Christoph Terhechte is presenting a selection of this year's Forum titles at the Cinémathèque de Tanger as part of the "Berlinale Spotlight" series from March 24-26.

The programme will open with Tala Hadid's TIGMI N IGREN (HOUSE IN THE FIELDS) which portrays two sisters in a remote Berber village in the Atlas Mountains.

Other films on display are MENASHE by Joshua Z Weinstein, YOZORA HA ITSU DEMO SAIKOU MITSUDO NO AOIRO DA (THE TOKYO NIGHT SKY IS ALWAYS THE DENSEST SHADE OF BLUE) by Yuya Ishii, ADIÓS ENTUSIASMO (SO LONG ENTHUSIASM) by Vladimir Durán, RIFLE by Davi Pretto and Ali Essafis OBOUR AL BAB ASSABEA (CROSSING THE SEVENTH GATE).

ALFILM is presenting artistically demanding cinema from the Arab world between 31st March and 7th April, with feature and documentary films that depict new perspectives on societal challenges but also pose questions with regard to identity and personal fulfillment. The opening film is RABIH (Tramontane, Vatche Boulghourjian, Lebanon/F/Qatar/UAE 2016, 31.3., guest: Vatche Boulghourjian & composer Cynthia Zaven) Rabih is a blind and talented musician and singer who lives in a village in Lebanon. When his chorus is invited to perform abroad, he applies for a passport. He finds out that his papers are false and his identity is not what his family had led him to believe. He travels across the country to find out more about his background, but instead of finding answers he encounters more mysteries. His search takes him to the peripheries of Lebanon, to the ghosts of the past. The more he delves into the abyss of his existence, the darker the stories of the people become until finally it seems as if Rabih is the only one who can look truth in the face.