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.
More than 65 cinemas were closed thirty years ago, and more than 100 years in the film industry without films, this documentary is about the history of cinema in Sudan after recent successes in the independent film industry.
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.
In a short film at once personal and universal, the filmmaker explores the family dynamics that unfolded during lockdown. A touching, aesthetically inspired piece.
Moroccan feature film tells the story of a grown man postman and his funny situations with his mother .
Koukou, 20 years old, lives with his parents and his sister Jura in the mountains of Kabylia. He is out of sync with his village inhabitants, because of his style and his behaviour. During a village meeting, the wise men board decides to commit Koukou in a mental institution.
Ali, a 10 year old boy who is obsessed with ninja turtles, is on the road from Beirut to the south with his sisters. Upon arrival, the bombing starts and Ali realizes that he forgot his Sega console at home. This leads him to take the utmost risk and go back to get his game.
Kidnapped from her village in North Iraq by ISIS, just a few months after marrying Mohammed, a 25- year-old Yazidi woman named Ellan is released from captivity and returns home with a newborn child from the ISIS father.
The story tells about two friends one of them (Debo) got his father's car and went to the other to take him to having a special day with the 100 EGP. they have In their pockets, they went to the Ps centre to play "FIFA" as they used to but found it closed, so what they gonna do with all of this money?
30 years after the end of the Iran-Iraq war, 'Sami' who is bruised by the death of his wife on a mine site; is still struggling to de-mine his mine-polluted land.
Ten years after the failed revolution of Tahrir Square in Egypt, Al-Sisi’s regime continues to practice forced disappearance, imprisonment without trial, torture. Shaimaa and Ahmed, activists in exile, and Mohamed Lotfy, who still live in Cairo, continue to fight to denounce the current government and those who, masquerading behind declarations of façade, arm and finance it.
In this astutely played and beautifully shot drama by Isabelle Mecattaf, a look at an anxious day in a wealthy Beirut household becomes a moving rumination on the pain felt by parents of grown children seeking better lives far from home.
“There are different forms of resistance. For Um Ayman, resistance is to stay in her home and take care of it. This woman and her family’s life has been turned into a hell, full of fear and terror, as settlers have ferociously attacked her land, home and orchards. Her overwhelming concern is to protect her home, “If they take my house they would take the whole mountain because it is the last house remaining on the mountain.”
