Festivals

Amman 2025: The Awards

Amman 2025: The Awards

Jul 11, 2025 | ,

Lotfi Achour’s chilling psychodrama of a young shepherd who witnesses ISIS behead his cousin won the top prize at the 6th Amman Int. FIlm Festival – Awal Film.

From Ground Zero +

From Ground Zero +

Jul 10, 2025 | ,

In ‘From Ground Zero +’ the project organized by Rashid Masharawi collects new documentary testimony giving voice to Palestinians living in the midst of war, in which four directors vividly describe the atmosphere of fear and suffering in Gaza today.

Mother of Schools

Mother of Schools

Jul 10, 2025 | ,

 A prestigious boys’ high school between Amman and the Dead Sea finds itself torn asunder in a growing divide between traditional teaching methods and the digital revolution, added to political tensions as the war intensifies in Gaza, in the Jordanian documentary ‘Mother of Schools’.

Tales from the Magic Garden

Tales from the Magic Garden

Jul 7, 2025 | ,

A delightful bouquet of children’s tales, told in stop-motion animation, gently broaches the theme of accepting death and loss in ‘Tales from the Magic Garden’, adapted from the stories of beloved Czech playwright Arnost Goldflam.

Algiers

Algiers

Jul 5, 2025 | ,

A hard-boiled cop thriller set in Algiers, Chakib Taleb-Bendiab’s debut feature about the race to find a kidnapped street girl packs a lot of fast-paced action, but its momentum hits the wall of an underdeveloped storyline and overly familiar stock characters.

Songs of Adam

Songs of Adam

Jul 4, 2025 | ,

A magical film about time and history, told through the eyes of a Peter Pan farm boy who refuses to grow up, Oday Rasheed’s ‘Songs of Adam’ masterfully evokes a timeless Iraqi society of Mesopotamian farmers from post-WW2 to the present.

Awards Corner

Festivals

  • El Gouna for
    The Blind Man Who Did Not Want to See the Titanic (Finland)
    Director: Teemu Nikki
  • Fespaco for
    The Gravedigger's Wife (Somalia)
    Director: Khadar Ayderus Ahmed
  • Morelia for
    50 or Two Whales Meet on the Beach (Mexico)
    Director: Jorge Cuchi
  • Thessaloniki for Golden Alexander
    Softie (France)
    Samuel Theis
  • IDFA for
    Mr. Landsbergis (Lithuania, Netherlands)
    Director: Sergei Loznitsa
  • Tallinn for Award
    Dear Thomas (Germany)
    Director: Andreas Kleinert
  • Cairo for
    The Hole in the Fence (Mexico, Poland)
    Director: Joaquin del Paso
  • Rotterdam for
    Eami (Paraguay)
    Director: Paz Encina
  • Berlin for
    Alcarras (Spain, Italy)
    Director: Carla Simon
  • Tallinn for Award
    Immersion (Chile, Mexico)
    Director: Nicolás Postiglione