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- The events of the film revolve around Halim and Mounir who accidentally come across a magic notebook. One night, unaware of the powers of this notebook, Halim, on a whim and after being rejected by the bodyguards of a big city club, expresses his anger by writing a wish on the notebook "And if all men disappeared from the earth". The wish is granted and the whole world is devoid of men except for Halim and Mounir. Our two protagonists did not know that they were going to experience the worst moments of their lives, all of which are interspersed with comical and offbeat situations.
- After three wars in eight years and an ongoing eleven-year blockade, how are the people of Gaza coping? This is a story about extraordinary citizens trying to keep others alive and healthy, whether it be by securing access to clean water while maintaining waste management systems, or ensuring that the hospital emergency rooms have power.
- The Iraqi soccer team unites players from warring factions to become 2007 Asian Cup champions, briefly unifying the country amid civil war. Over a decade later, the players recount their journey through conflict to an unlikely victory.
- 19-year-old Tiba and her friends are hopeful. They are fighting for democracy in Iraq. They are on the forefront of the biggest youth movement in the 20 years since the US invaded the country and deposed Saddam Hussein. Together with friends Khader and Yousif, she has started a medical team that sews and patches and helps the brave young protesters when they have been bathed in tear gas yet again. They spend days and nights in tents in Tahrir Square in the centre of Baghdad. Here they discuss and plan how to bring freedom, democracy and change to Iraq. They are tired of militias, corrupt politicians and foreign troops defining the country. Tiba has left the forced marriage she ended up in at 14 and is also fighting for the rights of other women. 'Baghdad On Fire' is an energetic account from inside the demonstrations and of the new Iraqi youth. A story full of hope and faith and courage and joy, but also a story full of pain and the cost that courage and the fight for freedom will always have.
- The film follows the life of a family of 6 in the Shatila camp. Slowly, through hardship and dreams, we discover a family grieving the loss of their youngest daughter passed away during the 2020 Beirut port explosion.
- A personal journey, where images of love and lust for cinema in wartime and postwar Beirut are revisited in the filmmaker's attempt to reconstruct the scattered image of a missing passionate life.
- It tells three separate stories First story: Forbidden The events revolve around a poor young man who works for the first time in a casino, and is dazzled by the wealthy, and upon the end of the work he returns to his modest residence, and finds his sister, girlfriend and sister-in-law who works as a chariot driver with a donkey waiting for him to tell them about the first day of work, so he decides to take them to this place after he closes Then they were surprised by the police, who were arrested on charges of breaking into the casino outside his work hours. The second story: It was The events revolve around a (Sunni) girl from a popular poor neighborhood, who had an emotional relationship with (Hassouna) al-Najjar, then left the neighborhood to work in the cinema, and became a famous star who starred in Shpak films, and of course she became one of the wealthy, and the years pass, and the star decides to star in A movie in a popular bath in the same neighborhood in which she lived in the past, and news of her presence in the popular neighborhood is announced in the newspapers, and everyone remembers her, especially (Hassouna) who recalls memories of the past and dreams of restoring his relationship with the great artist. The third story: the tale of the original and the image The police find the body of a woman under the foot of the pyramid, the news is published in the newspaper, a group of people look at the picture with eyes as if they know its owner, such as the mother whose daughter fled the village to work in Cairo, and the master who sees in her his young maid who was a spinner, then the mistress of one of the managers .
- After decades of devastating war in Iraq, the horrors are still fresh in the minds of different generations. Their disturbing stories are filmed in a poetic style that also cautiously opens a door to beauty and contemplation.
- Amirah and Ashraf are preparing for their wedding. On this occasion, Ashraf invites his friends to come to Sharm El-Sheikh from their annual trip that they used to take annually, but this time a major disaster is upon their heads.
- Mamdooh is married to Wafa, and Mursi is married to Zizi, and they work together in an advertising company. They are famous for their frequent relationships with women. Wafa discovers that her husband Mamdooh is cheating on her with Nana, the advertising girl, during a party at the house of producer Adham. She returns to the house of her father Abdulfattah and her mother Hafizah and asks for a divorce from Mamdooh. Nafisah also tries to get closer to Mamdooh.
- After the defeat of 1967, Samia moves with her brother and his family to another city and is forced to marry without love from Mossad the butcher, while having an affair with Amer the student.
- Three young men spend their summer at a camp in Alexandria until they cross paths with Mona who suggests that they stay at her grandfather's abandoned villa. Abdel Rahman proposes to turn it into a boardinghouse, so what will happen to the three young men?
- The children of a mountain village near Mosul reenact a century of Iraqi history, from the secret agreement of Sykes/Picot signed in 1916 to the realm of terror established by the Islamic State in 2016.
- Fatima ALhamily is the first Emirati Female camel owner to physically take part in the Camel Beauty Pageant Competitions as well to enter the camels auctions in the UAE. Regardless of all the difficulties and challenges she encountered while trying to prove herself in one of the most male dominant domains, her wish to win in a race or a beauty pageant contest remains the only compensation to overcome her failures. Just when Fatima begins to lose hope, an unexpected reward comes her way.
- Professor Jumaa invented a formula that manufactures bullet-proof formula from medicinal herbs. His son Professor Khamis is surprised by the death of his father and that the invention is stolen. He decides to retaliate against the killers after a journey of investigation, with the help of his fiancee Huda and her brother Said.
- The odyssey of Leila, a French woman of Iraqi origin who, after an accident and years of exile, reconnects with her father, a dissident of Saddam Hussein, by learning Arabic and singing her story, driven by an irrepressible desire to live.
- At the gates of the Negev desert, a group of young Palestinians struggles using cameras and nonviolent actions to defend their villages from the Israeli military occupation, taking back the land and the caves stolen from their families.
- For half of his life Nicolas, the director, used the camera as confidant to film his video diary. This intimate film shows the strong and, at time, dysfunctional relationship that binds Nicolas to his mother and sister after the death of his father. His sister gets married and moves away from home leaving the mother face to face with her son. But Nicolas is carrying a fear that she knows nothing about.
- This biopic follows Fatema Mernissi's life as a figure of Moroccan feminism. We follow her steps and interests through the days as she always stayed anchored in the political scene of her times. She shared her feminine side of living in a Muslim society and encouraged millions of women to open themselves to the world and break through frontiers they couldn't even dream of before. The movie is from the director's point of view who accompanied the sociologist in her works and investigations. Both observer and actor, all the memories resurface when he learns her death.
- Yassine, the son of an authoritarian father and a depressive mother, has managed to maintain a relatively balanced facade throughout his life. It is his powerful crush on Leïla, a classmate, that will finally tip this precarious balance.
- Adios Beirut is the third part of a chronicle of two Palestinian families, and their life over eight tumultuous years, is a story about fear, uncertainty, longing, is a film about the new Diaspora of the Palestinians, is shot in Lebanon, Israel, France, Italy and Cuba.
- Zaatari - Memories of the Labyrinth is a reflection on exile and freedom in the contemporary world. How can we film our memories? How can we speak of freedom when we are deprived of it? Despite the incalculable losses caused by a conflict that forced thousands of Syrians to seek refuge in the desert, this documentary feature shows people of extraordinary will who reinvent themselves every day and are courageously struggling to leave the traumas of war behind them. The Syrian refugees live enclosed by fences, trenches and armored vehicles that offer the camp a precarious stability. Without being able to go back home nor allowed to rebuild their lives in another country, they exert a silent resistance and turn a hostile environment into a temporary home made of memories and hopes.
- Hamed (Iloosh Khoshabe) is an experienced good-hearted master handy man and a faithful loving husband and father living with his wife and little crippled daughter and working in his workshop with his simple-minded assistant Madkour (Ismail Yassen), he happened to know Ilham who is a wealthy prostitute lives with Kamal (Joseph Nanno) and his gang, she truly loved Hamed and involved in a love relationship with him, she taught him to drink and to gamble and eventually to abandon his wife and daughter to live with her. This relation angered Kamal and his gang of sinners and so they tried everythig to break them up in vain and they even tried to kill Hamed and they failed because of his great strength. At last an idea came into Kamal's devilish mind, and so he and his fellow gangsters went and kidnapped Hamed's poor little crippled daughter to threaten him and to force him to leave Ilham, So, will they succeed this time?
- Forty protagonists, witnesses and victims look back at the 1989 massacres on both sides of the Senegal River, the border between Mauritania and Senegal, in order to understand what really happened.
- "Strange Fish" echoes Billie Holiday's song "Strange Fruit" in which, to general indifference, violence against coloured people is taken as normal, with « black bodies swinging in the southern breeze, strange fruit hanging from the poplar trees». In the South of the Mediterranean the feeling is the same. The fishermen in Zarzis, a Tunisian town on Libya's borders, set out each day wondering whether they will find a strange fish in their nets, the bloated corpse of a drowned migrant. But Strange Fish does not only show this drama, with its all-pervading indifference. It rather shows the deep and human response of the town's anonymous heroes. For 15 years, these fishermen have helped and saved thousands of people. "And if we find them already dead, we help them as well - we bury them", says Chamseddine Marzoug.
- Three friends work in robberies with knives, until they come up with an idea to steal their friend's policeman's father's gun to carry out a heist that requires firearms, and soon things turn against them, conflicts appear between them and they enter into a great wave of violence.
- This movie about a lady (Lucy) who endeavor to support her family by managing a hair dress shop in a very difficult environment
- Naoum can't seem to hold down a job. Mrs. Naamat is keen to find him the right employment. A romance develops between the two.
- This is a documentary film that sheds light on "Black February" movie, which reveals some of the social problems in Egypt as a result of the isolation of social groups with power, wealth and influence without the rest of society.
- To cover up a robbery, a plan is devised to set fire to the warehouse. When Youssef confides in Dalia about his concern over the fire, she reports him to Sherif, the mastermind behind the crime. Youssef tries to expose Sherif who plots to have him murdered.
- Mabrouk comes from his village, and on the train he meets Nawara. He helps her to escape from her uncle who wants to kill her to defend his honor. He also meets Hashim, who tries to quit being an informer for officer Sharif.
- A film about the unprecedented Swiss grassroots movement of regular citizens who rise to aid thousands of refugees stranded at the European borders. In rich and safe Switzerland people from all backgrounds leave their regular life behind to support people in need. There is a Swiss farmer and his wife who keep cows in the Swiss Alps, a former commander of the Swiss Army, an elder rich lady residing at the lakeside, and a successful comedian and entertainer. These unexperienced volunteers take on an adventure that will change their lives forever.
- Going for gold in the seated shot put
- Shamshoon marries Hadyah, daughter of Boss Mahmood the plumber. After marriage, he is surprised that his father-in-law has made him sign a number of checks for the marriage costs. The wife travels abroad frequently due to her work as a translator, so Shamshoon decides to travel to Upper Egypt to marry another woman, and his choice falls on Nasah, the naive rural girl. He marries her on the basis that she will obey him in everything, but she soon observes the world around her, rebels, and demands that he makes her equal to his first wife.
- A young girl and a young boy are wanted by the judicial power because they are accused of being involved in terrorist crimes. During their escape they enter a world of crime and smuggle. Within all this they fall in love and the two lovers try to escape and prove their innocence.
- In a romantic comedy, a young man and a girl suffer many financial and social difficulties in trying to consummate their marriage. Unexpectedly, the owner of the company in which they both work offers a tempting offer to help them solve all their problems, but it will put their love to the test.
- When Samir graduates from university, and is confronted with the reality that his job will not provide him with enough income, he decides to work in other jobs. His fiance struggles all the time until a producer asks her to work with him in advertisements.
- The owner of a fishing fleet in Abu Qir is actually a smuggler under surveillance by the police. Officer Waheed tries to get close to him using his daughter Laila.