Chtar 50 2015
Qmar, a young blind woman, is embroiled in an election fraud operation, she lets herself to be dragged into it until she decides to denounce it. The group of fraudsters does not hesitate to react violently and kidnap her.
Qmar, a young blind woman, is embroiled in an election fraud operation, she lets herself to be dragged into it until she decides to denounce it. The group of fraudsters does not hesitate to react violently and kidnap her.
The kidnapping of a little girl creates tension and suspicion in Algiers. Only Dounia, a brilliant psychiatrist, and Sami, a police inspector, can unearth the demons of the past.
A revolutionary militant is killed during the repression of May 1945. His son, who is unaware of the real circumstances of the murder, ends up being attached to the ideal for which his father died.
Nubi, a wealthy man with Communist ties, sets out to find his half-brother Gamal, who has been disowned for being gay, to let him inherit his father's fortune. In the process, Nubi is supposed to kill Gamal's stepmother Raifa, a suspected drug dealer, before she can kill his half-brother.
Twelve-year-old Noura dangles uncertainly in that difficult netherworld between childhood and adulthood. His growing libido has gotten him banned from the women's baths, where his mother took him when he was younger, but he's not yet old enough to participate in grown-up discussions with the men of his Tunisian village. Noura's only real friend is a troublemaker named Salih -- the village political outcast.
A teenager unwittingly reveals a terrible family secret to her new neighbors.
Director: Esam Al-Sayyed (Director) Mohamed Shaker (Director) Writer: Hamdy Abbas (Writer) Cast: Samy Maghawry Saeed Al Saleh Rawia Saleh Magdy Kamel George Sedhom Hala Fakher (more)
"Djazaïrouna", produced by the cinema service of the Provisional Government of the Algerian Republic (GPRA), is a montage film intended to inform the international community at the UN in 1959 on the objectives pursued by the Algerian resistance during the war of 'Algeria. Independence in Algeria (1954-1962). In 1959, Djamel-Eddine Chanderli and Mohammed Lakdar-Hamina produced Djazaïrouna (Our Algeria) from images taken by René Vautier and Doctor Pierre Chaulet. This film, completed a little later and will result in the film “The Voice of the People”. This documentary on the history of Algeria through a montage of current events, traces the political and military actions of the A.L.N, the demonstrations of December 1960, and the attack on a fortified French base on the border between Algeria and Tunisia.
Based on the epic, written on twelve 5000 year old clay tablets, this is the first film adaption of Gilgamesh
Haifa, nicknamed after the city of his love and hope, goes around and comes around in a Palestinian refugee camp. Although he is everybody's fool, there are many things that only he knows. He is closely related to the family of Abu Said, a former policeman who gains new hopes from the political developments. Oum Said, his wife, hangs her hope on the imminent release of their eldest son, Said, from jail. She tries to find him a bride to secure things for the future. Their youngest son, Siad, is cynical and rebellious. He refuses to believe things. Sabah, the 12 year old daughter is romancing the future and wants to find out what's in it for her. The different stories are interwoven into a very timely insight into the current Palestinian mind.
This film made by a Palestinian-Israeli collective shows the destruction of the occupied West Bank's Masafer Yatta by Israeli soldiers and the alliance which develops between the Palestinian activist Basel and Israeli journalist Yuval.
Dallas is a director forced to make a film to get out of a bad financial situation, he associates with a rich businessman who is a passionate film cinephile. During the shooting, the main actor dies. A crazy adventure full of twists and turns and humor ensues.
Egypt's most adored actor, George Fahmy is pressured to star in a film commissioned by the highest authorities. He reluctantly accepts the role and finds himself thrown into the inner circle of power. Like a moth drawn to the flame he begins an affair with the mysterious wife of the general overseeing the film.
The events revolve around a family trying to collect their inheritance. When they meet, strange situations occur and suspicion prevails, as each of them believes that there is someone who wants to seize the inheritance alone.
In times of war, a man wants to save his six children from starvation.
Long quest for a director specializing in commissioned films, who after a depression rediscovers his loved ones, his Casbah district, himself. Taken in hand, for a while, by his Islamist neighbor, it is above all the meeting with an old projectionist giving him a censored history of cinema and Algeria, which helps him to change, and to accept his own fantasies, embodied by Marilyn Monroe and the Andalusian.
When ISIS took their homes, families and city, one group of men fought to take it all back. Based on true events, this is the story of the Nineveh SWAT team, a renegade police unit who waged a guerrilla operation against ISIS in a desperate struggle to save their home city of Mosul.
Through dark comedy and eccentric characters, this web series offers a humorous view of the changes and cultural shifts in Saudi Arabia from 2011-2019.
Amid the conflicts and challenges during which the lives of five mothers intersect, teacher Maryam seeks to save the life of one of her students from the cruelty of her stepfather and the latter's neglect of her.
Set in 1980s London, a group of Arab students attempts to navigate life amid love, jealousy, and conspiracy in the city of fog.
Michael Palin attempts to copy the exploits of fictional character Phileas Fogg, by trying to travel around the world (without flying) in 80 days.
Abdullah is in his mid-thirties and still single. But to his mother Lateefa, he's practically a "spinster" — and she won’t rest until he’s married... before he misses the boat!
Eight darkly twisted tales tackling controversial topics that are made to show the thin line between good and evil, love and hate as well as truth and lies.
A humorous view of a changing Saudi Arabia, as the Masameer gang venture into a global media war, a long-standing tribal feud, and a health craze gone too far.
This black humor pan-Arabic anthology series is about love in general – and relationships in particular.
Bettany Hughes is on a mission to understand the secret behind the success of the Nabataeans. The glorious tombs of their cities, like Hegra in AlUla, Saudi Arabia, are proof of a rich kingdom.
In a dramatic context, the work deals with the story of the Saudi girl Eman, who is kidnapped, taken out of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, and forcibly married. She lives difficult moments of suffering, and her dream remains to return to her country.
In season three, Wadima and her neighbor Halima continue their mishaps and disagreements that do not stop, as each of them tries to pull a new prank on the other, while Faraj and his son Salem try to reconcile between them.
When suspicions grow around the death of their patriarch, an affluent family begin to peel back the truth as dark secrets come to light.
The events take place in the framework of social drama, about the selfish father (Asaad), who falls into the clutches of another woman, which is called (Farida), and forgets his first wife (Suad) and his children until they are displaced, and then time gathers them again after a period of separation, so that the father will pay the price of his ingrace and the cruelty of his heart for his children.
When Razan's British Pakistani fiance crashes her Saudi family's Eid celebrations, she attempts to convince them that he is a suitable match.
The hugely popular global franchise debuts in the Kingdom with a star-studded panel of judges in search of the very first Saudi Idol.
(Ahmed) returns from abroad after obtaining a doctorate in philosophy, disappointing his father, who wanted him to study business administration to take over the management of the institution he owns, and marries Noura and his cousin Najwa, and is accused of killing the latter, so he escapes to Egypt and falls prey to a drug gang.