A farming couple lives with their children in a village, far from the city, in northeastern Turkey. Every spring, they sow 1500 years-old wheat seeds, that their family inherited from their ancestors, and when time is, they grind the grain in their mill and make the flour into bread. Although the harvest of this family-seed is difficult and its yield is low, they believe that this heritage is a source of life. The farming couple’s faith in nature begins to be tested by the emerging dreams of their children and the test deepens as the harvest of this year is harder than usual.

This documentary tells the fabulous epic of El Manchar (The Saw), the first satirical newspaper of the Arab world of the 90s in Algiers. Between learning about freedom of expression and a fierce fight against Islamist terrorism, these heroic cartoonists and journalists left their mark on Algerian society in indelible red ink. This story, 30 years later, takes humour as a weapon of resistance that flourished during the “Hirak”, but also echoes with the freedom of press which is once again heavily oppressed in Algeria.

Amine, a young researcher in the traditional arts, is transformed every evening into Rosa, a drag-queen who dances and sings poems dating back several centuries. He has a crazy project, that of creating the first voguing troupe in the Maghreb, a “House” made up of young artists who live and practice their art in their countries of origin. Rosa tries through her art to make known her fight for respect and equality. From Casablanca to New York, this film is a unique immersion in the hidden world of North African artists.

For the last 20 years, Borj Chakir’s landfill grew dwarfing & ravaging the once peaceful El Attar village. Ridha, a popular singer in that community, refuses to go down without a fight: His crusade will be against this monster that feeds on trash coming from far beyond Tunisia’s borders. But as ravaging this landfill is to that community, it constitutes the only lifeline for survival for the marginalized ragpickers called “Barbesha”, like Marwan & his peers, whose number is only increasing.

Biker Dero, dancer Anahit, musician Albert, teacher Robert and basketball trainer Artush are romantic creators who are living in once glorified but now despised town Vanadzor. They love the town, but does the government love the town too? Robert and Artush lost their youth dreams in Vanadzor during the collapse of Soviet Union. Are Dero, Anahit and Albert going to get the same fate?  Together five portraits create a description of a person’s fate in a town stuck between the Soviet Union and modern world.

Salvador is a young Cameroonian who left his native village in pursuit of his dream to immigrate to Europe by walking, defying all odds. When he is so close to his goal, he meets Moroccan artists who open his eyes to his true quest. The meeting with Moroccan artists opened the door to another journey, of art and the search for oneself. Today Salvador lives and works in Morocco, he is an established painter and actor. This path, which he did not suspect, has made him an accomplished individual. Perhaps he had to leave his country and suffer a journey full of dangers to find his way?

When filmmaker Areeb Zuaiter lost her Palestinian mother, she lost her connection to Gaza. With all the memories from her childhood destroyed, she sets out on a quest to connect with a young man she sees in a video doing parkour among ruins in Gaza. With Ahmad as her guide, she explores life in Gaza, and rebuilds her memories of her mother and her childhood. In this time when Gaza and its people are being devastated every day, here’s a portrait of a tormented city and the perseverance of its people.

In his journey to save Yiddish libraries and cultural treasures, Mendy Cahan visits the homes of the last Yiddish speakers, and gives their beloved books a home in the center he established at Tel Aviv Central Station. However, his life’s work to salvage the Yiddish cultural heritage is facing yet another threat—the closing of the central bus station in Tel-Aviv, home to Mendy’s book center ‘Yung Yiddish’. The movie will tell the story of a dying culture and the hopeless struggle of a single Don Quixote to save it.