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We are thrilled to announce the selection of eight projects for the second round of the AFLAMUNA Impact Fund’s 2024.
The AFLAMUNA Impact Fund supports powerful Arab film Impact Campaigns that tackle the urgent social, political, and environmental issues plaguing our region.
These projects, originating from Lebanon, Egypt, Iraq, and Sudan, were chosen by jury members, Darin Sallam, Zeina Daccache, and Hala Lotfy.
Darin J. Sallam, an award-winning Jordanian writer and director of Palestinian roots, holds an MFA from the Red Sea Institute of Cinematic Arts. Her acclaimed debut feature FARHA (2021) premiered at TIFF, won Jordan’s first APSA, and was submitted for the 95th Academy Awards. A Berlinale Talent and Film Independent Fellow, Sallam co-founded TaleBox and was named among Variety’s Impactful International Women of 2023.
Zeina produced the groundbreaking “12 Angry Lebanese” (2009) with Roumieh Prison inmates, earning global acclaim and aiding the enactment of Law 463, reducing sentences for good behavior. In 2013, she created “Scheherazade in Baabda” with Baabda Prison women, inspiring the award-winning “Scheherazade’s Diary” and advocating for domestic violence laws. Her third documentary, “The Blue Inmates” (2021), highlights mentally ill offenders, winning four awards and sparking legislative efforts in Lebanon.
Hala Lotfy, an Egyptian filmmaker, studied Economics and Political Science at Cairo University (1995) and filmmaking at the Cairo Film Institute, graduating with honors in 1999. After leaving commercial filmmaking, she directed three independent documentaries (2001–2004) and worked with Al Jazeera on *Arabs of Latin America* (2005–2006). In 2010, she founded Hassala Films to support independent artists. In 2011, she received the prestigious Katrin Cartlidge Foundation Award.
by Rogena Tarek
Egypt
On a remote, isolated island with no way out, a mother and her four daughters grapple with the harsh realities of their predetermined fates: grueling factory work, early marriages, and lives devoid of education. Will they break free from this cycle and pursue their dreams?
by Carol Mansour & Muna Khalidy
Lebanon
After bearing witness to the unprecedented horrors of an ongoing genocide, a war surgeon emerges from Gaza calling for justice and accountability.
by Sandra Abrass
Lebanon
Sandra dares to say, to feel, and to strip herself on screen, in a frame, that represents a simple yet challenging life. Her camera becomes a witness of life, death, motherhood, war, destruction, reconstruction, sickness, God, nature and people.
by Alaa El-Dejanie
Egypt
A young peasant, Younis Abdalla, brought to the front lines of the First World War in France only to find himself merely escaping a massacre by the allied forces that recruited him. An untold history of survival, labor and colonialism.”
by Ibrahim Ahmad, Rawia Alhaj, Anas Saeed, and Timeea Mohamed Ahmed
Sudan
Five lives, one city, and the fate of Sudan. A civil servant, tea-lady, medic, and two street boys seek freedom through dreams, revolution, and war, journeying from Khartoum to Nairobi in a fight for survival.
Iraq
