Hichem holds a higher technician’s certificate in computer science. Originally from Redeyef, he illegally crossed the Mediterranean to Italian island Lampedusa in October 2017 in search of a better future far from his hometown where job opportunities are almost non-existent. But after a month, he was forcibly deported. A year later, Hichem went to meet his fellowflight attendants in different regions of Tunisia. The scars of this bitter experience are resurfacing.
Egyptian Film
Idir, a nomadic pastoralist from the tribe Ilemchan (the Ait Atta tribal confederation) was appointed by his tribe as Amghar n’Tuga (Lord of Pastures). In this film he tells us about the last nomads, their way of life, traditional pastoral systems, and the challenges threatening their survival.
After his date failed due to a visa card malfunction, Naeem goes to his sister's house to borrow some money, only to discover she's been robbed, causing an emotional roller-coaster that forces him to face his feelings of self-shame.
Kheireddine Pasha (1822-1890) was Ottoman-Tunisian statesman and reforme. First serving as Prime Minister of the Beylik of Tunis, he later achieved the high post of Grand Vizier of the Ottoman Empire. He was a pragmatic activist who reacted against poverty, and looked to European models for suggestions. He applied the Islamic concept of the public interest, to economic issues. He emphasized the central role of justice and security in economic development. He was a major advocate of modernization for Tunisia's political and economic systems.
A film about Damascus, an 11,000 years old city, the most ancient and precious of cities, set to the poetry of the world famous Palestinian poet Mahmoud Darwish.
The young boy Ali seeks the folk singer to record him with his father’s tape recorder. When the singer loses his voice after laryngeal surgery. Ali meets the singer with the last recording of his voice
Just like all Lebanese people, Alfred — a high-school teacher — tries to adapt to the new socio-political situation caused by the Lebanese October Revolution. Overwhelmed by the media coverage, he ends up joining his students on the field to protest for change.
The story surrounds a young boy called Obaid. He is confronted with a choice to live an easy life in this world or to struggle for reward in the hereafter. The story takes place during the tyrannical rule of King Narsis, who controls his people by encouraging them to worship idols and frightening them with the magic of Cinatas, his evil sorcerer. Cinatas chooses Obaid to be his student, someone who will assist him in his magic. At first, the boy is tempted by dreams of the power and the influence he will wield as the king's next sorcerer. But, soon after he starts to question his priorities. He begins talking to a righteous and a very holy man, who opens his mind to the true meaning of life.
The events revolve around the struggle between good and evil, not among humans but through a new perspective among animals inside a veterinary hospital.
A personal short film by Abdullah Habib.
Iheb, a young director at the start of his film career, decides to take to the streets and ask people what the idea of their films would be if they were directors. Following everyone's ideas, Iheb decides to make a film that brings together all the ideas of the people he has interviewed and shows it to the same people to get their opinion. He ends up alone in an empty movie theater in front of a white screen.
Out in the beautiful quiet of the desert, a man teaches his young sons how to track and hunt. Frustration leads to an apparently harmless struggle between the two brothers – but their carelessness brings about sudden disaster. Qatari filmmaker A.J. Al Thani’s film strikes just the right balance of calm and calamity, adolescence and adulthood, knowhow and panic to tell a seemingly simple story with a sense of gravity that will echo with anyone who has seen an innocent plan go horribly wrong.
On the Damascus Road in Lebanon's beautiful Bekaa Valley, an aging man with late-stage Parkinson's takes one last journey.
Pregnancy is the center of middle-eastern Muslim woman's life. Marrying, getting pregnant & raising kids are her reason for being; what would a dream be then? The film is an exploration of 4 ambitious women choices of work and\or family. It is a search of their hidden faces & of the factors effecting their choices & drives. It is a brief approach to the life and choices of four middle-eastern young women trying to find their individuality within their social, religious & political surroundings. A view of their discourses, whether they were trying to justify their compromises & surrender, or trying to break-out in what seems to be an absurd quest.
An experimental endeavor that explores the overlap of domestic and creative spaces, and their relationship to the female artist.
