Tsendo Hisa Twamaya

Tsendo Hisa Twamaya 2019

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Casablanca! A group of young Comorians trapped in despair come together. They plan joint projects and dream of a bright future for their country. However, this common will is threatened by attempts of seduction of which Moina Hindru, the initiator of the movement, is the object. All the boys love him. Will she choose love or fight for a better tomorrow?

2019

غیرمنتظره

غیرمنتظره 1970

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Story about a young model who always thinks about his beauty is his strong point in his life and this idea takes him to the point where many problems and incidents arise for him

1970

Ghurbal

Ghurbal 2005

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This film examines the Egyptian rural craft of making a sieve called ghurbal (from the Arabic ghurbal meaning “to winnow” which is used to both “winnow” babies on their seventh day of life and to winnow grains for making ceremonial dishes, particularly kouskousi. Embedded in this material culture artifact are layered meanings of creative regeneration of the cosmic and human worlds. We visually follow the material process from tree log cutting to making the tara (ghurbal frame), to ghurbal crafting, through the voice and image of two key persons: Na’ima, the craftswoman and owner of the frame shop, and Hoksha, the rural ghurbal craftsman. The ethnographer/filmmaker engages them to speak and we are drawn into their lives by their stories as we view self-confident mastery of their craft. While Hoksha relates how he has kept this child from his father, we see his son next to him making a modern flour sieve, having never learned the family tradition.

2005

El Arena

El Arena 2022

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Unfolding against the backdrop of a turbulent political climate, the finest rappers in the Arab-speaking world gather in Beirut, hoping to be crowned King of the Battle.

2022