Behind The Mountains
The story of a man who violently breaks free from his banal environment, evading society with its principles, codes and institutions.

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Empty Nets
A man and a woman from two different social classes keep their relationship a secret as the man struggles to raise a dowry.
Goodbye Julia
Wracked by guilt after covering up a murder, Mona — a northern Sudanese retired singer in a tense marriage — tries to make amends by taking in the deceased’s southern Sudanese widow, Julia, and her son, Daniel, into her home.
Hesitation Wound
A criminal lawyer faces difficult moral and emotional choices.
Hounds
A fateful night in the life of a father and son after a kidnapping goes awry.

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Inshallah A Boy
A mother fights for her rights in a partriachal system after her husband's death.
In Camera
An actor struggles with the various roles he is juggling in life.

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Sky Peals
A lonely man starts to piece together the story of his estranged father after his death and discovers the older man didn't believe he was human.

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Yellow
In Taliban controlled Afghanistan, Laili walks into a Chadari store in Kabul to buy her first full body veil and face a new future.
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