Territory of Rose 2011
Set against the backdrop of the Israeli invasion of Lebanon, the film explores themes of land, honor, and survival through the story of a family caught between fleeing their homeland or submitting to life under occupation.
Set against the backdrop of the Israeli invasion of Lebanon, the film explores themes of land, honor, and survival through the story of a family caught between fleeing their homeland or submitting to life under occupation.
Worried about the deteriorating political situation in the West Bank, Aziza asks Tareq to leave Palestine and join the rest of his family in the US, leaving her and his grandmother alone in a state of war. Tareq takes sanctuary in Aziza’s garden, observing her seasonal way of living while confronting the difficult decision to leave.
Uncovering the story of the visionary agricultural orphanage the Farm School of Deir Amro in Palestine in the 1940s through a collage of archive film, first person testimony, official documents and personal photographs. Pointing towards hope and inspiration to the future, the film explores how the intertwining of land, community and family leave an indelible mark through history.
What does it mean to be sitting among your children and grandchildren, your wife and daughters around you, while the children play inside and outside a tent—and suddenly, a single missile weighing a ton or more falls upon you, erasing every detail of life and turning it into ash and blackened land? From here, our documentary film begins—to tell the story of life before the life of that family.
Following a shrimp seller from his dawn start at the Al Jubail market to his home in Safwa, this film explores his daily hustle and the personal stories that shaped his resilience and craft.
A man and a woman are discussing around a table, but the outside world is invited to be their interlocutor.
Angel, who works as a restroom attendant, makes us experience—through her perspective and behavior—the various discriminatory and humiliating situations she endures on a daily basis.
A wedding in Morocco is like a fairy tale from “1001 Nights.” For a day or two, the bride feels like a princess. The guest list must be long, the dresses magnificent, the jewelry precious, and the food exquisite. Such a celebration is planned well in advance. This is also the case for Yousra and Othman, who live in France but are getting married in the bride's hometown of Fez.
A psychological thriller, Rehan's Flowers follows Zain, a hacker and flower shop owner, who manipulates those around him with deadly precision. When Nora enters his life, Zain’s obsession leads to a deadly game of betrayal, lies, and murder—until a shocking twist reveals the true mastermind.
A visual artist from northern Gaza returns to her destroyed studio, searching for what remains of her artwork. She tells us about her paintings in an effort to hold her art exhibition in words.
Two young women from Gaza grow-up dreaming of a society in which their hopes and aspirations can find ground to grow. But they hit against a hard reality, crueler than they had ever imagined and end up feeling ‘outside the frame'.
A juxtaposition of video, photography, and paintings intercut with an artist working on a painting that is completed at the end of the film.
The documentary explores 10-year-old Farah’s life after the war, in which she saw her best friend Mariam lose her family to a bombing. Having spent her life besieged in Gaza, Farah ponders freeing her father’s pet birds from their own cage.
The dancing girl loses members of the dance group, during war and asylum she begins a journey to search for them, she manages to communicate with them spiritually.
A stand-up comedian in Gaza borrows from the daily struggles of survival to bring solace to a wounded audience in a refugee camp.
Zainab works in event planning under her boss, Murad, who heads a major luxury hotel chain. Murad is arrogant and boastful, harshly criticizing everyone around him, especially Zainab. Then, one day, to her shock and disbelief, he suddenly proposes marriage.
In a land we call home, a fish navigates the confines of a small glass tank, its eyes fixated on landscapes in the last lines in the glass. Trying to reach beyond, she swims slowly and then in a frenzy towards the illusion of open spaces, only to collide with the transparent barrier. As we venture through the fish´s perspective, the land undergoes surreal events until it becomes an abstracted from within. In this homeland, a fish imprisoned in a tank becomes a journey where the land dissolves, carrying within it the countless roots over centuries, undergoing cycles of death and rebirth in new forms.