The Charcoal Maker 1973
Film describes the miserable existence of a charcoal-burner who is barely able to feed his family. His search for work in town ends in failure and he is forced to return to his village.
Film describes the miserable existence of a charcoal-burner who is barely able to feed his family. His search for work in town ends in failure and he is forced to return to his village.
The first Sultan of Egypt and Syria leads the Muslim military campaign against the invading Christians from Europe during the Third Crusade.
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.
Years have passed since the brothers have separated in their different ways of life. But one day, a ghost from the past returns to cast a shadow over the sons of Rizk, forcing them to return to a life of crime and theft once again in order to save themselves, in a fateful operation that is the largest, most dangerous, and most important in the history of the sons of Rizk.
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.
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.
Two cousins, both from a middle-class background, finally see their dream come true when their inheritance is rightfully returned to them following their uncle’s death. Soon after, and to their shock, they discover that the inheritance is in the form of illegal goods. To liquidate these goods, they create an elaborate mobile game to sell them through it. They call this game… “Siko Siko”. The cousins enjoy a brief moment of spectacular success before a mob boss appears in their lives, claiming to be the real owner of the goods!
Dr. Raafat faces challenges and difficulties in raising his three daughters, Fawzia (Sanaa Younis), Soso (Shreihan) and Nadia (Ijlal Zaki).
Trump’s declarations concerning Israel and a Palestinian immigrant’s uncle’s medical diagnosis conspire to throw the latter into crisis, push him into provocative encounters, and jeopardize his relationship.
Adam is allergic to love, but somehow ends up engaged to both his boss's daughter and his first love. Now he must try to keep his double life a secret.
Yassin (Hisham Magdy) and Sara (Hana El Zahid) meet and find themselves in romantic, comedic situations. Omnia (Mai Omar) and Tarek (Ahmed Saadany), the most famous couple on social media, share with us their real story. Amal (Asmaa Galal) and Mohamed (Mohamed Sharnoubi) discover the betrayal of the love of his life. Yasra (Huda El Mufti) embarks on a crazy adventure against her fiancé (Mohamed Salam). What will these hours do in the lives of our heroes?
In a high school plagued by five unruly students who have failed to graduate for over a decade, the principal hires a new teacher in a last-ditch effort to restore order. Effat, the newly appointed instructor, takes on the challenge with hopes of reforming the troublemakers into model students.
After learning to protect a truce among a community of animals, three young goats embark on an adventurous journey to keep a ceasefire intact throughout their society.
In what could be considered a follow up to Al Qasimi’s 2020 work Mother of Fire, she once again invokes the figure of the jinn (spirits in Islamic mythology) to explore the ghosts of British imperialism in the UAE. As its spectre lingers on the horizon, two teenage girls seek to liberate a pirate damned to spend purgatory on a site now being developed into a hotel. Originally commissioned for Sharjah Biennial 15: Thinking Historically in the Present, Al Qasimi entangles historical narratives with contemporary notions of piracy. In examining how it has been historically and culturally represented, new perspectives of old mythographies come into focus. (Myriam Mouflih)
Professor Ramadan is a feared and well respected teacher in a village, forced to take a job in the city teaching at a private school. He soon realizes that most of his students are infatuated with a famous singer whom he tries to ban all mention of within the school, only to fall in love with her himself.
A social drama about four marginalized prostitutes in Marrakech and their complex relations with their families and society at large.
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.
A teenager unwittingly reveals a terrible family secret to her new neighbors.
Tarek is a young man who is working at a telecommunications company,and he fell in love with a girl when he heard her voice in a radio talk show. A customer of the company he works at asks him to spy on a girl which stole a valuable thing from him. When Tarek does his searches, he discovers that she is the girl he have dreamed about.
Based on the epic, written on twelve 5000 year old clay tablets, this is the first film adaption of Gilgamesh
Chronicling the Basus War between two Arabian tribes and their allies, the drama follows the emergence of renowned Arab figure, Al Zeer Salem.
Separate connected episodes about events and situations taken from the reality of daily life, and Aisha solves them, and each episode also presents the methods of making dishes from Damascus cuisine, in the framework of comedic situations between the life of Aisha and those around her.
It presents the details of the lives of its simple heroes who live in a small forgotten village in the beautiful Syrian mountains, called “Um al-Tafnaz al-Fawqa”.
A chronicle of the life of legendary Muslim leader, Salah Al Din Al Ayoubi, who defeated the Crusader army in Jerusalem.
When a famous fashion designer and her gardener’s daughter fall for the same man, the struggle between them soon turns into an all-out war where only one can prevail.
Abdo the charioteer's life becomes beset by a series of hurdles as he grapples with oppression and a fierce quest for love in old Damascus.
The series revolves around a conflict among numerous princes, where each prince believes he is the rightful ruler to unify the kingdom and end the fragmentation plaguing the land.
Eighteen years after the children of three Damascene leaders were kidnapped, the truth begins to surface, tipping the balance in an intense battle between good and evil.
The series revolves around Erwa, a 40-year-old television writer, whose story begins on the night of Baghdad's fall, to show the historical events and political turns that have occurred from 2003 until now.
The series discusses the stories of young university students, their reality during their studies, and the hardships and unknown fate they endure after graduation.
The powerful man Al-Hakam facilitates illegal smuggling through some corrupt policemen, despite the fact that his son Rayan is a police officer who goes after outlaws.
The series tackles a number of negative contemporary social phenomena, shedding light on the challenges encountered by young people, like violence against children, poverty, homelessness, begging, slave trade, motherhood, family disintegration, and honor crimes.
An epic love story between a well-to-do blind girl and a rebel, set against a historical background spanning 60 years of conflicts, secrets and intrigue.
In the tannery neighborhood on the outskirts of Damascus, the death of an influential man ignites a fierce battle between his children that begins with their greed for inheritance and does not end with the secrets they hide.
A man entrusts Abu Al Makhraz with a huge sum of money and disappears. When Abu Al Makhraz dies, his family finds themselves pitted against his relatives.
This series tells the story of the sheikh of an Arab tribe named Ibn al-Wahaj, who is one of the noblest and most honorable Arabs, and has three sons called al-Bashiq and Osama and the youngest Aqab. There was in the tribe of Ibn al-Wahhaj there is a man who hated him and his sons, so he submitted to the sage of the tribe and the author of the narrations in it (Ibn al-Rumiyya), and he asked him to test the ability of the sons of Ibn al-Wahhaj to live outside their father's tribe, so the idea entered his head and he decided to send his three sons to unknown destinations, and said to them: I want you to be the raptors that live in a land that is not its land. So they set off, and Osama went to the north, Al-Bashiq to the south, and Aqab went to the east
It revolves around the two grandsons of the Islamic prophet Muhammad, Hassan and Hussein, and their relationship with their companions, sedition that occurred between them and their companions after the killing of Usman ibn Affan.
The series monitors the social, political and cultural life in Syria from the period 1932 to 1936, where the events take place in two neighboring areas: the city of Aleppo, and a supposed rural area called Kom alHajar.
Events of the series take place in a poor neighborhood, shedding light on the lives of its people, especially the life of an illegitimate young man who makes every effort to be helpful to others.