Aintisar almunahzam

Aintisar almunahzam 1967

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A poor young man lives in a simple room and falls in love with a rich girl, but her father, the property owner, rejects their relationship which complicate matters greatly.

1967

Mum

Mum 1970

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After 15 years of averting the source of her anxiety, Mariam at last walks the journey of voicing her avoided emotions regarding her non Emirati mother, and the uneasiness she felt about her mixed background in the Emirati society.

1970

Chakchouka

Chakchouka 1970

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Iheb, a young director at the start of his film career, decides to take to the streets and ask people what the idea of their films would be if they were directors. Following everyone's ideas, Iheb decides to make a film that brings together all the ideas of the people he has interviewed and shows it to the same people to get their opinion. He ends up alone in an empty movie theater in front of a white screen.

1970

Requiem for Silence

Requiem for Silence 2022

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Majed explores his struggle with an unwanted malicious entity that unexpectedly comes into his life – an unbearable noise that afflicts his hitherto everyday existence - and his ultimate acceptance of their co-existence.

2022

Summer Pack

Summer Pack 2022

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In the desert of Morocco the characters of film chose to live in isolation from the city and its society. Harmonious with difficult environmental conditions, they take pleasure in speaking to the Creator far from creation in boundless spaces.

2022

Kashta

Kashta 2016

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Out in the beautiful quiet of the desert, a man teaches his young sons how to track and hunt. Frustration leads to an apparently harmless struggle between the two brothers – but their carelessness brings about sudden disaster. Qatari filmmaker A.J. Al Thani’s film strikes just the right balance of calm and calamity, adolescence and adulthood, knowhow and panic to tell a seemingly simple story with a sense of gravity that will echo with anyone who has seen an innocent plan go horribly wrong.

2016

Shireen Abu Akleh: The Extrajudicial Killing of a Journalist

Shireen Abu Akleh: The Extrajudicial Killing of a Journalist 2022

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In this short documentary, the Forensic Architecture research group reconstructs the death of the Palestinian-American journalist Shireen Abu Akleh. While reporting on an Israeli military raid on a refugee camp in the West Bank in May 2022, she and her colleagues came under fire, allegedly from a military convoy 200 meters away.

2022

Journey Inside a City

Journey Inside a City 2022

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This short, autobiographical documentary combines phone monologues, dashboard camera footage, and visual accounts from social media to make a unique, inside look into the life of an up-and-coming female artist from Baghdad who inevitably crosses paths with political turmoil. Munaf documents her journey from her attempts at creating contemporary art in a very limiting environment, the ISIS invasion, and her emigration to Turkey to the invasion of Ukraine where her parents emigrated to.

2022

The Pot

The Pot 2005

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Pregnancy is the center of middle-eastern Muslim woman's life. Marrying, getting pregnant & raising kids are her reason for being; what would a dream be then? The film is an exploration of 4 ambitious women choices of work and\or family. It is a search of their hidden faces & of the factors effecting their choices & drives. It is a brief approach to the life and choices of four middle-eastern young women trying to find their individuality within their social, religious & political surroundings. A view of their discourses, whether they were trying to justify their compromises & surrender, or trying to break-out in what seems to be an absurd quest.

2005

Domestics Acoustics

Domestics Acoustics 2017

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An experimental endeavor that explores the overlap of domestic and creative spaces, and their relationship to the female artist.

2017

Diaries from Between, West Bank

Diaries from Between, West Bank 2014

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“Diaries from Between, West Bank” documents the landscape of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict in the West Bank in video. The narrative builds its structure from the geography of the region, from Jerusalem to the Palestinian Territories and the Jordan Valley. It explores the manifold ways of seeing both man’s control over a specific territory, and also man’s control over the people that inhabit it.

2014

Edres

Edres 2022

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A 17-year-old Eritrean boy fled the war in his country to settle in Egypt, where he dreams to overcome the barriers and get a chance to become a promising professional football player and help his family back home.

2022

Evacuation

Evacuation 2022

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Saudi short documentary about the evacuation of a neighbourhood.

2022

Inside Happy Faces

Inside Happy Faces 2021

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During his boring day job, a distressed Karim and his co-workers are facing a formal committee that are giving a random drug analysis to all employees in the building. Will they pass the test?

2021

Jeyetna

Jeyetna 2021

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Since 2019, menstrual products have been unaffordable for almost three quarters of the Lebanese population. Jeyetna draws ten intimate portraits of women experiencing period poverty (including Amira, a refugee from Syria, Gigi, a transgender woman, and Funmi, a migrant worker from Nigeria).

2021

The People of No Man's Land: Rukban Desert Camp

The People of No Man's Land: Rukban Desert Camp 2019

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‘The People Of No Man’s land’ is a 25 minute exclusive documentary, which takes the viewer on a journey inside Al-Rukban camp, an unofficial and unsupported refugee camp between the borders of Syria and Jordan. Since no journalist or media have access to Al-Rukban. In this film the many challenges that the people of Al-Rukban face become clear through the eyes of Umm Hussein, a 42 year old woman living in the camp. She and other inhabitants describe the terrible living conditions, picturing a dark place in which people are left alone with very little help from the outside world. But despite their suffering, the people in Al-Rukban continue to live their life in the middle of the desert. They have changed tents for stone buildings and try to rebuild their society from scratch.

2019

Drifters

Drifters 2015

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a story of an orthopedic surgeon from Agami and how his close relationship to the sea , philosophy of life , firm principles and passion for woodwork led him to rediscover his true potential away from what most societies call success routes . On his journey he encounters kindred spirits who flock together in pursuit of happiness , freedom and self - expression .

2015