the projects are female-led and examine the ongoing struggle of women to define themselves against

tells the story of a mother and housewife who pretends to be pregnant after her

is the feature debut of Jordanian filmmaker Amjad Al Rasheed

takes its title from a beauty pageant prize given to a girl working in the

Nafisa is part of a new generation of Sudanese girls who exceed their predicted roles

pitched is “Over Three Days,” from multihyphenate Tamer Ashry, whose 2017 debut “Photocopy” scooped a host

that he saw himself in the script, as a man who’s “been shaped by

and values implanted within me were ones which contributed to the struggle which Shireen faces,

the sense that he “didn’t have the willpower” to fight against that structure,

to be part of Shireen’s naïve humane revenge against these taboos which have