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Produced and presented by Eos World Fund: In occupied Golan Heights, a desperate unlicensed doctor subverts his village's expectations when he accidentally encounters a wounded soldier from the war in Syria.

Al Gharib premiered at the Venice International Film Festival in September 2021.

“The story is simple but the film is wider than the story. What inspired me was a character study of a stranger in his own society. This idea is valid, unfortunately, these days in the Arab world: To be a black sheep or the unwanted seed. That’s the story. The main character (played by Ashraf Barhoum) is in an existential crisis from the Syrian war. But this experience could happen in different dimensions in different worlds,”

– Ameer Fakhar Eldin