After a Master's degree in international law, Riad turns to cinema, his first passion. He embarks on self-production in writing and directing a first short film in 2013, Héritages. In a desire for professionalization, he joined the writing residency La Ruche de Gindou Cinéma in 2016. This residency, which includes three writing sessions spread over several months, allows him to write the first version of the screenplay for La Veillée. Afterwards, he met his producers, Emmanuel Wahl and Adrien Bretet, with whom he rewrote the script. La Veillée is his first short film produced, by Qui Vive! and Pictor.

A North African girl living in a slum grows up in contact with her family's activism. When she becomes a woman, this heritage will allow her to emancipate herself.

Mohamed Hossameldin is an Italian-Egyptian filmmaker. He started his career working as a video operator for the Mediaset Group and Sky Channel. In 2011, he enrolled at RUFA -Rome University of Fine Arts, where he graduated in 2014. In 2015 he directed the short film "Sotto Terra", selected in many Festivals including Giffoni Film Festival, European Film Festival and winner of several awards.He was selected for two consecutive years (2017 and 2018) at the Venice Film Festival in the MigrArti section with: "Il Passo" and "Youse", produced and distributed by Premiere Film and co-produced by smile Vision. "Yousef" was nominated for the David di Donatello award and was the only Italian short film selected in the international competition of the Clermont-Ferrand Short Film Festival 2019.In 2020 he directs the second episode of the series "Zero" produced for Netflix by Fabula Pictures and in 2022 he becomes a member of the Premio Solinas jury. He currently has a fiction series under option with Asacha Media Group for an international platform and a documentary series for Sky Arte.He is currently developing his first feature film, which addresses the theme of identity conflict from a personal, intimate and authentic point of view.

Yousef, an Egyptian teenager, joins his father in Rome for a better life. Instead, he lives in a garage with a distant father and works with an aggressive master who exhausts him. He finds solace in a secret relationship with an older client, who offers him the opportunity to study and change his future. But this will not be without consequences and will lead to serious problems at the garage, putting him in front of a difficult choice.

Dahlia Nemlich is a French-Lebanese director and producer. In 2020, she directed her first fiction filmRoadblock, a 16-minute short film, produced by Marine Vaillant of Dewberries Films, shot during the Lebanese revolution, which premiered at the 2020 El Gouna Film Festival. It is distributed by Manifest Pictures, was selected for the 2022 Short Film Festival, and recently won the Silver FIFOG in Switzerland.Dahlia has also directed and produced two music videos, Beirut, which has gathered over twenty thousand views on YouTube and Idak, still in post-production. She is currently finalizing her second short film, Somewhere in Between, as well as the development of her first feature film Assa, like a fish in a bowl, selected for the Less Is More (Groupe Ouest) writing workshops in 2022.In parallel to her work as a director, Dahlia has been a producer since 2011 working on series, and digital content with TF1, Fullhouse production, Webedia and more recently The Talkies in Beirut.

Assa, an Ethiopian housekeeper, begins working for a young Lebanese couple with a one-year-old baby, gradually outgrowing her role as janitor.

Born to a Lebanese father and a Syrian mother, Wissam Tanios studied filmmaking at St. Joseph University in Beirut. He loves filmmaking that tackles themes such as family, detachment, loss, and grief.His short documentary Aftermath won the Best Documentary Award at the Lebanese Film Festival in 2012.Departures, his second short film, has competed in numerous film festivals around the world and won the Best Narrative Short Award at the 2nd Annual Alwan Awards in New York.His first feature documentary, "We Are From There," premiered at the 2020 Rotterdam International Film Festival. Among many other awards, the film won Best Arab Film and Best Non-Fiction Film in Cairo.While his first feature documentary is still traveling the world, Wissam is currently developing his first ever feature-length fiction film.

Neyrouz is disturbed by the sudden death of her husband. A few days after his death, she discovers that he left her a debt that she must repay.

Samy Sidali, a filmmaker based between France and Morocco, was born in 1989 in Hauts de Seine to Moroccan parents. At 18, he moved to London to explore filmmaking, first as a self-taught student, then at the University of the Arts London, from which he graduated in 2013. After several years traveling as a director of institutional documentaries, he shot his first produced short film, JMAR, in Morocco in March 2020, with the help of the CNC and France 2 (Mabel Films production). After numerous festival selections, JMAR was included in the César 2023 selection in the Best Fiction Short category.

In June 2021, he shot his second short fiction film, A.O.C, produced by Mabel Films, which won the Audience Prize and the Young Jury Prize at its French premiere at CINEMED in October 2022, and will soon be broadcast on OCS. In 2022 he directed his first short documentary, PETIT TAXI, which premiered at IDFA in November 2022.

In 2023, these three films were screened together as part of invitations to the Cinémathèque Française and the Cinémathèque de Tanger.

He is currently writing a fiction series, and his first feature film, again with Mabel Films, which he hopes to shoot in Morocco in early 2025.

Mohammedia. One night, the moon is torn apart. Abir realizes that she is now the only one dreaming. She goes to the others to make them dream again.

Born on June 30, 1982, Amel Blidi has been a director and journalist at the French-language daily El Watan for the past ten years. The association Cinema and Memory opened the doors of documentary film to her, where she trained for 14 months. In 2013, she directed the film Demain est un autre jour with Nabil Boubkeur. She then multiplies the workshops of documentary creation as well as the residencies of writing fictional scenarios.She shoots, in 2016, a short documentary film In the shadow of words during the documentary Laboratories of Algiers.

After saving Mimouna from what he believes to be an assault, Radi flees with her across Algeria, music as his only baggage, to escape reprisals.

Amos Holzman (born 1985 in Jerusalem) is a director, screenwriter and producer who lives and works in Tel Aviv. He graduated from Sapir Audio and Visual Arts School with a BA in Film (2010).Director of three short narrative films (Panta Rhei 2010, Boys 2013 and Colony Collapse Disorder 2021) screened in various international film festivals around the world, such as Clermont-Ferrand, AFI, Oberhausen, Cinemed, POFF Estonia and more. Director and screenwriter of Milah, a narrative feature film currently in development, which received a development grant from the Israeli Film Fund.Screenwriter of Sand Cake, a narrative feature film currently in development, received a development grant from the Israeli Film Fund. Screenwriter of There Is Some You In Me, received a development grant from Cinema South Festival, participated in Produire Au Sud 2015.Producer of narrative features, shorts and documentaries by promising Israeli directors such as Sharon Angelhart, Keren Bergman and Genady Kuchuck

Most family members are not thrilled about a rookie intern performing the circumcision, but Nevo, the proud grandfather, is determined that Elkana will be the one. In the midst of an existential crisis, Nevo is willing to go as far as it takes.MILAH is a comedy about an ancient ceremony in a modern world and the absurd sacrifices we make to reassure ourselves.

Sein Lyan Tun is an emerging filmmaker from Burma, currently in residence at the Cité des Arts,Paris. His latest short film, Late Blooming In A Lonely Summer Day, has been selected for many international competitions such as the Internationale Kurzfilmtage in Winterthur (Switzerland), Festival Du Court Métrage in Clermont Ferrand (France), and Locarno Filmmakers Academy (Locarno). His documentary Unsilent Potato is well known in Myanmar and Southeast Asia. He also directed and co-produced the TV documentaries Border Boy; We Are Nuns", "Dream Over Monsoon" for Inside Lens, NHK World's new documentary strand!"His documentary For Me And Others Like Me won the Docs Spirit Award' from Docs Port Incheon in 2016 and the HosoBunka Foundation Award in 2017 at the Japan Prize. He is an alumnus of Berlinale 2022 Talents, FAMU 2022 Summer Film Campus, Tokyo Talents, American Film Showcase Fellowship, and Tran Anh Hung's Autumn Meeting filmmaking workshop.He is currently working on post-production of his latest short film Everybody's Got To Love Sometime. The Beer Girl in Yangon is his first feature film, which was selected at Cannes, Cinefondation 2022 workshop and won two development grants from the CNC and Swiss Films at Locarno Open Doors 2021.

Lily, a teenage girl works as a hostess at a shady bar and on her bisexuality as she is caught between a mysterious older man and a young colleague.