Bamboe

In Mosul, Nawal takes care of her ailing mother Samia. The mother’s condition gets worse as medicine is no longer available in the city. In the few days she has left, Nawal, her mother and their neighbor share small moments of joy. The ladies sing and dance, they use make-up and make scents, they tell jokes and laugh too hard. In the midst of illness, poverty and war, they manage to transform something dire into something joyful, creating beauty where ugliness strikes.

Each short story plays in the same setting with 2 characters, each on their side of the glass of the visitors area from a prison that them (and also the world) divides.

After her parents’ separation, Carmela and her mother move into her grandmother’s home. As Carmela struggles to adjust to her new reality, she longs to spend more time at her father’s place, a visual artist she both admires and idolizes. His presence looms over the three generations of women, pushing them to confront and decide the future they each deserve.

Bibi and Ama are two lesbian friends in their early twenties. Hoping to become a better version of themselves, they move in together in an apartment in Brussels. Each in their very own way, but under the very same roof they come to share at least one new insight: coming out doesn’t mean coming clean.

A young operative is sent on a mission to follow an older agent who's behavior has come into question.