Shapes of Normal Human Beings

Shapes of Normal Human Beings 2025

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Three friends take an 8-day road journey to make sense of Lebanon at this moment in time. Each detour in their journey makes for a spectacular experience of co-narration and listening in the face of uncertainty.

2025

Holes

Holes 2024

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Rakan and his wife Rim are looking for an apartment to rent instead of living with his aged mother. It seems they have found the right spot, except for the hole in the wall that looks as if someone bashed it with a hammer. Rakan seems strangely unengaged, however, barely speaking to his wife. Gradually, as we slip from present to past, we piece together the story that explains his barrage of unwanted calls, chance encounters with shady characters and outbreaks of violence. When his mother’s home is burgled and she is attacked, he is confronted by the person he least wants to see.

2024

August 15, Ramel Al Zareef School

August 15, Ramel Al Zareef School 2006

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This short video was shot in the urgency of the Israeli war against Lebanon in July 2006. It sheds light on how the Lebanese would go about their daily lives during and right after the war. Far from the bombastic frenzy of media broadcast, the tragedy of war is recorded with compassion, simplicity, and even humor.

2006

Emna

Emna 2024

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Daniel, a Swiss botanist, is plagued by his own suicidal intentions. Stressed by his environment and social pressure, he decides to retreat to his parents' mountain hut to escape his depression. At the same time, Zaineb and her eight-year-old daughter, after being dropped off by a human smuggler at the Italian-Swiss border, wander through the mountains trying to reach a Swiss town illegally.

2024

Prostrate and Draw Near

Prostrate and Draw Near 2024

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Based on true events, this award-winning animated short film portrays a unique spiritual moment in an almost empty Holy Mosque of Makkah during the COVID-19 lockdown, inspired by Nabila Abuljadayel’s original artwork.

2024

The Following

The Following 1970

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A film director, facing a creative block, follows a woman through her day, only to find himself entangled in a deeper mystery.

1970

Djambar

Djambar 1970

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A young artist reach out to a producer, switch to a dealer and kills his own producer and becomes a different person.

1970

La plage cachée

La plage cachée 1970

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An experimental found footage film revealing a couples' joyous discovery of a hidden beach, accidentally recorded on their cell phone. Who is being discovered by whom?

1970

To Those Who Don't Care

To Those Who Don't Care 1999

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A critical satirical play that deals with the state of the popular and social situation, the street movement, daily events, and is presented in the form of café talk, what is happening on the ground, how the simple citizen thinks, and how governments think in their own way.

1999

Citizen On Demand

Citizen On Demand 1997

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A critical satirical play that deals with the state of the popular and social situation, the street movement, daily events, and is presented in the form of café talk, what is happening on the ground, how the simple citizen thinks, and how governments think in their own way

1997

Bu Mansour Sneeze

Bu Mansour Sneeze 1984

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Bahraini Monodrama base on the novel of Anton Chekhov

1984

Visions of a dreamt sunset

Visions of a dreamt sunset 1970

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A travelogue on loss and healing, Visions of a dreamt sunset brings together images of landscapes in Tangier, archives, posters from 1950s American films, hands grasping film to save it from drowning, sounds of the water meeting a voice.

1970

their hands

their hands 1970

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As a little girl, I loved going to the Bled "Oueld Abdoun" with my father and mother. On the way, I wondered how I could capture the tact and feeling of the village women that enchanted me when I heard my father and mother going there. Today, I've decided to return to this village to make my first documentary film.

1970

Kilo 64

Kilo 64 2018

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An aspirational young man chose to change careers and start a farm at Kilo 64 on the Cairo-Alexandria Desert Road after graduating from the Faculty of Pharmacy. Driven by enthusiasm after the 2011 Egyptian revolution, Wael El-Shenawy, then 24 years old, was driven by passion to create an agricultural startup to improve society and boost the Egyptian economy. However, things do not go as planned.

2018