Meşhur Kimden Lebanon

Exploring the relationship between man and place by following the paths of six characters in contemporary Alexandria.

Mesteka, a seventy-year old Moslem widow, and Rehan, a sixty-seven year old Christian widower, are neighbours. Their busy children hardly ever visit them now. Mesteka and Rehan get used to monotony, loneliness, and isolation and fashion their lives accordingly,until tragedy gives way to comedy.

A study in human form.

Eat drink and sleep

On Photography, People and Modern Times is a two-channel video installation that tracks photographic records that Akram Zaatari researched and collected for the Arab Image Foundation between 1998 and 2000. It is a meditation on the two lives of photographs: once in the hands of the people who cherished them, and then in an environment that secures their preservation. Cutting across temporal and geographic borders, the film probes the nature of humans’ relationships with photographs and highlights the limits of standard preservation.

The film depicts the last days of eastern Aleppo’s siege. Just before its fall, Milad Amin, residing in Beirut, follows up with his friend Ghith, an activist and photographer, who like so many other civilians still remains in the besieged city. Following Ghith via his camera through the ruins of the city, we hear the two friends talk about people’s situations while waiting for their fate amidst the fighting parties. The film is an intimate and personal recording of civilians’ sufferings during this time of siege, hunger, and war – and a recording of both the relationship of activists brought together during the civil movements and of the geographic distances that separate them due to violence, bombing, and killing.

Bouchra Khalili is interested in the Mediterranean as a space of nomadism and itinerancy. Her work renders it in its subjective aspect by documenting the realities and narratives of migration, offering an alternative mapping based on the personal testimony of clandestine migrations. Mapping Journeys is a series of documentary works telling eight stories. Each presents a static shot of a map of the territory concerned, on which the traveller's hand sketches his or her journey. The accompanying voice has no face, as clandestinity requires: testimony to the invisibility of those at home nowhere and to the loss of identity this brings.

A vision of a revolutionary journey... A fragment of an image... A vision of a culture of resistance in a difficult revolutionary process leading to reflection.

The life of St. Marina AKA Marinus (Marinos)

Somewhere, amid a tangle of borders, a refugee camp. People trapped in a situation that becomes more absurd every day, trying to live a human existence. We don't see their faces. We don't see the places they talk about. However, we are drawn very close to their intimate experience of the world as we follow, line by line, the maps they are drawing to represent the complexity of the spaces around them.

A MEMORY IN KHAKI is a cry out for that which is embattled inside the spirits of individuals who lived under the oppressive Syrian regime. The auteur's personal narrative is interwoven with those of other Syrian characters who were forced, because of their political beliefs, to leave the country before or after the revolution. The film sheds light on years of silence, fear and terror, and it dives into the stories, which were behind the eruption of Syria’s society and the start of its revolution. It is a Syrian account, which, by laying out the past, tells the story of the future.

She loved mysteries so much that she became one, she used words to say nothing at all, and silence to explain everything, and she smiled her last smile, to so much that had been possible...

A short film by Nadine Khan

This shocking and spectacular short film combines poetry, dance, and film to call attention to the human rights violations in Syria, particularly the war’s effect on women. Impossible to ignore, the stunning cinematography and talented performances demonstrate the economic greed and extortion that accompanies the unending conflict in the Middle East, to which the world turns a blind eye.

A tormented young man constructs an ingenious devise to rescue his father from Abu Ghraib prison. What he finds there is far from his expectations, revealing the mistreatment and torture of prisoners. His hopes and dreams for a brighter future are dashed upon finding his father.

A drama plot about a wife trying to balance her husband's love towards their adopted child (sin child of the wife) and their natural child.