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Coexistence, My Ass! (Country: US, France; Year: 2025; Director: Amber Fares; Writer: Rachel Leah Jones, Rabab Haj Yahya; Stars: Noam Shuster-Eliassi)
Comedian Noam Shuster Eliassi creates a personal and political one-woman show about the struggle for equality in Israel/Palestine. When the elusive coexistence she’s spent her life working toward starts sounding like a bad joke, she challenges her audiences with hard truths that are no laughing matter.
Cutting Through Rocks (Country: Qatar, Chile, Iran, Canada, Netherlands, Germany, US; Year: 2025; Director: Mohammad Reza Eyni, Sara Khaki)
As the first elected councilwoman of her Iranian village, Sara Shahverdi aims to break long-held patriarchal traditions by training teenage girls to ride motorcycles and stopping child marriages. When accusations arise questioning Sara’s intentions to empower the girls, her identity is put in turmoil.
GEN_ (Country: France, Switzerland, Italy; Year: 2025; Director: Gianluca Matarrese; Writer: Gianluca Matarrese, Donatella Della Ratta)
At Milan’s Niguarda public hospital, the unconventional Dr Bini leads a bold mission overseeing aspiring parents undergoing in vitro fertilization and the journeys of individuals reconciling their bodies with their gender identities. He navigates the constraints set by a conservative government and an aggressive market eager to commodify bodies.
Yalla Parkour (Country: Sweden, Saudi Arabia, Qatar, Palestine; Year: 2025; Director: Areeb Zuaiter; Writer: Areeb Zuaiter, Phil Jandaly, Johan Simonsson, Nino Kirtadze, Salwa Nakkara, Alex Szalat; Stars: Areeb Zuaiter, Ahmad Matar)
A documentarian revisits Gaza where she encounters a young athlete leading her to embark on a journey through Gaza's devastated landscape.
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