Two bold women share their exciting stories that will challenge your thoughts about the restrictions of women at the time in the King Mariout region, one of the oldest Bedouin areas in the Arab world. The film narrates what remains of their stories and memories, the fuel for their present. Their old songs with cheerful meanings and tattoos of a static nature symbolize the last generation of Bedouins free of any manifestations of modern technology.
"In March 2011, I was 13 years old and the Syrian revolution began in my town, Deraa. My uncles, whom I loved so much, supported the regime of Bashar Al-Assad. My family was falling apart." (Diala Al Hindaoui)
From JadaL's performance in Tunisia 22 Jan 2023 @ Carthage music days festival
In this exclusive documentary BBC News Arabic investigates cases of alleged human rights abuses in Bahrain that have taken place against the backdrop of the Formula 1 Grand Prix. Speaking on camera for the first time, one woman tells the BBC she was tortured and raped in a security complex after protesting against the Grand Prix in 2017. The Bahraini government disputes her claims. The documentary also investigates whether Britain and the US have been complicit in the regimes alleged human rights abuses by providing training and funding to Bahrain’s security forces. A warning that there are some descriptions of sexual violence in this report.
The artist spent 24 hours with each of four women—Rogine, Waad, Hanin, and Zeina—in the cities where they now live: Zutphen, Oslo, Washington DC, and Sharjah respectively. All four of them cannot live anymore in their countries of origin, Syria and Lebanon. Together, they share a moment of cooking, rolling on the floors of their new cities, talking about life, nothing and everything, their exile and their continuous aims. This screening presents the chapters featuring Rogine and Waad.
In 2021, radioactive sand resulting from French nuclear bombs travelled in the winds all the way from the Algerian Sahara back to France. The bombs had been detonated in Algeria back in the 1960s. These returning winds were a reminder that the environmental legacies of colonialism cannot be forgotten or contained; it also raised the more pertinent question of how people live with the afterlife of toxic colonialism. ‘And still, it remains’ spends time with the residents of a village in the Hoggar Mountains of Algeria who live surrounded by ancient rock art and the legacy of France’s nuclear bombs.
The triptych video installation Une Odyssée works to the rhythm of the music of Laurent Durupt (piano, percussion), the poem written and read by Touda Bouanani, and the performance of the guest artists.
The Devil’s Recipe is a collaboration between Andrea Nones-Kobiakov and I - a playful view of the nonsensicality within political discourses. Mundane everyday objects, actions, ingredients, and utterances emphasize the redundant and useless nature of propagandistic speeches. The reality in the spoken words is mixed to create new fictions, proverbs, idioms, and linguistic manipulations highlighting the absurd illusions of power and stability we regularly are made to believe.
A short thriller film. My first ever short film, made it at the age of 14.
Instead of bringing his recently deceased friend back to life, Khalid makes a grave mistake and awakens everyone in the morgue. However, Khalid faces a problem: all those who have been awakened will return to death after a while, except for one person. He leaves the matter to a vote among all the deceased. So, who will convince everyone that they are the most deserving to come back?
It talks about the leader of the Syrian revolution against the French occupation, and his life path in the struggle with his fellow Syrian revolutionaries, leading to its liberation. The film monitors environmental details of Sultan Pasha al-Atrash and some of the people around him.
A film in tachelhit about Anir and Rabia who have been in a relationship for a long time. After they got married things got worse for Rabia.
From its troubling appearance after nightfall, to the inhabitants all busying themselves at daybreak, Mohamed films the interior of his family home. A strange climate then establishes itself, particularly around the father, a central element in family life, as he moves about on his wheelchair, like some kind of worrying Custodian of the Premises. American writer H.P Lovecraft said : "Fear is the strongest and oldest emotion known to man"... And the film is set inside an Egyptian house... Is there a link here?
Story of 3 young women moving from there village to the capital Cairo
Saida goes every day after school to the sea to bring in an old bucket what her father was able to fish. Deaf and dumb, she expresses her feelings through drawing, her father can't make ends meet, on the taking of the song "Lighara" by the group "Jil Jilala", he ends up making an irreversible decision...
