Yasmine started as early as 14 years old as an intern on shoots and working on scripts. After studying psychology, she attended a summer training at the FEMIS in Paris.In 2006 she shot her short film, El bab, then, in 2010, her second, El djinn, in 2010.Today she also hosts a movie column on television and presents on the Internet short films she has enjoyed.

Everything is ready for the summer Ziara (pilgrimage), a time when hundreds of families come to gather on the graves of their deceased, under the protection of Sidi Boulekbour, a benevolent marabout nestled at the top of the ridge, who watches over the souls of the deceased from the surrounding villages.In the bus carrying the pilgrims is JOHER, a sixty-year-old woman who has come to gather for the first time on the grave of her sister. She meets ALI, the gravedigger and guardian of the cemetery. She asks him to help her organize her own funeral.The organization, step by step, of JOHER's future funeral, will upset ALI's daily life and the cemetery will then turn into a theater of love.

Diplômée en études supérieures de Chimie, 2ème dan et 6 fois championne d’Algérie de karaté, vice-championne d’Algérie de natation. Cette athlète accomplie n’est pas pour autant dépourvue de sensibilité. Sa passion pour la photo et son goût des ombres la mette dans la lumière puisqu’elle sera la lauréate, en 2006, du concours international de photographie «Regards croisés ». De l’Espagne au Proche-Orient, elle présente ses travaux dans le cadre d’une exposition itinérante.Elle tourne et filme son première court-métrage fiction Goulili, caméra au point et au poing elle passe de la photo au cinéma avec succès. Le film de la jeune réalisatrice séduit, fait le tour de 42 festivals internationaux et accumule 11 prix.Sous sa double casquette de réalisatrice/cadreuse elle collabore sur de multiples tournages de fictions, documentaires et reportages télé. Quelques années plus tard et après une formation aux Ateliers Varan, elle se consacre à réaliser son long-métrage documentaire de création.

This is the story of the restart of a father-daughter/coach-athlete relationship. She, a young champion in karate, he, fresh out of prison.

In a family drama that sighs to the rhythm of the events of Algeria's decade of terrorism, this couple goes through its upheavals and those of a country in disarray. Together, they head for a Brazilian world podium.

Rayya Laajimi is a scriptwriter, playwright and university teacher at the Higher School of Audiovisual and Cinema in Gammarth. (ESAC)She began her career as an actress at the Tunisian National Theater under the direction of Mohamed Driss before leaving for France where she obtained a Master's degree in theater studies in Paris. After a two-year detour in Dubai where she teaches French language, she returns in 2012 in Tunisia. She collaborates with the late Ezzeddine Gannoun as an assistant director, ensures the organization and coordination of several national festivals including the Carthage Film Festival (JCC) in 2014. From 2014 to 2016, she collaborates on the adaptation and dialogues of the screenplay of Fleur d'Alep by Ridha Béhi where she plays a leading role.Selected for the development of a first feature-length screenplay at the Meditalents workshops, she wrote The Detachment in 2013, a partially autobiographical project. She joined forces with producer Nejib Ayed in 2016 for the production of her first short film entitled Hassan.A university teacher and editor, she is currently working on writing a dramaturgical text with Mohamed Driss as well as a first novel in Arabic tentatively entitled Femmes au gré du vent.

This is the story of Amina, a married Tunisian woman who veils her deepest identity to meet social demands and escape her own past. She is the wife, the mother and the adulterer too... or maybe only the Woman in search of her truth in a chaos of socio-religious stereotypes. Caught by the disease of the century, she is on the verge of alienation when she finally decides to face her "demons" and remedy her situation... The revolutionary upheaval of 2011, like her identity crisis, may pave the way to her liberation. Amina's story is a crossing to the human in an ocean of unspoken and mysteries...

Born in Kuwait, Rami has lived in Amman for most of his life, after his family fled Kuwait at the time of the Gulf War.After studying Russian, working as a fashion editor, working on documentaries or acting in commercials, he entered Jordan's film school, RSICA.He makes art videos and short documentaries, while still working in fashion and dance.He is developing his feature film project drawn from his personal experience.

1990, the Gulf War, a Palestinian family of five, is in a hurry to evacuate Kuwait to find refuge in Jordan. They face a long crossing of the Iraqi desert in dramatic, sometimes frightening conditions.Once they reach Jordan, just when they thought they would finally find peace, the family faces new challenges.The story is told through the eyes of their small child Adam, 8.

French teacher, Munir Abbar founded his Production Company, Cinquante-sept Berlin GmbH in 1999. He produced mainly commercials for the German and international markets.In 2004, he founded a second production company in Morocco and directed his first short film, Paris-sur-Mer.

Taibi, 32, an illiterate unemployed man from Tangier, finds himself helping an au pair girl who is babysitting Paul, a very young, withdrawn child. While Paul asks Taibi to read him stories, the latter, pretending to read, actually invents them, regaining confidence in life in view of the happiness he brings to the child... until the day the mother discovers the deception...

Siam is a fiction and documentary filmmaker who has received several international grants and awards for his films, including from Sundance Institute, World Cinema Fund, CNC, Aide aux Cinémas du Monde, Sorfond, Vision Southeast, Doha Film Institute, IDFA Bertha Fonds, Catapult Film Fund, Hot Docs Blue Ice Fund, OIF, Cinereach, AFAC (Arab Fund for Arts and Culture) and Screen Institute Beirut. His films have been screened in festivals such as Karlovy Vary, NYFF, Hot Docs and IDFA among others.he has participated in workshops at many prestigious film institutions such as Sundance Labs, IDFA Academy, Doc Campus, La Fabrique des Cinémas du Monde at the Cannes Film Festival.Siam has been to the Berlinale, Durban and Beirut Talent Alumnus. At the Berlinale Editing Studio, he worked with renowned Danish editor Molly Marlene Stensgaard (Dancer in the Dark, Melancholia).Siam has won the Robert Bosch Film Award, AfriDocs Award, Durban FilmMart Award and Thessaloniki Docs-In-Progress. Siam is the 2016 recipient of The MacDowell Colony and Global Media Makers Fellowships and Mellon Foundation Fellowship.Siam is a reader and member of film committees and commissions for documentary and fiction film funds and markets.

The right choice yet still leads you to guilt.During the celebration of a major Muslim holiday, the sick father returns home after a long absence due to health problems. His youngest son is waiting for him, but he is very angry. They have a long conversation that brings to light all their repressed and long accumulated conflicts. Finally, the circumstances offered by the father's return from the hospital allow this intense confrontation that has always been postponed.

Carine Doumit, born in 1981 in Lebanon, is an independent editor based in Beirut. Since 2005, she has collaborated on numerous feature documentaries as well as video essays. She is a lecturer at St. Joseph University in Beirut and works as an editing consultant in workshops. She published her first essay, Les Épargnés, in 2015.

A mother and her son have lived together forever. They share the same rituals, occupy the same space: a living room, a kitchen, a bathroom, a television, an armchair, a balcony, a view of the village's main street... But what the son doesn't know is that they are not alone; the mother has a lover. Is he real or imaginary, authorized only under certain conditions to penetrate their intimacy?

A graduate of the Faculty of Engineering at the American University in Cairo, Ahmed is a novelist. He was one of the writers of the book Voice in Refuge published in 2008 by the American University's publishing house. He also wrote a collection of short stories published under the title "Chronic anxiety by Sharkeyat publishing house (2010).

Shady and Mayvel, a young couple from Cairo, are confronted with the revolution in their intimate and professional lives: should they commit and how? How will their commitment or non-commitment affect their lives and their romantic relationship?