• ‘Costa Brava, Lebanon’

  

  Actors Saleh Bakri and Nadine Labaki star in Lebanese director Mounia Akl’s impassioned debut, an eerie family drama set amid a raging climate crisis in near-future Lebanon.

• ‘Farha’

  

  “Farha,” by Jordanian filmmaker Darin J. Sallam, tells the story of a 14-year-old Palestinian girl who watched the 1948 war consume her home from a locked cellar.

• ‘Huda’s Salon’

  

  Palestinian director Hany Abu-Assad’s political and emotional thriller explores a dangerous clash between two women struggling to cope with life under occupation.

• ‘Beity’

  

  In this drama by filmmaker Isabelle Mecattaf, who grew up in Beirut, a look at an anxious day in a wealthy Beirut household becomes a moving rumination on the pain felt by parents of grown children seeking better lives far from home.

• ‘The Devil’s Drivers’

  

  “The Devil’s Drivers” follows Palestinian smugglers on high-speed trips to help workers cross the border.

• ‘Trumpets in the Sky’

  What begins as a typically demanding day for a Syrian girl working in Lebanon’s potato fields becomes one that alters her life’s direction in this drama by director Rakan Mayasi.