Between light and darkness stands Olfa, a Tunisian woman and the mother of four daughters. One day, her two older daughters disappear. To fill in their absence, the filmmaker Kaouther Ben Hania invites professional actresses and invents a unique cinema experience that will lift the veil on Olfa and her daughters’ life stories.Read More »
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Kaouther Ben Hania – Les filles d’Olfa AKA Four Daughters (2023)
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Adil El Arbi & Bilall Fallah – Rebel (2022)
Adil El Arbi2021-2030ActionBelgiumBilall FallahDramaA portrayal of a family torn apart over a little Muslim boy’s future.Read More »
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Kamal El Sheikh – El-Lailah el-Akhirah (1963)
1961-1970EgyptKamal El SheikhMysteryThrillerDuring 1942, Nadia Burhan lives with her mother in Alexandria, Fawzia lives with her husband Shaker, whom she married against her family’s will. Nadia meets Salah and agree to get married. Fawzia dies from a German bombardment of the city, and Nadia has amnesia and Fawzia’s husband tries to delude Nadia that she’s Fawzia.Read More »
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Darin J. Sallam – Farha (2021)
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Michel Khleifi – Hikayatul jawahiri thalath AKA The Tale of the Three Lost Jewels (1995)
Michel Khleifi1991-2000ArthouseDramaPalestineA Palestinian boy becomes entranced with a beautiful Gypsy girl and a fairy tale world she weaves amidst conflict in Gaza. The children explore nature, mysticism and what their future holds, while learning to live with the surrounding brutality c. 1990. Yusef’s family scrapes by in a seaside camp while his father’s in prison and his heavily-armed brother’s on the run, parrying with Israeli troops. Salah, Yusef’s schoolmate from a well-off Arab family strives faithfully to assist them, while Yusef helps an elderly, blind neighbor escape from his lonely abandonment into the North American dreamworld he’s waited so long for.Read More »
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Kamal El Sheikh – Hayat ou maut (1955)
1951-1960ClassicsEgyptKamal El-ShaikhThrillerLife or Death (Arabic: Hayat ou maut) is a 1955 Egyptian film directed by Kamal El Sheikh. It was entered into the 1955 Cannes Film Festival.
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A man with cardiac problems, had heart attack and sent his daughter to get the medicine from the drug store, however the pharmacist discovers that he sent the wrong medication, he cooperates with the police to stop a disaster.Read More » -
Mai Masri – Frontiers of Dreams and Fears (2001)
2001-2010DocumentaryMai MasriPalestineWarMona and Manar are two Palestinian girls growing up in refugee camps in Beirut and Bethlehem. Despite the overwhelming barriers that separate them, the girls form a close friendship through letters and a dramatic reunion across the Lebanese border with Palestine. Shot during the liberation of south Lebanon from Israeli occupation and the beginning of the Palestinian intifada, FRONTIERS OF DREAMS AND FEARS articulates the dreams and hopes of a generation of young Palestinians living in exile.Read More »
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Remi Lange – Tarik El Hob AKA The Road to Love (2001)
2001-2010DramaFranceQueer Cinema(s)Remi LangeRomanceROAD TO LOVE explores the theme of homosexuality as it is manifested among Islamic/Arab men. This romantic story goes from Paris to Marseille, from Amsterdam to Morocco via Jean Genet’s grave in Larache, and on to Tangiers. The movie tells the story of an Algerian-French heterosexual young man beginning a sociology study of gay islamic homosexualities and discovering gay love with a young French man.Read More »
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Arab Nasser & Tarzan Nasser – Dégradé (2015)
Arab Nasser2011-2020DramaPalestineTarzan NasserIn Gaza, two hairdressers and ten customers of various ages and backgrounds spend the day trapped in a beauty salon while Hamas police fight a gang in the street.Read More »