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66
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7.4
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84
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66
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cc age 16+

The Way Back (2020)
A former basketball all-star, who has lost his wife and family foundation in a struggle with addiction, attempts to regain his soul and salvation by becoming the coach of a disparate ethnically mixed high school basketball team at his alma mater.
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80
9.1
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65
/15/
80
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3.4
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/20/
83
/43/

I Was a Stranger (2026)
A Syrian doctor and her daughter flee Aleppo, setting off a chain of events that binds five strangers together. A smuggler, a soldier, a poet, and a coast guard captain collide in a crisis that tests their courage, their choices, and their humanity.
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Kanopy
62
6.1
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58
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70
/149/
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/349/
58
/35/
cc age 15+

A Hologram for the King (2016)
Alan Clay, a struggling American businessman, travels to Saudi Arabia to sell a new technology to the King, only to be challenged by endless Middle Eastern bureaucracy, a perpetually absent monarch, and a suspicious growth on his back.
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51
5.7
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75
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Valley of the Wolves: Iraq (2006)
The film covers through fiction real-life events like the occupation of Iraq, the execution of Daniel Pearl, the Hood event and the Abu Ghraib torture scandal.
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Kanopy
43
5.7
/13357/
61
/661/
58
/294/
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/6440/
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/80/
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/75/
39
/18/
cc age 14+

Queen of the Desert (2015)
A chronicle of Gertrude Bell's life, a traveler, writer, archaeologist, explorer, cartographer, and political attaché for the British Empire in the Near and Middle East at the dawn of the twentieth century. Her knowledge of the tribal leaders is used by the British to establish the Kingdoms of Iraq, Jordan and Saudi Arabia.
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Mobius Loop (2025)
Senna is a scientist seeking to perfect a mind-jumping time-travel project. Upon finding a VHS tape that compels her to delve into her family's past, she uncovers the key to her research, but in doing so suffers deadly consequences.
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76
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8.2
/86/
3.5
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Skeet (2024)
After being released from prison, Billy Skinner returns to his low-income neighbourhood feeling like a fish out of water; the area has changed dramatically, and what was once a predominantly white neighbourhood is now mostly occupied by refugee families.
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Kanopy
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7.2
/217/
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56
/5/
3.4
/216/

Facing Mecca (2017)
Pensioner Roli comes to Fareed's assistance when the Syrian refugee is faced with the burial of his Muslim wife. Together they stumble into a bewildering forest of Swiss bureaucracy to which Roli finds beautifully simple answer.
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Kanopy
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8.8
/17/

Jihad in Hollywood (2016)
Once a successful Syrian actor, Jihad Abdo is now struggling as a refugee while trying to reinvent his life and rebuild his career.
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Kanopy
65
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7.0
/131/
75
/2/
52
/4/

Bon Voyage (2016)
Jonas and Silvia are enjoying a wonderful sailing holiday in the Mediterranean sea. But while sailing through the night, far away from land, they discover an overloaded refugee boat, close to sinking. They are shocked, but too afraid to help. So they call the coast guards but lose the boat out of sight into the darkness of the night. In the early morning they find themselves drifting through an ocean of dead bodies. The refugee boat has sunk. Jonas and Silvia manage to pull a few survivors out of the cold water: Syrians. This rescue marks the beginning of a dramatic conflict between the hopes and dreams of the refugees, and the fears and ideals of the holiday sailors.
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Kanopy
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7.5
/72/
70
/1/

Refugee (2020)
A Syrian doctor attempts to escape her war-ravaged homeland with her young daughter.
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Kanopy
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7.4
/13/

Jihad in Hollywood (2019)
Once a successful Syrian actor, Jihad Abdo is now struggling as a refugee while trying to reinvent his life and rebuild his career.
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Amazon Prime Video
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3.4
/354/
40
/25/
57
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cc age 15+

1st Born (2019)
Tucker and Hamid are going to be grandfathers for the first time, but only if they can come together long enough to save their first-born grandchild.
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7.5
/403/
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/5/
70
/8/
3.6
/419/

Neighbours (2022)
A small village on the Syrian-Turkish border in the early 1980s: The six-year-old Kurdish boy Sero experiences his first school year in an Arab school and has to watch his small world being radically changed in the course of an absurd nationalism.
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66
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7.6
/110/
50
/1/
3.6
/268/

Under Concrete (2017)
A child in Syria trapped under concrete after an explosion demolished her home.
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8.9
/51/
40
/1/

Ablution (2017)
The bond between a disabled Muslim father and his son is tested when love is pitted against religion.
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Hoopla
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6.3
/34/
10
/2/
60
/1/
86
/6/

We've Got Balls (2013)
A small town with a population of 52 people has balls galore, as in bowling balls, which they use to form a zany bowling tournament to save the town.
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Behind the Mask (2025)
After the death of a famous actor, his estranged daughter visits his house where she discovers a magic theater mask. When she puts it on, it whisks her back in time to a majestic theater, bringing her face to face with him as a young man.
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Anwar (2024)
Anwar is a sci-fi short film about a mother who chooses to live forever and a son who longs for heaven. We see Anwar age from 8 to 18 to 80, while Mona remains eternal throughout, until he has a final moment of doubt, and she has a final moment of hope.


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