1001 Days 2017
'1001 Days' tells the untold story of Sheherezade, the heroic female storyteller who saved her female townsfolk from the murderous fury of their king.
'1001 Days' tells the untold story of Sheherezade, the heroic female storyteller who saved her female townsfolk from the murderous fury of their king.
Snippet of the life of a young boy in Yemen.
A short film that recounts the struggle of Yemenis stranded and displaced outside of Yemen as a result of the ongoing war.
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 The film is a historical document, as it is the only documentary film that depicted the recent flood of the Nile before the construction of the High Dam from its sources to its estuary in the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.
70 years ago, in Ksour Essaf, central Tunisia, a young woman escaped from her husband's house and, for the one and only time in her life, raised up against Maktoub. Nowadays, in the very same place, Sabrine is about to get married.
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.
"Dabke Time" explores the background of the Dabke dance and specifically the Lebanese Dabke. Flimmaker Roshdi Alkadri interviews several subjects across two different villages in Lebanon to find out more about this popular dance
Imagine that your father is a Palestinian Arab, and he had fought against Franco in the Spanish Civil War. Imagine that you have siblings, and you cannot talk to them because you do not speak the same language. Imagine that you have a family, but you were raised without parents... The film reveals the extraordinary story of a Palestinian family.
After finding a note that makes you kill people, Dali try to change the world with this note putting himself in danger and risking his own life . regarding the choices of the spectator , you will be able to decide the fate of Dali and the whole country. Dali will face a lot of dangers including the media propaganda and specially his best friend and room ate Ahmad which is only person who knows about the fact that Dali is the owner of the notebook .
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.
History is to be told, and its stories unfold into a territory, where the archeology of times owes its survival to fiction.
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.
Homs, the hero of the story, its old city wrote the story of Youssef and Yara in their search only for life, nothing but life, during the siege that lasted for a hundred and a few days. They did not choose to stay, did not choose the war, they fled from death so it searched for them.