My Dad 2022
Fatherhood as seen through the eyes of several Arab fathers coming from different cultural and educational backgrounds.
Fatherhood as seen through the eyes of several Arab fathers coming from different cultural and educational backgrounds.
After seeking emotional refuge within a secluded eroding hotel, a family is at crossroads between continuing to live in coexistence within dynamics of violence or choosing to break past their trauma.
The film reviews a human rights struggle between a man and a woman by raising three thorny marriage issues that no one knows the solution for it but Allah.
In December 2015, a team of US- and Canadian-based ethnographers, comic artists, and a small crew of filmmakers took off to Cairo, Egypt, to work on the in-process graphic novel Lissa: Still Time.
October 2011, nine months after the Tunisian Revolution of January 14, Tunisian women are running for the elections of the Constituent Assembly, some are from political parties, some are complete novices, some are activists of the early hours who joined parties to be part of the lists in the running and others are running as independents. They are in campaign, they criss-cross the Tunisian cities and villages, do meetings, door-to-door, enter the cafes "men", stick themselves their posters and distribute their leaflets. Who are they, what path has brought them to the political arena, what are their motivations and their weapons to lead such an unprecedented battle?
The Keshvar khale, a lonely old woman, is the only one living in an ancient village called Chasham in Northern Iran. She earns her living by picking medicinal plants and livestock her only cattle. Keshvar khale is one of the few living people weaving an amazing weave called gelij. A weave that is being forgotten and only remains in this village. Her house overlooks the hill, next to which she dug a vestibule to create a karchali (a traditional weaving room), where she weaves gelijs. Keshvar khale believes that Gelijs is a very old and a legendary fairy who lived in a cave near her village and taught the handicraft to the people living there.
Enya's journey trying to make it as a dancer is hindered as her behaviors drag her downhill.
A philosophical field trip from Cairo, along the Nile and into the desert in search for what light means as a religious concept in post-revolutionary Egypt.
The first Egyptian short film to discuss the issue of harassment in Egypt
Nazem al-Ghazali
Gnaoua music and tradition was a source of inspiration to various musicians such as Jimi Hendrix, Carlos Santana or Led Zeppelin as well as to the writers of the beat generation and to Jazz icons like Archie Shepp, Randy Weston or Peter Brötzmann. For the first time a real traditional night long Gnaoua Sufi Ritual (Lila) was allowed to be captured on video.
Faiza Ahmad
Shahyn is considered one of the first rappers in Egypt. After his father's death, he decided to stop rapping and travel to Dubai to escape music, then returned to his hometown of Alexandria, resuming his music career with a different identity.
Baligh Hamdy.