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Beirut, Lebanon. The city is riveted by a series of car bomb attacks. Alain, bored with his job as a sales representative, decides to turn his back on his life in this madness. Looking for a way out, he decides to devote himself to his passion, scuba diving. Quickly, he becomes increasingly obsessed with only one thing: breaking the world diving record.
In a Sudanese village between the desert and the Nile, a young boy enjoys an idyllic childhood, taking pleasure in the fertile fruits of the land and basking by the river. But the boy's precious world begins to unravel when he learns the disturbing truth behind his family's fortune, and a certain farmer's inevitable demise.
In the near future, communicating with the dead becomes possible thanks to advanced technology, which pushes a grieving man to want to contact his late wife. But a mysterious meeting will change everything.
Habib is a self-employed barber in his late sixties who decides to break with his daily routine after the migration of his only son. With an adventurous spirit and an aspiration to cheer up his beloved wife, he struggles with his emotional distress and psychological turmoil.
Noha is waiting in line at the pharmacy to buy a pack of condoms. The colourful pack catches a little girl's attention, who wants to know what it is. When the girl's mother refuses to tell her, she tries to find out by herself. The girl's curiosity leads to unexpected consequences, and soon the whole pharmacy gets involved.
When director Asmae El Moudir finds an old picture postcard of a mountain village among her mother's belongings, it brings a remarkable story to life. The picture is of Zawia, the village in Morocco that her mother left as a child and never returned to. El Moudir decides to go to this remote place. In Zawia, where time seems to have stood still, she embarks on a quest into her mother's past, and thereby her own. She connects on a personal level with women and girls in the village, and one of the young girls is Oum Aleid. The better El Moudir gets to know her and her family, the more she realizes how different her life would have been if her mother had stayed in the village. What begins as an intimate, personal journey in search of her family's roots, evolves into a universal story about emancipation, migration, and the human longing to belong to a community.
A loving couple face the question of whether or not they want to have a child. With a focus on Laila, as the possible bearer of an embryo in her womb, many existential questions arise that leave her in emotional turmoil.
A poor lady decides to enjoy a day out with her son who has Down's syndrome. She heads to upscale Cairo to enjoy some ice-cream but is instead faced by great adversity. Despite this, she insists on getting to capture a happy moment, for both herself and her son.