JCC 2021 / Official Competition / Narrative Feature Films

A family is forced into a period of self-discovery after its authoritarian patriarch is accidentally turned into a chicken by a magician during a children's birthday party

When her village is threatened with forced resettlement due to reservoir construction, an 80-year-old widow finds a new will to live and ignites the spirit of resilience within her community.

A night of insurrection in Tunis, the streets and the suburbs have gone mad, nothing works anymore, the Capital have become a battlefield between the police and the protesters.

Anas, a former rapper, is employed in a cultural centre. Encouraged by their new teacher, the students will try to free themselves from the weight of traditions to live their passion and express themselves through hip hop culture.

In times of misfortune, Guled and his family have to push themselves to the limits in order to reunite with their family.

Moez, a policeman in his thirties with a bloody past, meets a young boy with whom he undertakes a fantastic journey.

A Palestinian girl's world is turned upside down when she learns the man she grew up idolizing is not her real father.

Ahmed, an 18-year-old Frenchman of Algerian origin, meets Farah, a young Tunisian girl. He discovers a collection of erotic Arabic literature and falls in love with Farah, but tries to resist desire.

Koukou is called crazy for his different behavior. The village elders committee and his father decide to put him in a mental asylum.

When reticent Ama returns to the city where she was gifted to a white art collector as a little girl, the quest to reclaim her stolen childhood quickly goes into a tailspin when she recruits an ex-lover on her mission.

A Lebanese filmmaker (Karim) travels from New York to Beirut to conduct research for a film that he wants to make about blind children in the mountains of Lebanon. He arrives to Beirut with a condition that had been affecting his eyes and causes him to go straight into surgery, temporarily blinding him with patches covering his eyes. He uses the healing time to reflect, write and spend time with his family. The filmmaker then begins to visit the blind institute where he will conduct his research and attempts to cast someone to play himself in parallel, which doesn't go as planned. Little does the institute know that Karim has no treatment to pitch but continues to visit the classrooms and attend in order to find his characters.

"AvoDezanove e O Segredo Do Soviético" The movie is an adaptation of Ondjaki's novel.