Having lost his father, 12-year-old Farhad lives with his mother and little sister in the village of Nahooj. Drawn to photography and the magazines he can get his hands on, Farhad sells one of his sheep to buy a second-hand camera. His mother finds out and demands that he return it and get a refund. A driver secretly in love with her will help Farhad with his adventure.
Spacious landscapes and a cloudless sky decorate the walls surrounding the little zoo in Palestine: screaming illusory allegories of freedom. Humans feed the animals and talk to them. Just a regular day at the zoo. If it were not for the giraffe that was shot dead by the Israeli military; or for the lions who were only allowed to be imported after being sterilised. Timidly, the workers at the zoo start talking about what it means to live and work under occupation.
In a small farm, away from city and deep in the mountains lives two young boys and their grandmother. They spend their mornings farming vegetables, and then heading to a road where they sit and wait to sell to travellers passing by. Only to return home, to tend to their sick grandmother with the medicine they had to buy from the little money they make. This film takes a look into their lives in their surroundings, while the road as their main source of making a living, it is the road that will determine their destiny.
Consequences of the collapse of a new realty.
Rare footage of Saad Zaghloul's return from exile in 1923 and the Egyptian reception of him, filmed by Egyptian cinema pioneer Mohamed Bayoumi.
A poor man strives to help his family.
A short documentary based on the book "A Bedouin Physician".
Can the lines in a hand hold stories? What memories do the grooves store?
Based on the successful social series, “Al Maht” revolves around a struggling high school graduate in choosing his destiny.
Comedy plays that aim to draw a smile on the faces of Arab viewers through the topics that you talk about in a funny and humorous manner of the first degree.
A romantic comedy that begins with a young man who meets a beautiful girl and hopes that things will turn out in his favor To become his future wife, the duo decide to go on the weekend, to meet the girl's family And obtaining the blessing of marriage also, and during the meeting a big surprise occurs that threatens to undermine the relationship!
This 'document' is attributed to a Lebanese Army intelligence officer, Operator #17, who was assigned to monitor the Corniche, a seaside boardwalk in Beirut. From 1996 onwards, and for some unknown reasons, the officer decided to videotape the sunset instead of his assigned targets.
A gang of students pulls an elaborate scam to make some money until they find themselves caught in their own gimmick.
the story is underway till the production start in few years
What happens with women in Moroccan prisons? Walls of concrete and silence are hiding a taboo, which is difficult to remove. The director Mohamed Nabil did everything to tell the story of Moroccan women’s prison. After many difficulties and two years of waiting for a filming permit, he and his team were finally able to enter this secret world.
Her journey that begins as a personal story, ends up being the story of other women who struggle to realize their dreams in a modern society.
Drama, inspired by real events, a feature film that sheds light on human misery and a corrupt system that pushes people toward illegal migration. From Africa to Europe, ruthless gangs organize trips into the unknown, promising them a better life. This film was shot with several amateur actors as well as former common law prisoners with the aim of reintegrating them into active life.
Trouble in Paradise is a dysfunctional sitcom set out to explore humor as a mechanism of coping with trauma, pain, and taboos in relation to the Nakba and the Israeli occupation, by posing three sets of jokes ranging from the classical misogynistic genre to anti-jokes and culturally specific humor; in order to examine why Nakba jokes never fully evolved as a genre and entered the Palestinian mainstream. The main protagonists of the film are the artist’s parents who do not speak English and read the jokes from transliterated title cards and have went through the Nakba (1948) and the Naksa (1967) and never shared their memories from these major events.
My uncle left Lebanon when he was just a teenager to become a belly dancer. Growing up with only what he had left behind, I've been wondering my whole life who Adam truly is.
