Akka Films Movies

Mexico, March 2015. Carmen Aristegui, incorruptible journalist, has been fired from the radio station where she has worked for years. Supported by...

Reboleira, a suburb of Lisbon. After a robbery gone wrong, a car ends up crashed right in the middle of the neighborhood. The driver is arrested, but...

Johannesburg, 1968. Khuthala hates his father's laundry and doesn't want to take over the family business. But the apartheid government is cracking...

A teenager unwittingly reveals a terrible family secret to her new neighbors.

"From Ground Zero" is a compelling project that brings together 22 short films created by talented filmmakers from Gaza. Launched by Rashid...

Successful real estate agent Sevda is on the verge of closing a major project in Istanbul. However, just before construction is set to begin, she...

A map of Gaza, its towns, camps and neighbourhoods. White paint on a black ground. Within the crudely drawn outlines, nine refugees who escaped the...

In the dead of night, Renuka escapes from a Delhi brothel after stabbing a policeman to death. She takes refuge in a community of sex workers in...

Among the trees, young women and men working the summer harvest develop new feelings, flirt, try to understand each other, find – and flee...

Living in the West Bank of Palestine, a filmmaker suffering from chronic headaches consults a psychologist in pursuit of a cure. After being treated,...

Ten years ago, activists wanting to experience a collective way of life besieged a wooded countryside near Nantes in order to block the construction...

A set-up for an experiment in an empty room. Former inmates reconstruct an Israeli secret service interrogation centre. These Palestinian men use...

Over a dozen students at this school in Quebec were radicalised. To tackle the issue, a pilot project was launched to heal divides within the student...

Using their bare hands, married couple Htwe Tin and Thein Shwe draw oil from a pit they drilled themselves on the land next to their house. There are...

In 2013, a 2,000-year-old statue of Apollo was found near Gaza, only to disappear all of a sudden. Apollo, god of art, beauty and divinations,...

The fascinating story behind the Geneva Initiative, a peace plan for the Middle East. Set up by a group of seven very different individuals –...

In 1967, in the middle of the Cold War, Joseph Stalin's only daughter goes to the American embassy in New Delhi and asks for asylum. Svetlana leaves...

Didier works on a cattle farm. Deaf from birth, he lives alone in an isolated house in the countryside. Since the death of his brother and only...

Samir hardly knows his father. Hoping to become closer with him, he decides to accompany a hunter on a expedition in the mountains.

Examines the complex role of UNRWA, an "apolitical" agency that has found itself at the heart of the most political debates of the century.