Populär Vun Palestinian Territory

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.

We are at the beginning of the sad period of violence that Algeria experienced in the 1990s. In a town in the interior of the country, Azzedine, a journalist by profession, is preparing an adaptation of Molière's play Tartuffe for the municipal theater. The newly elected mayor tries to stop him. Azzedine and his companions stick together and ignore the threat hanging over them. Will they succeed in fulfilling their dream?

A woman living in downtown Cairo tries to support her family by selling potato chips. Known as "Potatoes lady" she starts cooking from early morning until late at night in the city that never sleeps.

During the last weeks of Muammar al-Gaddafi's regime, Fritz Ofner embarked on a road trip through the Libya that is usually left out of the TV sensational pictures.

An documentary film talks about the massacre that took place in Shingal in 2013 at the hands of ISIS and talks about how to liberate Shingal and Mosul from the grip of the organization, and conveys the suffering of the Yazidis

In December 2015, a team of US- and Canadian-based ethnographers, comic artists, and a small crew of filmmakers took off to Cairo, Egypt, to work on the in-process graphic novel Lissa: Still Time.