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Aaaah!
Osman Cerfon
France
2023 Animation 4'41
Aaaah! is an expression of pain, surprise, fear, joy, singing, grumbling, laughter, anger... Aaaah! is the cry used by children, these primitive and innocent beings, as they experience school life, under the whistle blasts of adult supervision.

Dry Hot Summers
Sherif ElBendary
Egypt, Germany
2015 Fiction 30'33
Two lonely people at opposite chapters of life accidentally meet on a busy summer day in a Cairo taxi. Frail old Shawky and bubbly young Doaa are both caught up in their busy routines, as their race through the city evolves into a journey of self-discovery that reconnects them to life.

Apparitions
Julien Faraut [INSEP]
France
2008 Documentary 8'
A few years before the Lumière brothers’ cinematograph, physiologist Georges Demeny created a device called phonoscope, to produce living portraits, and thus be able to “leave after us something documenting our existence that we can bring back to life like true apparitions”.

Waves ’98
Ely Dagher
Lebanon, Qatar
2015 Fiction, Animation 14'50
Disillusioned with his life in the suburbs of segregated Beirut, Omar's discovery lures him into the depths of the city. Immersed into a world that is so close yet so isolated from his reality, he eventually finds himself struggling to keep his attachments, his sense of home.