The Art of Moving

The Art of Moving 2016

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Daya Al-Taseh is an anti-IS satirical web series created by a group of Syrian video activists. They produce the episodes from their base in Gaziantep, Turkey. After receiving threats from IS supporters they leave to Istanbul with the aim to broadcast an improved topical-comedy show for Syrian TV. But obstacles keep arising in an already unstable situation, pressuring the group’s work and friendships. They are forced to make decisions about the future of their activism and the possibility of stable life in Istanbul, or elsewhere.

2016

Eyal Harifa

Eyal Harifa 2015

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He works as a football coach at Dokki Sports Club but does not succeed in making any significant achievements in his career, which makes Habashi not agree to marry his daughter Osha (Bossi), but he has a last chance .

2015

The Children of Ibdaa: To Create Something Out of Nothing

The Children of Ibdaa: To Create Something Out of Nothing 2003

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The Children of Ibdaa: To Create Something Out of Nothing is a 30-minute documentary about a Palestinian children's dance troupe from Dheisheh refugee camp in the West Bank. The children use their performance to express the history, struggle, and aspirations of the Palestinian people, specifically the right to return to their homeland.

2003

Suriya al-halwa

Suriya al-halwa 2014

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A parable on the Syrian present by mixing footage of the protests in Syria and a circus performance that involves a lion and goes awry with a nod to Fellini’s cinema.

2014

Noor

Noor 1970

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In a working class suburb of Cairo, Egypt, where lives are intertwined and everybody knows each other's business, thirteen year old Fingo wants to hang lights in his street for Ramadan. Many in his neighborhood try to dissuade him, or say it's not possible. This makes him more determined, but he only has two days, and the obstacles he faces seem insurmountable.

1970

The Visit

The Visit 2015

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As a World Bank team visits an Egyptian village to investigate the transformation in agricultural management system, a TV presenter prepares a couple of episodes on the life of village women and a group of students visit a museum in Cairo with artificial figures that are supposed to resemble the life of Egyptian farmer.

2015

Whispers

Whispers 1999

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Caught between chasing his past and accepting his impending end, a man follows his childhood memories through the dark alleyways and desolate cemeteries of Boujad, Morocco.

1999

Cousin

Cousin 2001

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'Ibn al-'Amm' shed light on the eighteen years Riyad al-Turk spent as a political prisoner under Hafez al-Assad, before his son Bashar al-Assad imprisoned him for two years at the beginning of his reign.

2001

Street of Death

Street of Death 2017

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On the outskirts of the city, right by the water, lies an arterial road that leads to Beirut’s international airport. Most of the houses standing there are illegal constructions, quickly erected for a life alongside the road. Karam Ghossein, who also works as a cameraman for other video artists from Lebanon, combines pictures from a commissioned production he shot on the occasion of a friend’s wedding in 2004 with street impressions from the present day. Past events can’t be told apart from the observations of today: a kaleidoscope of stories that take place on this highway.

2017

جزيرة الأقباط

جزيرة الأقباط 1970

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Although more than 3 years passed since the Egyptian Revolution , But Egyptian Copts still suffered from discrimination and Sectarianism.

1970

Iraqi Voices: The Actor

Iraqi Voices: The Actor 2015

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Iraqi Voices is an ongoing collaborative mentorship program that gives Iraqis in Minnesota support and training to transform their stories into high-quality documentary video shorts. THE ACTOR: An Iraqi actor discusses the Friday demonstrations in Baghdad.

2015

Al Khataia

Al Khataia 1962

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A drama plot about a wife trying to balance her husband's love towards their adopted child (sin child of the wife) and their natural child.

1962

300 Miles

300 Miles 2016

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Orwa Al Mokdad starts a journey from Daraa, southern Syria, to Aleppo, northern Syria, to understand the reasons that have shattered the whole Arab region over the country’s history and the distance that has grown for the past five years, since the beginning of the Syrian war. A distance that has split the region and its inhabitants into North and South.

2016

Sayd al-Asari

Sayd al-Asari 1990

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The daily life of young child Ali El-Sayed and his family, as they struggle to make a living on the shores of Lake Manzala.

1990

The Devil's Treasure

The Devil's Treasure 1970

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A plowman finds a treasure in his field but when looters rob him of his find, his son Farès starts chasing after them.

1970