My Reason for Being

My Reason for Being 2025

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An intimate and moving short documentary where a young Franco-Lebanese director has a heartfelt exchange with her mother, Kawssar, as they spend time together in her late grandmother's house. In a space now filled with nostalgia and emptiness, Kawssar recounts how Lebanon's civil war drove her into exile and how she had to cope with the loss of family members, all the while poring over her mother's diaries. A transgenerational story, Mon Raison d'Être explores grief, loneliness and motherhood, lifting the veil on things left unsaid. A delicate journey of a filmmaker and her mother, struggling within their own relationship and ultimately trying to heal together.

2025

No Politics At the Dining Table

No Politics At the Dining Table 2025

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Installation video "No Politics At the Dining Table" emerges as a visual response to a literary text and a question posed by Palestinian writer Mourid Barghouti. Through a semiotic, phenomenological lens the work explores the dining table as a symbolic site of power, control, and negotiation- acting as a microcosm of family dynamic and a metaphor for global power structures.

2025

Every Day, Every Day

Every Day, Every Day 2013

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A diary documenting the life of a Syrian family in times when the revolution shifts into a civil war, and the dramatic circumstances they face when the oldest son is called to join the state army.

2013

Offering

Offering 2011

4.00

Maher, seven years old, walks around the neighbourhood and watches other children playing with their sheep. He is the only child not to have one and his friend laughs at him… He takes refuge in his mother's arms and she is also frustrated in the face of her neighbours and complains to her husband. But how can you find a sheep when you don't have enough money ?

2011

Gum

Gum 2024

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Saad is in kindergarten, a sweet and innocent child. When Dania joins his class, he falls in love at first sight, discovering feelings he didn’t know it was possible to have. Love turns Saad’s little life upside down. He can't concentrate, eat, or do any of his regular day-to-day activities. He tries to understand why this is happening, asking his father about what these feelings mean, but the response doesn’t answer any of his questions. Finally, he decides to give his beloved his most prized possession: his chewing gum. Is this what love is all about?

2024

Hasan Marih

Hasan Marih 1970

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A Hasan Marih movie - A disobedient son

1970

Sons of the graveyard

Sons of the graveyard 2019

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Wadi Al-Salam in Najaf, Iraq, is the world's largest cemetery, with over 5 million graves. Its hereditary undertakers share their stories.

2019

Familiar Ghosts

Familiar Ghosts 1970

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During the quarantine period at the beginning of the pandemic, "Yasser" deals with his anxiety and questions by reconsidering his surroundings

1970

The Throwing of Fire

The Throwing of Fire 1973

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Hussain Shariff's first film, a documentary centred on a traditional fertility rite of the Ingessana people in the southern Blue Nile State, celebrating ashes, the sun and good harvests.

1973

Gaza's First Photographer Kegham Djeghlian

Gaza's First Photographer Kegham Djeghlian 2021

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Kegham Djeghlian, an Armenian photographer who moved from Jerusalem to Gaza in 1945, opened his first photography studio there, called "Kegham Studio". We get to know him and Gaza from his diverse archive, his family, his students, and photography experts, to discover the city through his free lens for the first time and with a perspective other than that of the British occupation.

2021

A Captive Childhood

A Captive Childhood 2013

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A Captive Childhood is a documentary film that focuses on the holding of Jerusalemite children captive in their homes at the hands of the Israeli occupation, depriving them of their freedom.

2013

An Exam Night

An Exam Night 2016

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Fahd has an exam in biology, so what problem will Fahd face during his study?

2016

Farasan Boat: 128 KM Away from Anchorage

Farasan Boat: 128 KM Away from Anchorage 2024

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In 2016, a group of young men headed out on a short fishing trip around Farasan Island, off the coast from Jazan. Intending to be away for only an hour, they were soon driven off course in thick fog, heading unknowingly towards the war-torn Yemeni border. As they realized where they were and tried to head back, their boat ran out of fuel. For 90 hours, they drifted without food or water, constantly at risk from passing pirates or being shot from the shore. There were many moments when they despaired of surviving; then came a glimmer of hope.

2024