The Toronto International Film Festival is set to take place from Sept. 9 to 18 with a number of Arab flicks screening at the event.
6 Arab films to screen at Toronto International Film Festival
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‘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.
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‘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.
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‘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.
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‘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.
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‘The Devil’s Drivers’
“The Devil’s Drivers” follows Palestinian smugglers on high-speed trips to help workers cross the border.
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‘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.
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