Ziad Bakri
A Syrian exile living in Australia returns when his brother is taken into custody by the Assad regime in 2011.
Salam is a young housewife who is quietly suffering within the codified Middle Eastern Society, and trying to help her husband Ammar to overcome his sexual dysfunction. One day, her Mother in Law finds another wife for Ammar and accuses her of being infertile. Ammar being weak and helpless towards the situation stirs Salam into a different direction which enlights her to fight back a difficult battle.
In Nazareth, an old couple lives wearily to the rhythm of the daily routine. On the other side of the border, in Ramallah, their son Tarek wishes to remain an eternal bachelor, their daughter is about to give birth while her husband lands a movie role and the grandmother loses her head... Between check-points and dreams, frivolity and politics, some want to leave, others want to stay but all have personal affairs to resolve.
​Greece. A seaside resort struck by a heavy heat wave. Water is scarce and violence is ready to explode. Ashraf, a solitary immigrant, is looking after a villa while its owners are away. On a dusty road crushed by the sun, he is stopped by a police officer for an identity check...
On a Mediterranean shore, a Syrian father's decision to give his daughter a better life puts her in danger of losing it.
A fisherman lives alone. His days and nights are fraught with waiting. He rises with the sun and carries his anxieties and tools to the sea, where he fishes. He fishes until sunset without ever catching a fish. One day, he meets a passerby on the sea playing a mouth harmonica. The man feels compassion for him and tells him that he is fishing in a sea without fish, in a sea that is dead, but the fisherman does not even look at him.
The psychological thriller takes place amid weekend getaway to Croatia that goes awry when a woman is accused of killing her best friend. As she attempts to clear her name and uncover the truth, her efforts unearth a painful secret.
A man living in 1982 Beirut listens to the bombs fall and reminisces about the smell of coffee.
