 festivals.

• The Voice of Hind Rajab 2025 Film Films FrancePalestinian TerritoriesTunisia

  The Voice of Hind Rajab.

• From Ground Zero 2024 Documentary Films United Arab EmiratesFrancePalestinian Territories

  From Ground Zero.

• Four Daughters 2023 Documentary Films GermanyFranceTunisia

  Kaouther Ben Hania's docudrama on Tunisian mother Olfa Hamrouni, whose two daughters left to join ISIS in Libya — Oscar-nominated for best documentary.

• Goodbye Julia 2023 Film Films GermanyEgyptFrance

  Goodbye Julia.

• Bye Bye Tiberias 2023 Documentary Films BelgiumFrancePalestinian Territories

  Bye Bye Tiberias.

• The Blue Caftan 2022 Film Films BelgiumDenmarkFrance

  Maryam Touzani's film about a caftan tailor in Salé and his wife Mina; a quiet human drama on love and concealment in Moroccan craft.

• Dounia and the Princess of Aleppo 2022 Animation Films CanadaFranceSyria

  Dounia and the Princess of Aleppo.

• Mediterranean Fever 2022 Film Films SwitzerlandCyprusGermany

  Maha Haj's black comedy about a Palestinian writer in Haifa befriending his thieving neighbour; Cannes screenplay winner.

• Boy from Heaven 2022 Film Films DenmarkFinlandFrance

  Tarik Saleh's film about an al-Azhar student drawn into a power-and-faith struggle after the Grand Imam's death; Cannes screenplay winner.

• Casablanca Beats 2021 Film Films FranceMorocco

  Casablanca Beats.

• Flee 2021 Documentary Films DenmarkFranceNorway

  Flee.

• Let It Be Morning 2021 Film Films FranceIsrael

  Let It Be Morning.

• The Gravedigger's Wife 2021 Film Films GermanyFinlandFrance

  The Gravedigger's Wife.

• Quo Vadis, Aida? 2020 Film Films AustriaBosnia & HerzegovinaFrance

  Quo Vadis, Aida?.

• Gaza mon amour 2020 Film Films GermanyFrancePalestinian Territories

  The Nasser brothers' film about an ageing Gaza fisherman who falls in love amid the blockade; Palestine's Oscar entry.

• Adam 2019 Film Films BelgiumFranceMorocco

  Adam.

• The Cave 2019 Documentary Films GermanyDenmarkFrance

  The Cave.

• The Unknown Saint 2019 Film Films FranceMorocco

  Alaa Eddine Aljem's Moroccan comedy about a thief who buries his loot in a fake grave that becomes a popular shrine — a wry look at folk religiosity.

• You Will Die at Twenty 2019 Film Films GermanyEgyptFrance

  You Will Die at Twenty.

• Atlantics 2019 Film Films BelgiumGermanyFrance

  Atlantics.

• Papicha 2019 Film Films BelgiumAlgeriaFrance

  Papicha.

• It Must Be Heaven 2019 Film Films CanadaGermanyFrance

  Elia Suleiman's film of travels between Palestine, Paris and New York; a near-silent visual comedy on Palestinian identity.

• The Swallows of Kabul 2019 Animation Films SwitzerlandFranceLuxembourg

  The Swallows of Kabul.

• Capernaum 2018 Film Films CyprusFranceUnited Kingdom

  Capernaum.

• Tel Aviv on Fire 2018 Film Films BelgiumFranceIsrael

  Comedy about a Palestinian soap writer crossing an Israeli checkpoint who must satisfy an intelligence officer on the ending; festival-winning.

• The Insult 2017 Film Films FranceLebanon

  Ziad Doueiri's film about a Lebanese Christian and a Palestinian refugee whose dispute becomes a national trial reopening civil-war wounds — Lebanon's first Oscar nominee.

• Insyriated 2017 Film Films BelgiumFranceLebanon

  Insyriated.

• Mimosas 2016 Film Films SpainFranceMorocco

  Mimosas.

• Mustang 2015 Film Films GermanyFranceQatar

  Film about five Turkish sisters facing strict custom in a Black Sea village; Oscar-nominated for Best Foreign Film.

• 3000 Nights 2015 Film Films United Arab EmiratesFranceUnited Kingdom

  3000 Nights.

• The Wanted 18 2014 Documentary Films CanadaFrancePalestinian Territories

  Palestinian documentary on eighteen cows bought by Beit Sahour townsfolk for food self-sufficiency that became a 'security threat'; a civil-resistance story.

• Timbuktu 2014 Film Films FranceMauritania

  Abderrahmane Sissako's Oscar-nominated film on Timbuktu under Ansar Dine's jihadist rule in 2012 — an indictment of violent extremism made from inside Muslim life.

• The Patience Stone 2012 Film Films AfghanistanGermanyFrance

  The Patience Stone.

• Horses of God 2012 Film Films BelgiumFranceMorocco

  Horses of God.

• Black Gold 2011 Film Films FranceQatarTunisia

  Jean-Jacques Annaud's film on the oil struggle among Arabian rulers in the 1930s; a Qatari production based on Hans Ruesch's novel.

• The Source 2011 Film Films BelgiumFranceMorocco

  Radu Mihaileanu's film about women in a Moroccan village who strike over fetching water; an Arabic social comedy.

• 5 Broken Cameras 2011 Documentary Films FranceIsraelNetherlands

  Emad Burnat's documentary on five years of Bil'in village life under the wall and settlements, told through his broken cameras; Oscar-nominated.

• Free Men 2011 Film Films France

  Ismaël Ferroukhi's film on the Grand Mosque of Paris and rector Si Kaddour Benghabrit sheltering Jews under Nazi occupation — a true story of Muslim rescue.

• Where Do We Go Now? 2011 Film Films FranceLebanon

  Nadine Labaki's film about a Lebanese village where Muslims and Christians coexist, whose women conspire to head off sectarian violence — Toronto People's Choice winner.

• Incendies 2010 Film Films CanadaFrance

  Denis Villeneuve's Oscar-nominated film about Canadian twins returning to their mother's Middle Eastern homeland, uncovering a civil war fought between Muslims and Christians.

• Son of Babylon 2010 Film Films FranceUnited KingdomIraq

  Mohamed Al-Daradji's Iraqi film about a grandmother and grandson searching for a missing man after Saddam's fall; among Iraq's best-known films.

• Outside the Law 2010 Film Films BelgiumAlgeriaFrance

  Outside the Law.

• A Prophet 2009 Film Films France

  Jacques Audiard's Cannes Grand Prix winner about a young French-Arab Muslim who rises through the prison underworld.

• London River 2009 Film Films AlgeriaFranceUnited Kingdom

  London River.

• Snow 2008 Film Films Bosnia & HerzegovinaGermanyFrance

  Snow.

• Persepolis 2007 Animation Films FranceIran

  The French-Iranian animated film of Marjane Satrapi's childhood in revolutionary and post-revolutionary Iran — Oscar-nominated.

• Buddha Collapsed Out of Shame 2007 Film Films FranceIran

  Buddha Collapsed Out of Shame.

• Caramel 2007 Film Films FranceLebanon

  Caramel.

• The Band's Visit 2007 Film Films FranceIsraelUnited States

  The Band's Visit.

• Days of Glory 2006 Film Films BelgiumAlgeriaFrance

  Days of Glory.

• Paradise Now 2005 Film Films GermanyFranceNetherlands

  Hany Abu-Assad's Oscar-nominated film about two Palestinian friends in Nablus recruited for a mission inside Israel — a debated moral drama.

• The Great Journey 2004 Film Films FranceMorocco

  Ismaël Ferroukhi's film about a Moroccan father who makes his French son drive him from France to Mecca for the hajj — the classic fictional hajj road movie.

• Turtles Can Fly 2004 Film Films FranceIraqIran

  Turtles Can Fly.

• Moolaadé 2004 Film Films Burkina FasoCameroonFrance

  Moolaadé.

• At Five in the Afternoon 2003 Film Films FranceIran

  At Five in the Afternoon.

• Abouna 2002 Film Films FranceNetherlandsChad

  Abouna.

• The Clay Bird 2002 Film Films BangladeshFrancePakistan

  The Clay Bird.

• Kandahar 2001 Film Films FranceIran

  Mohsen Makhmalbaf's film about an Afghan-Canadian journalist travelling to Kandahar to save her sister under Taliban rule; a landmark pre-2001 film on Afghanistan.

• West Beirut 1998 Film Films BelgiumGermanyFrance

  West Beirut.

• Destiny 1997 Film Films EgyptFrance

  Youssef Chahine's film about Ibn Rushd in Almohad Cordoba on the eve of the burning of his books — a deliberate parallel with 1990s Egypt and religious militancy.

• The Emigrant 1994 Film Films EgyptFrance

  Youssef Chahine's retelling of the Joseph story set in ancient Egypt; its release sparked a legal battle in Egypt over depicting Qur'anic prophets on screen.