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- A spiritual journey mixed with adventure and thrill that Ammo took searching for his friend Said, who does neither use the phone nor modern means of communication, and who lives in a village in the depths of the rocky desert in the southeast of Morocco. This journey in which he experienced different situations that helped him free himself from the shackles of the material life, which scattered his being.
- Four ex-militiamen from opposing factions of the Lebanese Civil War, whose unified passion for motorcycle-riding inspires them to put down their weapons for good.
- It's about a man (Michael) who loves his neighbor woman (Jessica), and enter a problem after a problem until he know something that change the look of life for him, you'll cry when you understand his feelings
- Triple A tells the story of three lives, three marginals, for an organ. Subtle variations around the same universe, poverty. Three stories of couples, but all serving a vital need: an organ functional.
- 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.
- As war rages around them, a small group of archaeologists, museum curators and attendants struggle to save the monumental collections of the Museum of Aleppo during the Syrian conflict.
- In an Egyptian summer camp, four school children begin to learn what democracy and freedom means amidst the changes sweeping across the Arab world.
- A series of thrilling events, will lead you to discover the big shocking truth.
- Toren, the grandfather, son and grandchild, a three-generation story narrates about a persecuted and endangered people who went through Dozens of genocide campaigns.
- Fed up with their parents, six teenagers escape from their town to live alone in Hasroun.
- Between Cairo and Dubai, Samar tries to rebuild her life after an acid attack by her ex-partner. The film captures 5 years of her mental and physical healing journey through helping another woman who was subjected to acid.
- An auteur's personal narrative interwoven with those of other Syrian characters highlighting years of silence, fear and terror. A representation of stories which were behind the eruption of the Syrian society and the start of its revolution.
- A story of a city that once connected Palestine to the world - what it once was, what it is now, and what it could have become.
- Tunisia 2013, a society in turmoil during the drafting of its new constitution by the newly elected Parliament, two young wanderers, Aïda and Abdou, meet one night by chance, their roads will cross and uncross to share their misery.
- A tribute to the history of the educational institution in Tunisia, true stories, memories, unpublished photos and documents from the national archive of Tunisia telling the journey of former teachers and students...AL ALAOUIA duty and obligation.
- Hamida (Amor Aquint) is a poor young Arab boy who is befriended by Renaud (Francis Lefebvre), the grandson of a wealthy plantation owner (Jean Davy). The boys become fast friends in spite of the colonial system that encourages separating the two cultures. When Hamida dies because of medical neglect, Renaud feels the first pangs of social and cultural injustice. His first stirrings of social awareness have Renaud vow not to be prejudiced like his grandfather in this sentimental drama with an anti-colonialist message.
- Abdelghafour is a journalist who writes about the social and historical links between the inhabitants of the far north and the south of Morocco. He is trucked by al-Batal, a head of a military militia in Algeria. After many years of preparing for his marriage to Fatimatu, abdelghafour is able finally to organize a beautiful wedding. Al-Batal, however, decides to kidnap abdelghafour on the day of his wedding. Fatimstu's father is killed also while al-Batal's men try to control the agitated situation that is generated from the panic caused by this attack...
- When the time comes to make a comparison between our value from a people's point of view and our value from God's viewpoint.
- 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.
- Follows the last years of Tunisian singer Habiba M'sikar's life between 1927 and 1930 when she was at the peak of her glory and performed in the "soirées" of Tunis.
- A film that celebrates and enhances a popular Moroccan choreographic and musical heritage, rich in its spontaneity and liveliness .
- Lamia, Aya and Siham suffer from the rare disease called ''Xeroderma Pigmentosum'', the film shows their monotonous daily lives, how each accepts their illness differently, and how each has chosen to challenge reality.
- In a Tunisian village El Omrane in Sidi Bouzid (283 km from Tunis), massive arrests against young people who demonstrated their right to work. The elders of the town decide to start a hunger strike. Hamza 12, helps us discover the village, between resistance and memory.
- January 5, 2008, a sit-in organized by young unemployed in the city of Redeyef in the southwest of Tunisia, marked the beginning of a civil disobedience movement, which lasted six months. Their names are: Adnène, Bechir, Leila, Jemaa, Haroun, Moudhafer, Adel, they were teachers, unemployed or desperate young people. They claimed their rights to wealth, dignity and justice. It happened in the mining area, the stronghold of phosphate ore where the equation is simple and absurd: the phosphate is produced by the region that suffers the consequences (environmental and other) without benefit. 4 years later, what has remained of this human epic? Wounded souls, broken destinies, open wounds but also pride and dignity.
- An investigation about Muslim women's sexuality in Tunisia, including virginity prior to wedding.
- The olive tree is an evidence of an immense history and different customs that date back to the 8th century BC, this blessed tree played an important role in social, economic and cultural terms, a role in which we did not have enough consciousness..
- In a popular suburb of Tunis, a fanfare trombonist dreamed that his son, Anès, would become a great musician. Appropriating the father's dream, the child has developed extraordinary skills in the practice of the violin. He won several competitions and finally gained access to London's prestigious Yehudi Menuhin School. The film traces the stages of this extraordinary journey, the obstacles that Anès encounters, his evolution during his exile in Europe.
- Tunisia, 2011. The transition is abrupt. The country is in full euphoria. From sit-in crowds at Kasbah Square to long queues in front of polling stations, the road to the electoral date is tumultuous. Everyone enjoys the fruits of this historic opportunity in its own way. Everyone is counting on elections to turn a page and write a new one. Multiplying election promises, politicians position themselves and seek to defend their visions. Their supporters invest public space in the conquest of voters. "7½" is a vertiginous dive in a period where Tunisian streets beat with a race for change, a flashback that tickles our memories and our consciences.
- My fourteenth is Tunisian people from the Jewish born and raised there, passing by the expatriate, going from south to north Tunisia,how those people lived the 14Th of January 2011. How did they felt when they get informed that the dictator Ben Ali left the country.
- Alif Issa is a Tunisian anarchist painter, multidisciplinary visual artist, he is 81 years old. Skinny and small, he hides his eyes behind the glasses and leans on his red wooden skin to balance his progress. He often wears costumes made by his own care, Ali Issa spends his days, painting portraits, landscapes, recovering objects, gleaned everywhere, to install them in his installations. He always looks at his old coils and slides that he wants to restore. In his lonely solitude, he surrounded himself with domestic animals: a ball and a rooster are installed in his garden, a cat and a dog live with him, as if to isolate his son. Ali Issa shares his meals with them, he talks to them, confides in them.
- Twelve Palestinian women sit before us and talk of their life before the Diaspora, of their memories, of their lives and of their identity. Their narratives are connected by the enduring thread of the ancient art of embroidery. Twelve resilient, determined and articulate women from disparate walks of life: lawyers, artists, housewives, activists, architects, and politicians stitch together the story of their homeland, of their dispossession, and of their unwavering determination that justice will prevail. Through their stories, the individual weaves into the collective, yet remaining distinctly personal. Twelve women, twelve life-spans and stories from Palestine; a land whose position was fixed on the map of the world, but is now embroidered on its face.
- Shows the life of a 25 years old youth, who has an illness called Dream Reality Confusion. Yusif Ibrahim is a university student who studies Arabic literature in Beirut, he suddenly starts to live two separated lives before he decides to stop taking the treatment, and then joins a weapon trading Mafia that works in Lebanon and Syria in one of his two lives, he does that to protect his brother Firas after he died in his other life while he (Firas) was trading in weapons.
- Makhlouf Bombardier, decides to be elected mayor of a dechra (village). So he surrounds himself with his partners to organize a great campaign for his election. Bombardier became the mayor of the village and is organizing an international film festival to compete at the Carthage festival.
- The new comedy series Sowalef Tafash reflects through its thirty episodes the daily life and neighborhood interactions in the Gulf during the period between the forties and fifties, of the last century. Although some episodes throw light over the current social situation, the screening of the whole series, however, is inspired by the nature of the popular and traditional life which characterized the Arab Gulf states during that era. Tafash, a dreamer young man is trying hard to get a decent job, in order to be able to marry his beloved Adhari, the daughter of his neighbors; Abu Adhari, the village barber and his bossy wife. Trying to conquer the difficulties of life with the helping hand of his loyal friend Jassum, Tafash puts himself - as well as others - indiscriminately into more unexpected troubles. None of their neighbors and friends are quite safe of their non-welcome disasters. Up to ten key characters emerge along the stories being told through the episodes, in addition to minor and assistant characters. The appearance of special guest TV stars does not let the series run into monotony and makes each episode as special. Ensuring to draw a smile on our viewers' faces with all age groups and diversity of tastes, Sowalef Tafash team hopes to gain admiration and satisfaction of all viewers.
- The residents of a small Moroccan city endure separate lives while knowing the same cycles of burden and small joys. Wives and husbands, mothers and fathers, sons and daughters maneuver their way through mourning as death takes loved ones and life insists on moving forward. Here, letting go is a challenge for both the dead and the living. The people of this city share the same world, but don't always know when they live in each other's lives, helping and harming each other. Connected by friendship, proximity, and blood, they both destroy and support each other. Through weddings, funerals, murders, forgiveness, love, new birth, and sacrifice, the living build community and hope. Meanwhile, the souls of the dead linger to watch over loved ones.
- In a very agitated political context, the march for independence from French Colonialism, intellectual patriots, activists and freedom fighters sought to reform and develop the Tunisian Society at that specific time.
- Mohammad Raiuna lives in Redayef and runs a Stambeli group of children under twenty who live in difficult social conditions. They start to work at festivals and other events but when Mohammad goes to prison and then falls sick, everything changes.
- An arson attack ravaged the mausoleum of "Saïda Manoubia", a holy Saint of Sufi of the 12th Century, on the evening of October 15 to 16, 2012. This film attempts to revive "Saïda" from its ashes through life stories of women who believe in it.
- Using footage of her family she has shot on video for over a decade ,the filmmaker offers a personal vision of the complexities of the war in Lebanon.
- This documentary retraces the mobilization of Tunisian women in taking part in the democratic march of the new Tunisia, in a spirit of continuity and commitment that also pays tribute to the pioneering Tunisian women rights activists.
- Living in exile in France for the past 25 years, Abbas Fahdel last year made Retour à Babylone, the occasion to return home, be reunited with his childhood friends and explore a reality that was now alien to him. In this film, Fahdel's camera shows us Iraqis in another light and the hopes and fears of these men and women who escaped the nightmare of a dictatorship only to be mired in chaos. He is better equipped than anyone for this task. He is both an "outside" angle of vision and a brotherly view. An Iraqi among Iarqis, he embodies a reference point in the turmoil. His presence and commitment during the past year, his receptivity during those months when everyone was preparing for war explains why his camera is never indiscreet or prying.
- Shot over 12 months in Iraq, Kuwait, London and the US, Losing Ahmad follows the true story of Ahmad Sharif, a seven-year-old from Baghdad who lost his sight and right arm to an American bomb, which exploded as he returned home from school one day. Four Americans travel to the Kuwait-Iraq border to pick up Ahmad and escort him to New York for medical care, hoping that he might eventually be able to see again. But on the way to the US everything changes, and this humanitarian mission becomes a dirty business.
- The story of prophet "Muhammad" and the delivery of the message of God "Allah."
- Diana, a young farmer from a conservative family, lives in the country. During her day off, she and her two sisters sit on the rooftop preparing themselves for a neighbor's wedding. Weddings are essential occasions for these village women; they use them to celebrate what's left of their femininity, which they feel that their hard work on the farm diminishes. As for Diana, it's a great chance to meet her secret boyfriend. After she meets with him at the appointed time, in the place where they would have privacy, her mother discovers their relationship, which leads to her whole family finding out. Three days later, all of the family women ride the truck out at dawn to work on the farm as usual. Diana's brother accompanies them, as their father requested, and takes all the unmarried women with him. None of the girls on the truck are talking, no birds are singing, it is cold. It is Diana's last day.
- a story about a group of people trying to travel to Algiers but the problem is in the way of travel as all the buses that pass are completely filled and no one wants to take them. then everyone decides to find a taxi. The driver accepts to take them all and along the way many situations occur.
- As the Lebanese civil war rages outside in the streets of Beirut, life in the Sandy Snack bar goes as usual, serving as a microcosm to Beirut in particular and Lebanon in general. Zakaria (Ziad Rahbani) is a bartender who -- like the rest of his compatriots -- suffers from the increasing prices and lack of security. In order to get by, he brings his wife Thorayya (Nabila Zeytouni) to assist him in the bar and to sell herself to the clientele outside the bar. The play focuses on Zakaria's struggle between his jealousy and feeling like a cuckold and his inability to return to poverty by asking his wife to stop working. Meanwhile, Rahbani's commentary on the war, the Lebanese society and its rapid urbanization, and the various forces shaping the war is played out by various characters around the couple: Sheikh Da'fous is a stereotypical rich man from the Gulf who wants to open a hotel in his country and employ Zakaria, Ramiz delivers vegetables from the village and gets enchanted by the city life, Rida is an underpaid busboy who dreams of a better life brought on by his learning English. Ziad Rahbani's witty dialogue and play on words keeps you in stitches and ensures that you'll be quoting this play long after you're done watching. This film was produced in 2016 from footage of the original play from 1978, highlighting how relevant this play remains in our day and age.
- Hind, a popular television show producer and star presenter, falls in love with Lassaad, a police commissioner who was investigating a murder of a building contractor. in the process, they discover a network of Jihadist smugglers to Syria.
- Flying Paper tells the uplifting story of resilient Palestinian youth in the Gaza Strip on a quest to shatter the Guinness World Record for the most kites ever flown.