Discover the selection of the 8th edition
2025 Atlas Workshops
Through the 28 projects presented, the selection of the Atlas Workshops for 2025 highlights unique, powerful stories told by voices from multiple cultures and territories. They reflect at once the diversity of Arab and African cinema as well as the profound themes that run through them—family ties, the dialogue between tradition and modernity, the search for identity, wounded childhood, emancipation, reconciliation, resilience—but also the voice of territories that resist, the awakening of environmental awareness, and the recurrent need to reinvent oneself. Established filmmakers and emerging talents.
Projects in Development
AKAL – Basma Rkioui (Morocco)
1st feature documentary
CHAPA 100 – Ique Langa (Mozambique)
2nd fiction feature
CHENTIAN – Suha Arraf (Palestine)
2nd fiction feature
A CHILDHOOD – Scandar Copti (Palestine)
3rd feature documentary
LES DIEUX DÉLINQUANTS – Boubacar Sangaré (Burkina Faso)
1st fiction feature
HOLD ME (IF YOU WANT) – Mounia Akl (Lebanon)
2nd fiction feature
LAST COW – Amil Shivji (Tanzania)
2nd fiction feature
THE MARCHES – Vatche Boulghourjian (Lebanon)
2nd fiction feature
SIMÉON IDRISS – Zineb Wakrim (Morocco)
1st fiction feature
UNDER GREEN SKIES – Jad Chahine (Egypt)
1st fiction feature
UNDER HER EYE – Amjad Al Rasheed (Jordan)
2nd fiction feature
VANDA – Kamy Lara (Angola)
1st fiction feature
Atlas Close-Ups
EARTH AND ASHES (TERRE ET CENDRES) – Leyna Tahiri (Morocco)
1st fiction feature
INTO THE BLUE NIGHT (VERS LA NUIT BLEUE) – Halima Elkhatabi (Morocco)
1st fiction feature
REMONTADA – Reda Lahmouid (Morocco)
1st fiction feature
THE TANJAWI (LE TANGÉROIS) – Zahoua Raji & Ayoub Layoussifi (Morocco)
1st fiction feature
TODAY, I AM 25 YEARS OLD – Shaden Safieddine Tazi (Morocco)
1st fiction feature
Films in Shooting or Post-production
DON’T LET THE SUN GO UP ON ME – Asmae El Moudir (Morocco)
2nd feature documentary
GOMA ENOUGH IS ENOUGH (GOMA TROP C’EST TROP) – Elisé Sawasawa (DRC)
1st feature documentary
GREY GLOW (LUEUR GRISE) – Michèle Tyan (Lebanon)
1st fiction feature
LA MÁS DULCE – Laïla Marrakchi (Morocco)
3rd fiction feature
ORIENT ADAGIO (QITAR AL-SHARQ AL-BATI’) – Maha Haj (Palestine)
3rd fiction feature
SAFE EXIT – Mohammed Hammad (Egypt)
2nd fiction feature
THE STATION – Sara Ishaq (Yemen)
1st fiction feature
TRIP TO JERUSALEM – Michel Zarazir and Gaby Zarazir (Lebanon)
1st fiction feature
VAGABONDS – Amartei Armar (Ghana)
1st fiction feature
WOLVES – Rami Kodeih (Lebanon)
1st fiction feature
Atlas Film Showcase
UNTIL DAWN (JUSQU’À L’AUBE) – Mohamed Zineddaine (Morocco)
Fiction feature
2025 Atlas Station
A fully-fledged professional program that complements the Atlas Workshops, the 2025 Atlas Station supports the young generation of Moroccan producers and directors.
Selected Moroccan Professionals
Lamia Bengelloun
Kenza Berrada Amor
Ines Lehaire
Linda Qibaa
Zainab Rabbaa
Fadila Taha
Oumayma Zekri Ajarrai
Selected Short Films in Post-production
BARZAKH (BARZAKH : LE MONDE INTERMÉDIAIRE) – Kenza Tazi (Morocco)
2nd short fiction film
THE BRIDE OF THE RAIN (TASLIT N’OUNZAR) – Driss Ouaamar (Morocco)
1st short animated film in production
DESERTED STREETS (RUES DÉSERTES) – Batoul Benazzou (Morocco)
1st short fiction film
MESK ELLIL – Adnane Rami (Morocco)
3rd short fiction film
