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Residents of Tripoli, Lebanon, reckon with the legacy of an abandoned architectural monstrosity.

SOWT is the voice of an oblivion culture that about to go lost.The documentary introduces us to a poet until recently has been listent to, in a forgotten culture in the south; with Sleymen Rihani... With his improvisation had developed against the instant case, with the humor he had sprinkled to the improvisation, with his instrument that became the partner of his voice, and most importantly Antioch Arab poet Sleymen Rihani who had sung classic Arabic songs with his strong throat, is the monument of the verbal culture. SOWT(Voice), that is prepared by the director Gökhan Evecen who blends the oral history studies with the documentary, is his second study after "Finnen" documentary which tells about Antioch Arabic poets.

A young man driven by a distant lover to return to his roots, searching for answers to his inner conflicts

A letter, delivered to the lawyer Amr Al-Hakim turns his life upside down and until his life returns to the way he had to start investigating seven cases

Nadia, a 5-year-old girl, lives in the slums of Casablanca, surrounded by a wall that separates it from the rest of the city. One day, Nadia notices an unusual activity around the wall. Municipality workers deploy their tools and start painting the wall. Why is this sudden interest in the wall?

A woman, alone in bed at night, starts having weird convulsions after a mysterious phone message. A green stain of mold starts growing on the wall in front of her. How will she escape the night?

A simple film produced by a group of young artists. The idea of the film revolves around a romantic love story between a young man from a poor family and a girl from a rich family. The film is a romantic comedy. The struggle begins to affect true love between the two lovers.

Kheireddine Pasha (1822-1890) was Ottoman-Tunisian statesman and reforme. First serving as Prime Minister of the Beylik of Tunis, he later achieved the high post of Grand Vizier of the Ottoman Empire. He was a pragmatic activist who reacted against poverty, and looked to European models for suggestions. He applied the Islamic concept of the public interest, to economic issues. He emphasized the central role of justice and security in economic development. He was a major advocate of modernization for Tunisia's political and economic systems.

A man is about to cross a busy road, he falls, a car is moving towards him at full speed. A reality TV show begins to comment on the event: either the man will die or the driver will die, or both will die. It's up to the public to vote.

Bassem, a cinephile, is happy to attend the screening of the film Bamako as part of the 2006 Carthage Film Festival. The screening starts and Bassem discovers that the reels of the film are reversed: the film starts in the middle. No one seems to pay attention to it.

Mokhtar earns his living as a puppeteer, aided by his son. Using his old van, he moves between the few schools scattered in the gloomy countryside.

Ali Raïs is a pirate armed by the Bey of Tunis. In the year 124, his fleet was arrested by the Marquis of Santa Cruz and he found himself a prisoner, with his six hundred men in Palermo. Italian witnesses will recognize him and denounce him to the Inquisition as a renegade, an indictment which is liable to the stake. Ali seeks to influence the course of the trial, he denies ever having been a Christian and proclaims himself a Muslim, the son of a Muslim. A long game of failure takes place between the court and the prisoner, he alternately tries to speed up or slow down the course of the trial depending on the nature of the information and testimony available to the inquisitors. We believe we are witnessing a modern trial where the shots alternate according to the investigations. This story of Ali Raïs was however not invented, the character is real and all the facts are recorded in a handwritten account of the hearings of the court of the inquisition.

A film about Damascus, an 11,000 years old city, the most ancient and precious of cities, set to the poetry of the world famous Palestinian poet Mahmoud Darwish.

The story surrounds a young boy called Obaid. He is confronted with a choice to live an easy life in this world or to struggle for reward in the hereafter. The story takes place during the tyrannical rule of King Narsis, who controls his people by encouraging them to worship idols and frightening them with the magic of Cinatas, his evil sorcerer. Cinatas chooses Obaid to be his student, someone who will assist him in his magic. At first, the boy is tempted by dreams of the power and the influence he will wield as the king's next sorcerer. But, soon after he starts to question his priorities. He begins talking to a righteous and a very holy man, who opens his mind to the true meaning of life.

A personal short film by Abdullah Habib.

A series of dreams plague a woman in her early thirties in which she reflects on her relationships with her mother, father, and lover. Through her dreams, we see how her subconscious views these connections and the psychological traumas that they left behind.