The Montpellier Mediterranean Cinema Pageant, also called Cinemed, and Beirut-based Arab cinema platform Aflamuna have unveiled the choice for his or her fifth challenge incubator occasion, which is able to happen as a part of the competition in October.
The initiative, known as Rencontres Aflamuna x Cinemed and supporting Arab filmmakers from the Center East and Africa, will current seven tasks.
They perceive the documentary Disappeared observe 5 Syrian ladies who settle for the compelled disappearance of their sons and husbands beneath the regime of Bashar Al-Asaad, with out ever giving up the seek for their destiny.
The e-book tackles a uncooked topic in Syria, the place no less than 177,000 persons are nonetheless lacking after being victims of enforced disappearances by the regime beginning in 2011.
That is the most recent movie by Palestinian director of Syrian origin Anas Zawahri, who precipitated a sensation this 12 months with My reminiscence is stuffed with ghostsrevisiting the war-ravaged Syrian metropolis of Homs in 2023, earlier than the overthrow of Al-Assad in December 2024.
Different chosen tasks embrace that of Palestinian Wisam Al Jafari From the hearse to the final home of happinessa couple of mentally ailing man who’s granted temporary depart from the establishment the place he’s being handled to attend a household marriage ceremony.
That is Al Jafari’s first function movie following award-winning quick movies. Environment (2019), By the ocean (2021), Cinema, My Love (2026.)
Hanna Attallah produces beneath her Route 243 banner after credit together with Thanks for doing enterprise with us by Laila Abbas, which performed at a number of festivals together with the BFI London Movie Pageant.
Cinemed and Aflamuna launched their joint challenge incubator in 2021, with the assist of the Nationwide Cinema Heart (CNC) to assist filmmakers from 22 Arab territories within the Center East and Africa,
As a part of this initiative, individuals are participating in Cinemed’s skilled days, which is able to happen from October 20 to 22, bringing collectively French and worldwide professionals and decision-makers with a view to potential partnerships.
“After 5 years, the Aflamuna x Cinemed Conferences, as a continuation of the Aflamuna connection program, are actually an integral a part of the Cinemed Conferences, attracting an enormous community of producers, French and European establishments considering discovering new tasks from the Arab world,” stated Christophe LeParc, director of Cinemed.
“We’re proud to current the seven tasks chosen this 12 months and to assist develop their attain and visibility in European markets. »
Cinemed takes place from October 16 to 24.
The Aflamuna x Cinemed Conferences 2026 Choice
The story of a feather and a fish
(Egypt)
Actual. Ahmed El Hawarey
Merchandise. Hala Lotfy (Hassala Movies), Jeanne Deny (MAD Options)
Amid the shadow of a devastating genetic illness, three members of a damaged household wrestle to seek out salvation; they’re guided towards therapeutic by the family members they need to take care of.
Settle for my plea for burial
(Somalia/Djibouti)
Actual. Mohammed Sheikh
Prod. Kadir Harbi, producer (Aleel Movies)
In a distant pastoral village in Somalia, two twelve-year-old boys, Waasuge and Warmooge, spend their days herding goats and enjoying. Their rivalry turns tragic when Warmooge dies after falling right into a dry riverbed throughout a match. And not using a clear witness and with out contradictory testimonies, suspicions develop. As grief turns to accusation, Warmooge’s mom refuses burial with out justice, and the village fractures beneath the load of uncertainty and stress to find the reality.
Disappeared (doc)
France-Syria-Lebanon-Iraq
Actual. Anas Zawahri
Prod. Ahmad Al Haj (Aeolian Cinema)
5 Syrian ladies face the compelled disappearance of their sons and husbands. By way of their every day lives and their fixed seek for fact, they resist political erasure, protect reminiscence and restore which means to their cities, within the marginalized Syrian countryside.
I’ve different buddies (doc)
Egypt
Actual. Yomna Khattab
Prod. Muhammad Taymour (Chaos Movies)
Yomna, the director, on the daybreak of her forties, takes us on a private and intimate journey to embody her finest buddies. As she navigates the postponed tough conversations with them, Yomna wonders, “Who’re my buddies after I attain my 40s?”
From the hearse to the final home of happiness
Palestine
Actual. Wisam Al Jafari
Product. Hanna Attallah (Route 243)
When a mentally ailing Palestinian in his fifties is granted temporary depart of absence to attend a household marriage ceremony, the occasion descends into chaotic absurdity as his political obsession, a troubled household, and road protests collide.
The area I carry (doc)
Lebanon-France
Actual. Élise Pouchelet,
Co-director and producer. Josef Khallouf (The FilmMonk)
Born in Lebanon in 1975, in the beginning of the civil conflict, Elise was deserted, then adopted and brought to France. Fifty years later, she retraces the 2 lineages that run by her, feeling the fragments and the silences which have quietly formed her. It’s within the solitude of the mountains, within the firm of untamed issues, that she lastly learns to inhabit the area she carries.
Twelve fig leaves (doc)
Lebanon
Actual. Joëlle Abou Chabké
Prod. Lara Abou Saïfan (Movies with out place)
When Joëlle, a filmmaker turned farmer, discovers Bawāhīr, an ancestral Lebanese methodology of climate forecasting, she embarks on a year-long journey to check its accuracy whereas constructing a permaculture challenge together with her husband in her house village within the Bekaa. As local weather uncertainty and political instability improve, their quest turns into considered one of resilience, ancestral knowledge and survival.