Arab Cinema Center’s Annual Critics Awards

Directed by Abu Bakr Shawky, a Coptic leper and an orphaned boy leave their colony to embark on journey across Egypt in this film.

Nadine Labaki’s Oscar-nominated film, “Capernaum,” tells the story of an impoverished boy who files a lawsuit against his parents.

For more than two years, filmmaker Talal Derki lived with a family Syria, focusing his camera on the children to capture their gradual radicalization.

Meryem Benm’Barek wrote the screenplay for this Moroccan film in which a woman who is about to give birth risks going to jail if she cannot provide the father’s identity papers.

Nominated for her titular role in “Sofia,” a drama feature set in Casablanca that is a commentary on the woes of women in Morocco.

He plays a troubled father in “Dear Son,” which follows a story of a middle-class couple who struggle when their son leaves for Syria to join Daesh.