Sisters of The Rotation 2022
At Sisters of the Rotation’s convent, the Earth doesn’t spin by itself.
At Sisters of the Rotation’s convent, the Earth doesn’t spin by itself.
In 1929, Roger Salardenne wrote Le culte de la nudité based on nudist experiments in Weimar Germany. Accompanied by a troop of completely naked actors in the confined space of a house, Selim Mourad offers a free adaptation of this text.
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.
“Diaries from Between, West Bank” documents the landscape of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict in the West Bank in video. The narrative builds its structure from the geography of the region, from Jerusalem to the Palestinian Territories and the Jordan Valley. It explores the manifold ways of seeing both man’s control over a specific territory, and also man’s control over the people that inhabit it.
Ana men Chile means “I am from Chile” in Arabic, and introduces the paradox of contemporary national identity, particularly in the case of the artist who is a Jewish / Palestinian descent but also a Chilean citizen. This situation allows the author to demonstrate the conflict from a broad tour of the occupied territory, with the freedom of being a foreigner. Above you can hear Palestinian descendants from Chile – home to the largest Palestinian community living outside the Middle East – who from their own subjectivity reflect on the future of Palestine, as well as on their own memories.
Ramzi is a young Tunisian with Gilles de la Tourette syndrome. His only remedy is cannabis, a prohibited substance in Tunisia. He fights for the right to a treatment license, and discovers the world of theatre.
Saudi short documentary about the evacuation of a neighbourhood.
A girl finds herself stuck in a loop of her own making as she struggles to define and mend her relationship.
In the midst of a socio-economic crisis, we follow the process of young Tunisian artists trying to organize alternative events in unusual locations and discover the underground scene and to be part of the simulation.
A documentary film on the history of the political struggle in Kuwait, narrated by Dr. Ahmed Al-Khatib.
12 musicians from the 11 countries along the Nile use music as a model to collaborate across borders. On a tour of the United States, their message of unity is put to the test.
Our daily life is full of voices that most of us do not hear because of repetition, As if they no longer exist. Sounds of car bug, car radio sound, traffic jerky voice, children’s voice, bird sounds that read every morning to inform us from the beginning of the day. But in Aleppo, people were accustomed to the sounds of war, rockets, and mortars, To the sound of the mother’s cries and the cry of the fathers, Break the glass and destroy the houses. Now the war is over and everything is drowned in silence and wind. Silence is as eternal as is full of fear and loneliness. Full of stories buried under the rubble. Aleppo: The silence of the War film depicting this fragile silence after the war.The silence from years of war.A silence that does not mean peace, nor the meaning of war!
The film follows physician Dr. Hamza al-Khatib and nurse Um Ibrahim in al-Quds Hospital, by then the last operational one in besieged East Aleppo, through the lenses of photographer Abd Alkader Habak. Amidst the misery and death, they, with other main characters managed to find moments of love, fun and laughter. With them we live the time of despair but also that of hope. Until the moment comes where they were all forced to leave with no return, for now at least.
Two names, two faces and one story: a story that is told behind the eyes of a person who is looking to be free but not lonely.
Upon turning 16, Sarah receives flowers from her mother, but not the kind she wants. This motivates her to go searching for a flower nursery located in historic Cairo to seek out the roses she has been desiring all her life.
According to the myth, when Zeus created humans, they had four hands, four legs and two heads. Later and because of their noise, he decided to punish them. Thus, he split them by a thunder bolt and since then each has been looking for their other half.
Text messages to a boyfriend in Roanne, everyday conversation with parents in Beirut, the life in Copenhagen. A love letter painted with isolation of living in a foreign land and the intimate time spent together with the director's loved ones.
Sulaiman, a high-school student, is accused of cheating during an Arabic exam and he has to convince the vice-principal that he wasn’t and get his full grade instead of a zero. His journey isn’t as easy as it seems.