A Palestinian journalist questions the expansion of Israeli settlements and the devastating consequences it brings to long-term Arab villagers. Her investigation leads her to various testimonies - by human rights activists and architects, by Israeli townspeople and particularly by suffering Palestinian villagers whose claim to land is supposedly "less ancient" than the Jews.
In December 2015, a team of US- and Canadian-based ethnographers, comic artists, and a small crew of filmmakers took off to Cairo, Egypt, to work on the in-process graphic novel Lissa: Still Time.
October 2011, nine months after the Tunisian Revolution of January 14, Tunisian women are running for the elections of the Constituent Assembly, some are from political parties, some are complete novices, some are activists of the early hours who joined parties to be part of the lists in the running and others are running as independents. They are in campaign, they criss-cross the Tunisian cities and villages, do meetings, door-to-door, enter the cafes "men", stick themselves their posters and distribute their leaflets. Who are they, what path has brought them to the political arena, what are their motivations and their weapons to lead such an unprecedented battle?
our beautiful countries are destroyed
Um Mohamed is a proud mother of three and a wife to a polio survivor. Due to his disability, he struggles and is incapable of joining the work force. As a result, Um Mohamed roams the streets of Irbid and collects scrap metal and recyclables and sells them in a male-dominant industrial area. Though she provides for her family and has earned the title of the breadwinner, she does not earn the respect and appreciation that comes with it, as she's still expected to fulfill her cooking and cleaning duties at home.
Louisa, in her fifties, puts up missing person posters in search of her daughter, Souad. In a few shots, Fayçal Hammoum portrays a night of wandering through the streets of Algiers. The quest of his heroine—the magnificent Djalila Kadi Hanifi, her face lined by melancholy—underlines the profound divide between the generation of independence and the Algerian youth.
A philosophical field trip from Cairo, along the Nile and into the desert in search for what light means as a religious concept in post-revolutionary Egypt.
Nazem al-Ghazali
Faiza Ahmad
A playful and moving portrait of some women in Morocco. Evoking reality television, home video, and ethnographic film, its visual language is at once intimate and whimsical, with the director’s digital manipulations...amplifying...her subjects’ self-presentations.
After the death of his father, Mahmoud Abu Bakr sets out on a journey to penetrate into diabetes, in which he discovers the most important symptoms and risks facing the patient, in addition to their psychological state.
A short and personal documentary attempts to understand broader meanings of life, attitude, emotions, and the environment by raising questions and exploring the notion of movement inside cars, inviting audiences to view their surroundings with a different point of view and an interesting angle.
A girl is chased by a demon, so her friends desperately search for her.
Reminiscing about the past.
Thousands of refugee women from the middle east endure the uncertainty of their future and face various psychological and physiological problems due to stress in their life. Intisar Foundation is helping these women overcome their trauma through drama therapy.
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.
From his home in Lisbon, Lebanese-Palestinian writer Saleem Haddad reflects on memory, his family and the strangeness of the sea. He chases his grandmother’s fast-fading recollections of Palestine, where she lived many decades ago, and thinks about writing the homeland from a distance.
