Programme

Palestinian children in Gaza take to the skies in this uplifting documentary about kites, friendship and an extraordinary attempt to break a world record.

Cherien Dabis’s sweeping, decades spanning family drama follows three generations of a Palestinian family, from the upheaval of 1948 to a life shaped by loss, love and the hope of a better future.

A young singer from Gaza risks everything to audition for Arab Idol in this uplifting true story about music, friendship and following a dream against the odds.

30th anniversary of quite possibly the most eye poppingly gorgeous film ever made, a sumptuous allegorical tale focusing on an almost extinct nomadic tribe of South Eastern Iran who are famed for their intricately designed Persian carpets.

A young boy sets off across the hills of rural Iran to return a school notebook he has taken by mistake in Abbas Kiarostami’s enchanting and deceptively simple world cinema classic.