The film tells about the beliefs of African tribes, about where the waters of the Nile come, from the moon or from the fountains of the sun. The film is a historical document, as it is the only documentary film that depicted the recent flood of the Nile before the construction of the High Dam from its sources to its estuary in the context of an epic story from the date of the building of the pyramids and the Temple of Abu Simbel until the construction of the dam.
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They are between 17 and 40 years old, coming from all over Egypt, young girls, wives, mothers, they dance for a living. They are the dancers of Cairo among the popular class. At the hairdresser, in the “hotel” for dancers or at home, at weddings, nightclubs, on and backstage, the film follows them and tries to show the depth of a struggle under the make-up and the dance. A reality far from the cliché of belly dancing.
In the district of Bab Jdid on the capital Tunis of Tunisia a Muslim country, two marginal young men Rzouga and Fanta squat an old Hamam and live a story between romance, drugs and violence. Rzouga who was able to improve big care about Fanta but also very big violence against his thin partner. However, Rzouga decides to leave Fanta but he desists after discovering the illness of his partner (hepatitis C) when he started to vomit blood.
Saken is an observational documentary directed by Sandra Madi set in Jordan that follows the friendship of Ibrahim, a Palestinian fedai who was injured in Lebanon while on duty before the 1982 israeli invasion on Lebanon, leading to his paralysis, and Walid an Egyptian man who has been Ibrahim's companion and caretaker for the past 15 years. Saken is a film about friendship and sacrifice, how some people’s destinies are linked and hard to be broken.
Zainab, who is extremely short sighted, has lost her glasses. Ali, a close childhood friend of hers feels that he must sacrifice the money he has collected and saved to buy Zainab a new pair of glasses.
The townspeople soon regretted a man who had been fired recently, until they had feelings of remorse for helping this miserable to find a new job.
A small conservative city young man with passion for filmmaking, enrolls in a photography contest to be admitted to a film school, his contest subject doesn't sit well with the locals.
The arrival as Syrian refugees in Norway turns into a new beginning with challenges for a Syrian man and his young son.
In this unique documentary, characters share their most private inner worlds and personal feelings, in a way that is entirely new within Saudi society.
A naive eastern farmer reevaluates his position towards his emotional, spiritual, and financial heritage when he deals with a dilemma brought to him from the metaphysical world.
A true story about a child who had diabetes but the father ignored his son's illness and neglected him ignorantly.
This film – neither performance nor fiction – is the third part of the artists’ attempt to revisit Anastas’s 2007 film, which sought to translate and put into play Friedrich Nietzsche’s “Thus Spoke Zarathustra” onto the contemporary Arab World.
Six Qataris pursue their goals by studying abroad to give back to their country which nurtured them.
Amal is a 12 year old girl who lives in the Morocco countryside. Serious and passionate pupil, her dream is to become a doctor.
A BLTNM SHORT FILM. This was shot in Ramallah, Mazra'a Gharbiyeh, Jerusalem and Kufr Yasif - Palestine.
