A rich land economically and culturally, Algeria fluctuates today between despair and the hope of a new beginning. Then there is a series of suicides at the heart of society. The coast and the sea. Images flow into and over each other poetically like a Fata Morgana.
The second part of the triptych “Regard sur le cinéma musical arabe” (a look at Arab musical cinema), Samia forever pays a resounding tribute to the woman who, for more than twenty years, was the “Marilyn Monroe” of Egyptian musicals. Between film extracts, archives and testimonies, the film traces the life of Samia Gamal (1924-1994) who, by becoming a cinema legend, established herself as one of the icons of Oriental dance. “Perhaps dance was innate in me”, she said. And so it had to be to dedicate one’s life to that art as, while Oriental dance (“raqs al-sharqui”) is a cultural phenomenon as old as it is indisputable, Egyptian society has always stigmatised its dancers.
The role of the events of the film about Boudi, the first Egyptian sumo wrestler to reach a world Sumo Professionals in Japan. Stars: Magda Youssef, Tarek Shaalan, Alaa Shaalan Duration: 0 hours 57 minutes
Experimental film exploring existential reflections, and joy amidst a life in limbo.
Fadma, 75, tells her life story including being recruited as a sex worker for the French army aged 20, and her views on love, parenthood, and destiny.
A comedic comic play about marriage and wives in a comic framework
Sherbet is a teacher in the Halawa market, fighting to preserve her interests and display at the same time, which makes her look like men to most people despite her tyrannical femininity that makes her covetous to many, and with Hassan, the strong and chivalrous young man, appears on the scene, Sherbet’s life is turned upside down, where she feels for the first time that she needs a husband who shares her troubles Life and its pleasures.
Between Volubilis and Meknès, the sanctuary of Moulay Idriss, is the scene of one of the most important pilgrimages in Morocco. Sufi brotherhoods and simple pilgrims parade for 8 days on ecstatic rhythms.
The movie tells different stories of different married couples
In the city, some lead a privileged life, whilst others are mere labour. There are those who live a wretched existence, but at least are free to live a dog's life in the Egyptian capital.
a movie compiling never before seen film footage of the city of Jeddah, taken with Naamani's personal 16mm camera between 1954 and 1968. The rare collection of footage documents the history of urban transformations that the city went through during the fifties and sixties.
