Arab Shorts - CAFF 2026

Tarab

Bahrain

Said in three parts before, during, and after the wedding- and from three outside perspectives, a bride and groom's special day is clouded with memories, assumptions, and emotions. As each telling reshapes the story, the film reveals how the privacy of love and truth is often obscured by the perceptions of others.

Noss Finjen

Lebanon

A devastating explosion shatters a young girl’s dreams and visions for her future in Beirut, but in the aftermath she encounters an elderly couple whose disarmingly ordinary response to catastrophe transforms her understanding of survival.

Floating in the Sand

Saudi Arabia

A young girl named Joory longs to visit the sea her late mother loved, but her grieving father refuses, burdened by loss and the hidden fear of not being able to swim. As their emotional distance grows, Joory takes matters into her own hands, unaware of the vulnerability holding him back.

Constant

Kuwait/Qatar

As her husband returns from a business trip, a woman makes her way home through the city night. Reflecting on seven years of shared harmony she wanders through the streets and recalls the closeness they built while sensing the quiet internal shifts reshaping her. Aware of the microscopic changes within her own body, she recognises a growing dissonance in a once flawless bond, slowly falling out of step for no discernible reason.

Overnight

France

Ward is back in Damascus as the revolution just started to shake Syria, but other, more intimate events are going to overwhelm the young woman and add to the chaos.

Jammed

Egypt

In 1990s, Egypt ,Tarik a shy teenager and his bold best friend Adel set out to secretly watch their first adult film—unaware their reckless adventure will spiral into consequences that shake their lives and the entire nation

Mess, Chaos & the Wedding on Sunday

Lebanon

Maya has a life-altering problem to solve but with everyone around her having other plans, her attempt to fix her life might just blow it up instead.