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England, 1021: Born in a miserable mining town, Robert Cole swears to become a physician and vanquish disease and death. His harsh path of many years, a quest for knowledge besieged by countless challenges and sacrifices, leads him to the remote Isfahan, in Persia, where he meets Ibn Sina, the greatest healer of his time.

“My plan was to die before the money ran out,” says 60-year-old penniless Manhattan socialite Frances Price, but things didn’t go as planned. Her husband Franklin has been dead for 12 years and with his vast inheritance gone, she cashes in the last of her possessions and resolves to live out her twilight days anonymously in a borrowed apartment in Paris, accompanied by her directionless son Malcolm and a cat named Small Frank—who may or may not embody the spirit of Frances’s dead husband.

A chronicle of Gertrude Bell's life, a traveler, writer, archaeologist, explorer, cartographer, and political attaché for the British Empire in the Near and Middle East at the dawn of the twentieth century. Her knowledge of the tribal leaders is used by the British to establish the Kingdoms of Iraq, Jordan and Saudi Arabia.

A group of Trappist monks reside in the monastery of Tibhirine in Algeria, where they live in harmony with the largely Muslim population. When a bloody conflict between Algeria's army and Muslim Jihadi insurgents disrupts the peace, they are forced to consider fleeing the monastery and deserting the villagers they have ministered to. In the face of deadly violence, the monks wrestle with their faith and their convictions.

Omar, the miller's son, has been in love with Laila, the daughter of the local landowner, since childhood. In adulthood, Omar has become a promising journalist and writer. He still loves Laila, but she has promised herself to someone else to save her family from bankruptcy...

Kamal resolves to change his life for the better, and so leaves Belgium to help victims of the war in Syria. But when he arrives, he is forced to join a militia and is left stranded in Raqqa. Back home, his younger brother Nassim quickly becomes easy prey for radical recruiters, who promise to reunite him with his brother. Their mother, Leila, fights to protect the only thing she has left: her youngest son.

In a war-ridden country, a woman watches over her husband, comatose from a bullet in the neck and abandoned by Jihad companions and brothers. One day, the woman decides to say things to him she could never have done before.

Morocco, from the past to the present. Five people who are connected to each other – Abdallah, Salima, Joe, Hakim, and Inès – without realizing it. Different faces, different struggles, but one same breath. One city, Casablanca as a fragment of reality, as the myth of a film entirely shot in Hollywood studios, which reality has come back to claim.

Baghdad, 2005. After Italian journalist Giuliana Sgrena is kidnapped by insurgents, veteran SISMI negotiator Nicola Calipari is tasked with rescuing her, but interference from US forces in Iraq compromises his mission.

An Algerian man's life-long dream finally comes true when he receives an invitation to take his cow Jacqueline to the Paris International Agriculture Fair.

Farid, a young 26-year-old Frenchman, must travel to Algeria to save his father's house. While discovering this country in which he had never before set foot, he succumbs to the charms of a host of astonishing characters whose humour and simplicity affect him deeply. Amongst these is his cousin, a bright and lively young man who has the dream of one day going to France...

In Beirut 1986, during the Lebanese civil war a Korean diplomat is taken hostage without a trace. Two years pass and long forgotten, a young diplomat Min-jun receives a phone call proving that the hostage is still alive. With the given mission, Min-jun is sent to Beirut to save the hostage with a bag of ransom money.

The whole family is reunited when Sofia comes back for his father's funeral. Quickly, inner problems are revealed.

Farid was three years old when his beloved father disappeared. The elders whispered that he had fled Morocco for another woman, never to return. Farid grew up in the shadow of this repressed absence, got married, and embarked on a promising career. Then, a letter from Montreal arrived. The truth came crashing down, cruelly, after decades of lies: it was at the request of Farid's mother that his father had left them, and it wasn't for another woman, but because he himself aspired to be one... So Farid set out to turn back time and meet the long-awaited mother he never met.

A determined young woman goes up against the Moroccan traditions where the only way for a girl is marriage and children.

In Tetouan, at the northern edge of Morocco, three young men decide to rob a jewelry store. The heist goes awry, and their destinies part drastically.

Mehdi decides to get Married. The problem is he's already a married man and a father of two. He wants to take a second spouse, but he doesn't know how to break the news to his wife, Hayat.

BurnOut is a film about the grinding down of hope by the contradictory values and morals of Moroccan society and how a mere chance encounter can throw everything that is taken for granted as normal and correct into question once one has glimpsed the possibility of the love and companionship that lies just beyond the walls of the Moroccan society. A shoe shiner Ayoub, a bourgeois couple, Jad and Ines in a loveless marriage, a wealthy but ailing art collector, and a young medical student Aida moonlighting as an escort, each interaction forever changing them and setting them on an irreversible trajectory towards catharsis or total collapse.

When 17-year-old Ben visits his father Heinrich in Marrakech, it is the start of an adventurous journey through a foreign country with a picturesque charm and a rough beauty where everything appears possible — including the chance that father and son will lose each other for good, or find one another again.

A both empathic and poetic drama set in the Moroccan countryside. Family, poverty, work and pride are the most important motivations of M’Barek, a poor farmer who fights to pay off his debts so that he can keep his land.

Volubilis is a tale of love in a world of despair, of beauty among the ruins. In the Moroccan city of Meknès, recently married Abdelkader and Malika struggle to make ends meet. They dream of leaving the family house and finally starting a life of their own together. But one day at work, Abdelkader gets mixed up in a violent incident that will turn their lives upside down.

For the last screening before it closes for good, the Marhaba cinema is showing Spider-Man 3. Hassan, an 11 years old, absolutely wants to go. But he doesn't have a cent and his mother refuses to let him go with his friends. But Hassan has only one thing in mind: to go and see the film, whatever the cost!

Ali is a seven-year-old autistic boy who does not speak and behaves differently from other children. He has a deep fascination with trees and nature. His mother, Jamila, struggles with the judgment and misunderstanding surrounding her son's condition. When she loses her job, the family's situation becomes even more difficult. Her shy and lonely colleague Bachir makes a courageous and selfless gesture for Ali, potentially changing the course of the family's life.

The members of a debt-ridden family reunite in an evanescent Tangier, running away from painful memories but at the same time clinging to a past they do not want to forget. Their childhood home and its magnificent estate are due to be sold in early autumn; increasingly, summer days fade into distant memory.

When a group of people takes a white taxi to go to Casablanca, they get in an accident that changes the course of their trip as the taxi, along with its passengers, gets held hostage by a drug dealer.

U.S. Navy SEAL Chris Kyle takes his sole mission—protect his comrades—to heart and becomes one of the most lethal snipers in American history. His pinpoint accuracy not only saves countless lives but also makes him a prime target of insurgents. Despite grave danger and his struggle to be a good husband and father to his family back in the States, Kyle serves four tours of duty in Iraq. However, when he finally returns home, he finds that he cannot leave the war behind.

In 7th-century Arabia, Princess Hind becomes a warrior to defy the ruthless Emperor Kisra. Forged into a warrior and aided by legendary bandit Hanzala, Hind unites warring tribes for a last stand—the historic Battle of Dhi Qar—that will change history.

A counter-terrorism expert takes a job protecting a young heiress. After an attempted kidnapping puts both of their lives in danger, they must flee.

Amine is a brilliant young architect who, despite a successful career, mistrusts women due to trauma from his youth. That all changes the day he meets Leila, a beautiful cabaret dancer. He falls madly in love with her and dreams of stealing her away. However, Leila is indebted to Momo, her violent and jealous patron. Will Amine be able to overcome his past to succeed in the present?

A washed-up music producer finds one last shot at redemption with a golden-voiced young girl in Afghanistan. However, when jealousy gets the better of a disgruntled ex-boyfriend, he decides to oppose the young star with talent of his own.

Four childhood friends are reunited when one of them surfaces after twenty years, forcing them to confront a creature straight out of a spine-chilling Moroccan legend.

When a couple about to get married agrees to a scientific experiment to pay the dowry, a glitch swaps their souls. In seven days, Jaafar and Fanida must solve their problem and ensure their wedding.

A small film crew is wandering about Marrakesh and the surrounding desert. They are looking for locations for the remake of an American film in which a man swims his way home, passing through the houses and pools that he finds along the route. Corrado is the stand in used to test the shots, locations and the swimming pools in which the lead will be filmed. While we watch his attempts to get into the part, the real actors and a real crew burst onto the scene, on a set in which no one is in the right place. A film with a crisis of identity, in a surreal search for itself.

A taxi driver experiencing a bizarre phenomena surrounding death.

Hakim is a professional hacker and used to muscular interrogations. But his last encounter with the Moroccan secret service will change his life forever. He will discover that his genes give him extraordinary powers. And if they manifest themselves now, it is for a very simple reason: he is the only one who can prevent a global catastrophe…

After being abandoned by Omar, Amal travels to America. Upon her return, Omar notices that Amal has changed; in addition to her beauty, she has gained charisma. Omar feels that he loves her and does everything he can to win her back.

Shocked by the video of a woman who sets herself on fire, Ali, a young computer scientist, becomes a whistleblower to elicit empathy and rouse his stagnant society.

Aicha works tirelessly selling whey to meet all the needs of her little daughter Malika. In the evening in the slum, several people are sick and some die. The others wake up the next day, wander around the slum and bite people. The epidemic spreads insidiously, the first undead are slow and clumsy. People avoid them. But there are more and more. While returning home with her daughter, Aïcha is attacked by a pack of zombies. She falls on a stone and remains inanimate. When Aïcha finally wakes up, Malika is no longer there. She begins to look for her daughter, who for her part is looking for her mother. Everyone does everything to avoid succumbing to the zombie attacks and finding their way out of the slum before it's too late...

A young delinquent who has just come out of prison finds himself put to a difficult mission: to track a relative of an ex-detainee who lost his memory during the long years of his detention.

FOUR SEASONS CHANGE THE EARTH, AND THE FIFTH CHANGES US. Three sisters face their father's sudden death. Khadija, the stoic eldest; Hind, the angry rebel; and Hanan, the blind youngest. Each mourning in her own way as winter grief turns to spring's surprises.

Naïma decides to run away from home and works as a dancer in a cabaret. Very beautiful, she is courted by important personalities who die under unexplained circumstances. Moncef, a young police commissioner, tirelessly leads the investigation to uncover the truth, probably connected to the monster.

A young engineer's dream of becoming a fighter pilot for the Royal Moroccan Air Force is put on hold until he unravels the mystery of his missing parents.

Things change in the life of the taxi driver, Alal, in terms of appearance and financial level, and he goes on many adventures with several characters through his daily life and work.

Fadma is an active Moroccan woman, a mother who, after the death of her husband, raised her two children alone: Ahmed is her pride and joy, having succeeded in France, and Karim is the eccentric artist who still lives with her. Sensing danger around her son Ahmed, she decides to visit him in France. And it's here that she discovers the problem of her granddaughter Julie-Aïcha, a teenager in search of her identity. Fadma and Julie-Aïcha discover a new shared passion.

Farid lives with his mother in the medina. Still a bachelor, he draws a modest income by extorting vendors and small shop-owners by impersonating a policeman. Every day, he dons the uniform, a fake gun and handcuffs, puts on a show, and does the rounds – blissfully unaware that the real police force has him under surveillance, suspecting he might be a member of the criminal underground. Officer Bouchra is sent in, her mission to get close to him and gather information first-hand. Driss Mrini’s uproarious comedy had a successful run at the box office, and showcases the talent of a host of Moroccan film stars..