Black 2019
A documentary film about the black Abaya.
A documentary film about the black Abaya.
Two amazing children dreaming about a Lebanese star leaving on the other side of the wall. A touching short on the Moroccan society and its social classes differences.
The story of an old abandoned cinema in Kosti, a town in White Nile state.
Eltayeb Mahdis film ARBA'A MARAT LIL ATFAL depicts the everyday life at that time in facilities and schools for children with physical or mental disabilities. Children in class are being shown where amongst other things art, woodwork and speaking are being taught but also the hustle and bustle in the schoolyard as well as physiotherapy and the handling of walking aids are being described.
A portrait of a migrant worker in Lebanon.
The life of a face mask
This documentary is unique from the previous films that dealt with the Corona pandemic, as it raises the issue of the virus that has stoned the entire world and stopped the wheel from the viewpoint of scientists who are currently spending time on the front lines in fighting the virus. From students of his fairy code, through suggested treatments, to vaccines, and their availability soon. The documentary also includes impressive testimonies of the infected survivors and testimonies of relatives who have lost loved ones, giving the film a human look that shows how our lives and human relationships have changed in the time of Corona and his enemy
Hussain, a jovial patient, seems at home in his hospital room. Bedridden with a chronic illness, he uses his pocket tape recorder to voice his thoughts. He understands his time is near and seems to be at peace with it. When a brash, angry, young man Khalid is shifted to his room, he starts feeling protective towards him. With his life coming to an end, he makes a crucial decision – a decision that will give Khalid a second chance at life.
It is the story of two adjacent villages, between them a runner and a bridge between them and a girl enchanted on the bridge. The bridge and the cutter were lost on a long-standing enmity that continued and deepened day after day. But the cause of enmity is unknown and has nothing to do with the crucifixion of the story. In the past, the two communities gathered a relationship of friendship and love until a mysterious grudge came and separated them, making them one of the deadliest enemies. The estate of the bridge cut off the course of water heading towards the cutter's estate, causing its lands to dry up and destroy its crops. A state of explosive hatred and boiling prevailed between the two villages for a long time.
Straight out of Khartoum comes a short film featuring a collection of young men who call themselves Hip Hop Artists, In Search of Hip Hop, directed and shot by Issraa El-Kogali, offers a an inside look at a fresh new wave of creative expression in Sudan. With a recent boom in live performances and visiting DJs and MCs from Europe and the USA the Hip Hop fire is really catching on in the city of two Niles. The film features live performances, spur of the moment free-styling and footage from the first Sudan Boombox live DJ party in spring of 2010.
The painfully brutal tale of the sexual awakening of a young Palestinian man as influenced by the his libido and the violence around him. His encounter with an elderly Jewish man in Tel Aviv stirs memories and bring these feelings to a head.
Imagine that your father is a Palestinian Arab, and he had fought against Franco in the Spanish Civil War. Imagine that you have siblings, and you cannot talk to them because you do not speak the same language. Imagine that you have a family, but you were raised without parents... The film reveals the extraordinary story of a Palestinian family.
this movie talks about the people who earn their living day-by-day in Cairo.
History is to be told, and its stories unfold into a territory, where the archeology of times owes its survival to fiction.
In many ways the sister film to 'Horse of Mud', Al-Abnoudy’s graduation film at the Film School in Cairo is a portrait of Cairo’s street performers. The artistry of this community of fire-eaters, acrobats, child contortionists, and musicians is captured through the lens of Al-Abnoudy’s unobtrusive camera, accompanied by the spare and haunting narration provided by poet Abdel Rahman Al-Abnoudy. Playing with the poetry that offers image and cinema, she pays tribute to those underground enterteiners, giving back its letters of nobility to a marginalized and downgraded popular art.
Mamdouh, a young man estranged from his father, starts a poultry farm on his secretary's advice. He meets his secretary's sister Aida, a young woman looking for wealth. When he introduces her to the dancer Nousa, she convinces Aida to become a belly dancer.
A mother living in a rural village came to visit her son and grandson in the city, but her son gave her a piece of paper and asked her to wait for him in the street. When will the son be back, and what's on that piece of paper?