2025 MENA Film Festival

Aspirations Bundle

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8 films in package
Ayam Zaman - The Old Days
A coming of age film about the challenges of true friendship.
Jamila
While reluctantly preparing at a beauty salon for a wedding, a Palestinian American teenager clashes with her family members, challenging her assumptions about culture and femininity.
NYA
Suburb of Algiers, 1994. Anya, 7 years old, lives her life as a little girl, largely unaware of the tensions of the civil war tearing the country apart. She has only one wish: for her father, a journalist on a mission, to return in time for the Mouloud celebration. But the harsh reality gradually seeps into her daily life, causing her childhood innocence to waver.
Nalashi
Witness a mother and her daughter engaging in their Saturday afternoon ritual of drinking hashar qahwa.
Practical Portals
Practical Portals is an experimental, moving-image series documenting a journey of embodied healing.
Sea Salt
On this hot summer day, 17-year-old Nayla is faced with the same dilemma every Lebanese youngster is faced: to leave or to stay
Fatmé
In Lebanon, 11-year-old Syrian Fatmé navigates the complexities of identity and strength, determined to prove that she can be both a girl and a warrior.
A Swing in Atayfiyah/تتبغدد عليه
An observational documentary of Iraq shot on super 8 paired with Baba's interview of what home is to him.
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Told through somatic performance, oral prose, and solfeggio frequencies, Practical Portals is an experimental, moving-image series documenting a journey of embodied healing. Guided by the natural elements, each of the five vignettes welcomes viewers into an interior portal to reimagine belonging, memory and ancestry. This work asks: What do I need to remember?

  • Year
    2022
  • Runtime
    13.93 minutes
  • Language
    English, Arabic
  • Country
    United States, Sudan
  • Director
    Marwa Eltahir
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