• ‘Hajjan’

  

  The Saudi movie, by Egyptian filmmaker Abu Bakr Shawky, tells the story of a boy who embarks on a journey across the desert with his camel.

• ‘Mandoob’

  

  Directed by Saudi filmmaker Ali Kalthami, this film is set in Riyadh and tells the story of Fahad Al-Gadaani, a mentally fragile man racing against time to save his sick father.

• ‘NAGA’

  

  Saudi filmmaker Meshal Al-Jaser’s thriller follows a young woman who is stranded in the Arabian desert and races to be home before curfew under the threat of punishment from her father.

• ‘Yellow Bus’

  

  This movie, directed by Wendy Bednarz, tells the story of a schoolgirl living in the Gulf who dies from heat exhaustion after falling asleep on a school bus and being left behind.

• ‘The Teacher’

  

  The parallel struggles of a Palestinian schoolteacher grieving the loss of his son and an American couple fighting to reclaim their son from kidnappers propel director Farah Nabulsi’s feature.

• ‘Achilles’

  

  In Iranian filmmaker Farhad Delaram’s feature, two fugitives in Iran encounter citizens across the country who unite in their willingness to help the pair survive.