Film production in the Middle East reflects many of the political and cultural tensions in the region. In Iraq, Palestine or Lebanon, countries marked by armed conflicts of varying degrees, audiovisual production takes place in particularly dramatic contexts. Ali Hammoud, programmer of Beirut International Documentation Festival, Docudays; Hamodi Jasem, film director, former President of the Union of Iraqi Cineastas and lecturer at the Baghdad Film School, and Adnan Mdanat, one of the parents of Palestinian creator and film department director of the Shamoun Foundation in Jordan, talk about how the war environment determines the cinema that takes place in their countries.