In a short film that blends archival material with poetry, Francesco di Gioa reveals the story of the Libyan pot Fadil Hasin Ash-Shalmani. His deportation to Italy reveals one of the forgotten and violent faxes of italian colonization in Libya.
Traveling in the city of Beirut, a small fire particle finds its way into a middle aged man’s home, where upon its entry, the reality of this man shifts from seemingly-normal, to a never-ending nightmare.
Surrounded by her loving family on her fifth birthday, a sudden event occurs that will shape Mira’s life forever. Peek-A-Boom is a story of splitting paths and unexpected circumstances.
Probably the first film directed by Malak Mroueh.
Moroccan feature film tell the story of "Ibrahim", who, accompanied by his wife "Evelyn" and their two sons "Nadia" and "Radwan", decides to return to Morocco to settle permanently, especially after the head of the family managed to provide an important wealth that he intends to invest in Equipping the estate he inherited from his father.
Timid and shy eleven-year-old George from an Arab Christian family suffers from the mockery of classmates over the fact that his body hair began to grow early. At home, the brutal hairy father, in turn, is annoyed that his son is too quiet and almost ready to cry. What should a boy do if he feels that the whole world is against him?
Christina, a 21 year old Lebanese, bold and carefree girl has been trying to hide her unstable relationship with her girlfriend Maya, who is rather reserved and afraid to come out in a country where homosexuality is illegal.
This short documentary follows a mother (Aysha) and daughter (Osha) as they travel through the desert hunting with falcons, the traditional Emirati method that has been passed down through the generations.
A short documentary about the life and true story of Laila Abdulaziz, a pioneer of music in the Arabian Gulf and staple of Kuwaiti history who had a vision for the future that no one was ready for, not even herself.
Kidnapped from her village in North Iraq by ISIS, just a few months after marrying Mohammed, a 25- year-old Yazidi woman named Ellan is released from captivity and returns home with a newborn child from the ISIS father.
Moonscape is a short film which takes the form of a music video for a ballad/middle of the road song, performed as a duet between a male and female singer, in Arabic. The song traces the story of a man called Dennis M. Hope, who claimed ownership of the Moon in 1980 and thus founded the Lunar Embassy – a company that sells land on a variety of planets and Moons, and makes a connection between his story and that of the director's – a young Palestinian woman living under the Israeli occupation, longing to end the misery of her people in any way possible.
Two Friends living on the Lebanese Palestinian borders, spending a normal day by the beach, spot a foreigner girl taking a picture of them with her camera, they both decide to confiscate her film camera and keep her as hostage.
The story of Palestinian families from the village of Tiret Haifa (now Tiret al Karmel) who fled or were driven out of their land in 1948 and have since been scattered among the West Bank, Syria and Jordan.
In THIS PALESTINIAN LIFE, director Philip Rizk uses an oral history approach to highlight the stories and perspectives of Palestinian villagers and Bedouin. This method avoids using "experts" to interpret the broader Palestinian-Israeli conflict. Rather, the film's anthropological and ethnographic method portrays the daily life of Palestinian communities, in order to explore in greater depth how Palestinian life is being undermined by the pressure of Israeli occupation. Especially in Gaza, this style reveals the profound fragmentation of community life. The following stories are threaded together and interlaced to reveal the similarity of Israeli measures of occupation throughout Gaza and the West Bank, and the similarity of Palestinian reactions through sumoud – perseverance – to remain on the land.
Through the daily life of Jerusalemite social worker Riham, we discover the difficult situation and suffering experienced by four families because of the political, economic and social circumstances in the Old City. Riham faces her own Personal difficulties in her wish to marry Omar. His family opposes the marriage fearing for their own reputation, do to the habits of her brother.
