Saed, a film director originally from Bethlehem, who is not permitted to have pre-marital sex, sets out on a journey to confront his traditional family and to find sex in a brothel in Tel Aviv and in a porn cinema in Amman.
Two filmmakers with a Kurdish background, one from Turkey, the other from Israel, set out on a journey to discover their families' common histories, through the unfortunate fate of Kurdish children, living on the streets of Istanbul.
Etgar, the director, goes on a personal journey following the life his family might have led had his father moved to New Zealand, instead of pursuing his Zionist vision. Would his sister still have become an Ultra-Orthodox Jew and his brother still have moved to Thailand?
White Hallway / Rima Essa & Claudia Levin
Palestine & Israel
The struggle of children on the oncology ward of a West Bank hospital and their families, who don't always manage to visit their sick kids, due to security restrictions by the state of Israel.
Financial support:
Noga Communications-Channel 8 , Israel, signed a complete production agreement . Dutch broadcaster "DE HUMANISTISCHE OMROEP", signed a10,000 € presale agreement
Not Quite the Talibans is the story of a young man's frustration with the hypocrisy of his "modern Arab" generation who appear Western but are more conservative than the traditionalists- young Arabs who are lost between religious values and Western values of sexual liberation.
Financial support:
Belgium broadcaster "Lichtpunt", 10,000 Euro presale agreement
On the Way to School / Orhan Eskikoy & Ozgur Dogan
Turkey
One year in the life of a Turkish teacher, teaching the Turkish language to Kurdish children in a remote village in Turkey. The children can't speak Turkish, the teacher can't speak Kurdish and is forced to become an exile in his own country.
Grants & Financial support: Amnesty international Channel 8, Israel, Pre-buy award for broadcasting rights. Sundance Institute, $5000 Grant for the best project at the Greenhouse Pitching Forum
A Journey of young Palestinians through 500 checkpoints spread across 220 km in the West Bank, in search of an anchovy pizza.
The Trip of Light and Color / Doghri Fathi & Mohieddine Temimi
Tunisia
3 Artists (Paul Klee, August Macke & Louis Moilliet) in a trip to Tunisia 1914, to find more about light, color, people, identity and style. "What did they find out about themselves through looking at us?"
Through Women′s Eyes / Nassima Guessum
Algeria
Algerian women remember their youth when they joined the rebels during the Algerian war. Seeking the traces of the past and telling the personal stories of the moudjahidates, the director learns about her own roots but mostly she brings her questions back to the condition of being a young Algerian woman today.
Grants & Financial support: European Documentary Authors Forum-10th International Festival of script writers - Bourges. Project selected by the Euromed Audiovisual II Programme. CNC - Laureate writing & development Grants