Al-Adashari is a nickname he got because he has six toes on his right foot, making eleven toes on his feet. He is one of the residents of Haret El Dabaa who has always hated his bad manners, and they knew a lot about his past in theft.
Hany Shenouda and his band
Omar Khorshid And His Group .. live in Australia
Mohamed Fawzy, 1957
A playful and moving portrait of some women in Morocco. Evoking reality television, home video, and ethnographic film, its visual language is at once intimate and whimsical, with the director’s digital manipulations...amplifying...her subjects’ self-presentations.
The film follows the journey of Alex, an Ultras member, in his hometown Sfax, Tunisia, while visually representing his inner thoughts, feelings, frustrations and ideas to showcase the impact and influence of the Ultras movement on the city's urban scene and culture.
After the death of his father, Mahmoud Abu Bakr sets out on a journey to penetrate into diabetes, in which he discovers the most important symptoms and risks facing the patient, in addition to their psychological state.
Closed cinemas. Primarily visually approached. Not spectacularly, but quietly and carefully. The symbolism of closed, derelict cinemas is strong. Their demise wasn't for economic, but for political and religious reasons. A woman tells the story of her cinema.
The pitter-patter of rainfall on the gutters, the smell of wet mud, the joy in familiar games, sharing food in Ramadan, cooking on the firewood, and every happy milestone —this old neighborhood will always live in the hearts of its inhabitants. Alrufea is a documentary that showcases and highlights the intimacy this neighborhood community holds.
Through the words of a grandmother, the memories of her sewing machine, the children’s songs, and the drawings on the wall, the filmmaker reenacts an ode where she becomes her child self and her grandmother at the same time. The foremothers’ songs and the colorful fabrics weave the stories of distance, longing, and loss.
Surrounded by her loving family on her fifth birthday, a sudden event occurs that will shape Mira’s life forever. Peek-A-Boom is a story of splitting paths and unexpected circumstances.
Thousands of refugee women from the middle east endure the uncertainty of their future and face various psychological and physiological problems due to stress in their life. Intisar Foundation is helping these women overcome their trauma through drama therapy.
Aser is a young man who studied technology in America and settled there. After his father dies in his country, during the funeral ceremony, he discovers some information that his father left him before his death. The young man is sure that he was killed and not of a heart attack as the doctors told him. Many battles and events full of suspense and mystery, and countless surprises, especially those related to his sister.
Filmmaker Sobhi al-Zobaidi lives in Ramallah with his wife and baby daughter. ‘Kalandia’ is the checkpoint the family has to cross, whenever they want to get to Jerusalem. The film shows the humiliation Palestinians suffer there every single day.
From his home in Lisbon, Lebanese-Palestinian writer Saleem Haddad reflects on memory, his family and the strangeness of the sea. He chases his grandmother’s fast-fading recollections of Palestine, where she lived many decades ago, and thinks about writing the homeland from a distance.
The Hadhramaut region in the south east of Yemen is well known for its mud brick architecture. Throughout the centuries, the population has developed very sophisticated building techniques and created a unique architectural environment. Spectacular structures such as ten-story mud brick tower houses rise up from the valley's floor. In interviews throughout the documentary, the masons describe their working techniques and the challenges they face with the introduction of new, imported building materials. The Architecture of Mud documents the vernacular architecture, the building craft and the society they belong to.
A short documentary about the life and true story of Laila Abdulaziz, a pioneer of music in the Arabian Gulf and staple of Kuwaiti history who had a vision for the future that no one was ready for, not even herself.
