For over 4 decades now, Beirut has been running under crushing reconstruction policies, its inhabitants witnessing one displacement after the other. The explosion at the port of Beirut in August 2020 is a continuation of corrupt policies and a disastrous eviction process. Filmmaker Simon El Habre reflects on how illegal and arbitrary reconstruction schemes are continuing to change Beirut’s demography, leaving the city without its inhabitants.
Residents of Tripoli, Lebanon, reckon with the legacy of an abandoned architectural monstrosity.
SOWT is the voice of an oblivion culture that about to go lost.The documentary introduces us to a poet until recently has been listent to, in a forgotten culture in the south; with Sleymen Rihani... With his improvisation had developed against the instant case, with the humor he had sprinkled to the improvisation, with his instrument that became the partner of his voice, and most importantly Antioch Arab poet Sleymen Rihani who had sung classic Arabic songs with his strong throat, is the monument of the verbal culture. SOWT(Voice), that is prepared by the director Gökhan Evecen who blends the oral history studies with the documentary, is his second study after "Finnen" documentary which tells about Antioch Arabic poets.
A young man driven by a distant lover to return to his roots, searching for answers to his inner conflicts
A letter, delivered to the lawyer Amr Al-Hakim turns his life upside down and until his life returns to the way he had to start investigating seven cases
A simple film produced by a group of young artists. The idea of the film revolves around a romantic love story between a young man from a poor family and a girl from a rich family. The film is a romantic comedy. The struggle begins to affect true love between the two lovers.
TranStyX tells the story of the life of Tina, a trans woman, from her birth on January 14, 2011, in Tunis to her coma in London at the age of 27 on the operating table during gender reassignment surgery. Tina falls into a near-death experience and meets her guardian angel Stella who teaches her to detach herself from her previous life, reveals to her the secrets of human existence, rewinds the film of her tumultuous life as a transgender, and eventually submits her to the last judgment.
Short film deals with the relationship of a peasant couple from Majdal Shams in the occupied Golan Heights, through their journey towards their cherry-trees orchard adjacent to the Syrian-Israeli border, torn apart in between two fires; echoes of the constant shelling in Syrian and decades-old Israeli forced occupation.
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.
Bassem, a cinephile, is happy to attend the screening of the film Bamako as part of the 2006 Carthage Film Festival. The screening starts and Bassem discovers that the reels of the film are reversed: the film starts in the middle. No one seems to pay attention to it.
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.
Behind The Scenes produced in Sept 2021, It is a drama, social , romantic film. Dr Mona hard working University teacher, Mr. Rashid compete and envy Dr Mona on her super activities, There is a romantic relationship between two students Ahmad and Rana, Haifa likes Ahmad and envy Rana, Dr Mona will initiates a competition for her students, she struggle for the rights and the truth, There will be unexpected conspiracy at the end, The film send humanity messages through poems and lectures by students.
A message from an unknown person named "Haroon" raises anxiety and questions in Adham's mind.
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.
Unsent letters from an "un"abandoned home.
A series of dreams plague a woman in her early thirties in which she reflects on her relationships with her mother, father, and lover. Through her dreams, we see how her subconscious views these connections and the psychological traumas that they left behind.
Adaptation of Lassaad Ben Hassine's novel "Nostalgie". A young man over thirty, who holds higher degrees faces the problem of unemployment and the difficulty of life.
