Choke

Jo's world is thrown into utter disarray when her wife Amanda passes away and she starts chasing a dream that she and Amanda had once shared - starting a family together. Jo asks her late wife's brother, Jamie, to be her sperm donor and craziness ensues.

The lives of three young Middle Eastern women intertwine as they struggle to defy tradition and create their own realities. From an arranged marriage and a lesbian love affair to an abusive family situation, the film delicately tackles some of the issues Middle Eastern women are confronted with today.

Kareem’s family has lived in Jerusalem for many generations. Him and his best friend, Elias, travel around villages and giving ghost tours, conning naive tourists through their company they call “Holy Ghost Tours.” They tell tourists the story about the mythical Ghouleh of Jerusalem his Teta (grandmother) told him, a demon from her old village who steals people’s memories.

Longtime best friends decide to make a sex tape together to get back at their ex-girlfriend and ex-boyfriend. But under the thumb of fame, the two friends start to realize that stardom may not be all it’s chalked up to be. Inklings of feelings between the two friends spark jealousy, and scandals threaten to undo the fame they finally achieved.