In collaboration with the MedFilm4All project.

Soufra follows the incredible and inspiring story of an intrepid social entrepreneur, Mariam Shaar, a generational refugee who spent her whole life in the Burl El Barajneh refugee camp, built 65 years ago south of Beirut, Lebanon. The film follows the vicissitudes of Mariam as she ventures, against all odds, into an initiative that will forever change her destiny: to launch a successful catering company, "Soufra", with the aim of expanding into the food truck business. Through this initiative, Miriam claims the right to own a business. To do this, she will work along with a diverse team of colleagues, also women refugees, with whom she lives in the refugee camp, sharing it as their home.

For this edition of the Festival, Soufra will compete for the Coop Award.

Thomas Morgan

He is a film Director whose films have been leveraged to create lasting movements with a specific call to action. In his first film, Storied Streets, Morgan captured the painful reality of homelessness in America and gracefully unearths pain and personal triumphs of those living unhoused in our country. Through the film he has elevated awareness of the problem on thousands of college campuses, petitioned in front of Congress, and pushed for laws to make violence against the homeless a hate crime and the abolishment of laws criminalizing homelessness.

His latest film, Soufra, was acclaimed by critics of the New York Times and Los Angeles Times; it won numerous awards for film festivals around the world and was even screened in the Vatican. Soufra was used to raise nearly $ 1 million to build a school in the field and now 150 refugee children have access to education.