Perpetual Recurrences (An Exercise in Film Programming)

Perpetual Recurrences (An Exercise in Film Programming) 2016

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Perpetual Recurrences is an exercise in programming films. Rather than curating a selection of entire films, this exercise curates a selection of scenes. Though they are montaged, the core of the exercise is to look at recurring patterns in Palestinian cinema and cinema on Palestine. The selected scenes gather around each other to form sequences. They do this dictated by repetitive occurrences be that location, political discourse, mise-en-scene, object and so on. From the classroom, to the militant in an open field delivering a speech with a tree somewhere in sight, to handheld camera shots in tight alleyways of refugee camps, to traveling shots from inside cars moving through streets, checkpoints and landscape, the scenes are plucked out from their heavily politicised filmic contexts, form and content wise. When placed in sequences they are screened to observe the political canopy of the moving image produced in and about Palestine over the past decades. The past era.”

2016

The Black Flour

The Black Flour 2001

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This film restores an era in the history of Syria, which is the post-independence stage, in order to tell a social story that aims to research human relations and the changes that occurred in rural society. And the plot of this film is not just events that were revealed by the author's memory, but rather impressions of certain events that remained in his imagination. Therefore, the dramatic events were woven as legends of the place, and this is what made the place a unique privacy and the events are closely related to it. It is a social story that talks about the destinies of a group of people that gives a complete and comprehensive picture and a wide panorama of the Syrian countryside at the end of the forties, trying to rely on the popular heritage by weaving relationships between the characters and their way of understanding the events.

2001

Zayana

Zayana 2019

2.70

The film deals with certain major women issues within Oman and Asia with a focus on Oman and India, and how an Omani conservative society treats it. It is a self-discovery journey and a mixture between drama and road-movie.

2019

Weekend

Weekend 2020

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A romantic comedy that begins with a young man who meets a beautiful girl and hopes that things will turn out in his favor To become his future wife, the duo decide to go on the weekend, to meet the girl's family And obtaining the blessing of marriage also, and during the meeting a big surprise occurs that threatens to undermine the relationship!

2020

The Farm

The Farm 1970

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the story is underway till the production start in few years

1970

Back to Babylon

Back to Babylon 2002

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Back in his home town of Babylon after a long exile, the Iraqi-born director Abbas Fahdel asks himself: "What has become of my friends? What has life here made of them? What would my life have been like if I hadn't chosen to build my destiny elsewhere?"

2002

Silent Cells

Silent Cells 2017

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What happens with women in Moroccan prisons? Walls of concrete and silence are hiding a taboo, which is difficult to remove. The director Mohamed Nabil did everything to tell the story of Moroccan women’s prison. After many difficulties and two years of waiting for a filming permit, he and his team were finally able to enter this secret world.

2017

The Weight Of The Shadow

The Weight Of The Shadow 2016

1

A nonagenarian couple seeks to know the fate of their eldest son kidnapped 37 years ago, during the "years of lead" in Morocco ...

2016

Mr. Purple

Mr. Purple 2019

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The film revolves around the idea of intolerance and how some people want to practice dictatorship by imposing their views on others.

2019

Red Blue Yellow

Red Blue Yellow 2013

1

Her journey that begins as a personal story, ends up being the story of other women who struggle to realize their dreams in a modern society.

2013

Albatros

Albatros 2021

10.00

Drama, inspired by real events, a feature film that sheds light on human misery and a corrupt system that pushes people toward illegal migration. From Africa to Europe, ruthless gangs organize trips into the unknown, promising them a better life. This film was shot with several amateur actors as well as former common law prisoners with the aim of reintegrating them into active life.

2021

Enjoy Your Food

Enjoy Your Food 1946

2.00

The final Mish Mish cartoon. Mixture of live action and animation. Mish Mish Effendi and his friend Fayyumi are seated at a restaurant and stuffing themselves, but since they don't have any money they leave without paying. Nightmares haunt their sleep that night. They are awoken the next morning by a loud knocking on their door: their creditors have come to collect.

1946

Fade

Fade 2018

1

A short man bullied by others. One night, a stray black cat attacks him to steal his food. The man chases it for revenge. He runs into the mysterious maze of the old Medina, where the most unexpected surprise awaits him.

2018