A New Beginning 2020
The arrival as Syrian refugees in Norway turns into a new beginning with challenges for a Syrian man and his young son.
The arrival as Syrian refugees in Norway turns into a new beginning with challenges for a Syrian man and his young son.
It's about a loving-life girl who faces many obstacles in her way achieving her dream nevertheless she insists on going on.
Two men trapped in a house for several months due to a disaster that hit the country.
Homs, the hero of the story, its old city wrote the story of Youssef and Yara in their search only for life, nothing but life, during the siege that lasted for a hundred and a few days. They did not choose to stay, did not choose the war, they fled from death so it searched for them.
An elderly man becomes anxious about death, because he caused his youth many problems, and many around him suffered as a result of the anarchy of his life, so he begins to search for forgiveness and decides to search for those he harmed in the past to reconcile them.
Amal is a 12 year old girl who lives in the Morocco countryside. Serious and passionate pupil, her dream is to become a doctor.
Lamia, Aya and Siham suffer from the rare disease called "Xeroderma Pigmentosum", the film shows their monotonous daily lives, how each accepts their illness differently, and how each has chosen to challenge reality.
An unflinchingly intimate chronicle of the filmmaker’s family in Morocco, made from footage collected over more than a decade, In Pieces captures the passage of time across generations. It is a poetic account of a country, as Belabbes, an eccentric figure in Moroccan cinema, records the extent to which larger social and political change has—or has not—affected his modest family. Narrated in a hybrid of first-person plural and singular, the film gracefully shifts between fiction and nonfiction.
For Tunisians, 1978 is forever linked to the memory of the famous national soccer team and its "epic journey to Argentina." It's a myth that marked my childhood, accompanied by an intriguing question: Why did my mother refuse to watch soccer? What if 1978 wasn't just about soccer?
This short film tells the story of Noorah, a young Arab woman drawn into a world of violence and treachery when her friend, Sarah, is abducted by Islamic militants and forced into servitude.
78 year old Fatma Hawari was a recently engaged young woman in 1948, when her village was bombed by Zionist forces during the Nakba. Found buried beneath the rubble with her lower body paralyzed, she sent her fiancé away and remained alone in a wheel chair, living in what became Israel. Every once in a while, she would take out the wedding dress she never wore. Then, over ten years ago, a man arrived in the village and asked for her forgiveness he was the pilot who had bombed her house. Unable to forgive, she sent him away, later to learn that he was Abe Nathan, better known as an Israeli peace activist. Years later, told by Israel that she is ineligible for war casualty compensation, as only “Arabs” could have caused her injuries, Fatma decides to trace Nathan, and ask him to confirm in writing that he had indeed bombed her home and family.
An Iraqi LGBT refugee who is also a belly dancer escapes his country and moves to Greece, seeking safety from a family who wants him dead and hoping to find a home that will grant him a life in peace and tranquility.
A documentary following an ancient Jinn called Mother of Fire and her ruminations on the history of the UAE, colonial meddling and contemporary Eurocentric museum display practice.
Majed discovers that his recently deceased mother used to be a belly dancer. Life is full of unknowns and this is just now becoming clear to him. Torn between his relationship with his now-silent father, and Hanine, the woman who will help him overcome his grief, Majed takes a trip down memory lane into the mysterious past of his mother.
Sunset Oasis is a short film inspired by the character of Nima for the novel of Bahaa Taher
Bombers flying over Palestine, PFLP soldiers, civilians taking cover in shelters; through footage from a 1974 film by Kassem Hawal, the oppressed confront their occupiers.
The film is set in a comedy about the life of a Tunisian family in which the mother favors her son Selim. What will the other brothers do to get the spoiled boy out of their lives forever?