Arabic

A simple Iraqi farmer who gets an unexpected guest knocking on his door. A guest who must be hidden from family, friends and 150 000 American soldiers. The guest is President Saddam Hussein.Read More »

Synopsis:
Noura struggles to reconcile two worlds, Muslim women and men, while also dealing with his own sexuality.Read More »

Documentary shot during the Lebanese Civil War, a prequel to Alaouié’s Letter From a Time of Exile (1989).Read More »

Leila Mourad one of the Orient’s Divas stars in this classic musical romance as a poor girl who marries a wealthy young man while others try to break them apart.Read More »

Aya, in her late twenties, still lives with her parents in southern Tunisia and feels trapped in a life without prospects. One day, the minivan in which she commutes daily between her town and the hotel where she works crashes. As the sole survivor of the accident, she realizes it could be her chance to start a new life. She flees to Tunis under a new identity, but everything is soon compromised when she becomes the main witness to a police blunder.Read More »

Plot: The mayor of a small village invents a fictional character called ‘Rajeh’ which he claims he fights on the outskirts of the village. But some people question the mayor’s stories and call him a bluffer. He admits to his niece, Rima, the truth. He made it all up. Fadlou and Eed carry on a number of crimes and blame Rajeh for it. It’s the time for the annual singles festival where males and females still unmarried get engaged, and it’s when Rajeh appears. People start getting scared forming community watches looking for Rajeh.Read More »

Lebanese auteur Christian Ghazi’s Hundred Faces for a Single Day (1971) is the avant-garde masterwork that challenged the limits of political film in the revolutionary period. Rejecting propagandistic or narrative conventions, the film’s episodic structure, eerie sound design, and daring lead performance (from Madonna Ghazi) come together in a stinging critique of the revolution’s cultural and political elites.Read More »

Bint El-Harass (Arabic: بنت الحارس) AKA The Guard Daughter is a Lebanese musical-drama directed by the Egyptian director Henry Barakat (known for Doa al karawan AKA The Nightingale’s Prayer) story, dialog and musical score by the Rahbani brothers Assi & Mansour and starring the greatest voice ever lived Fairuz.
This is the third and maybe the last film starring Fairuz after Biya el-Khawatim AKA The Ring Seller and Safar Barlek and the second collaboration between the director and the Rahbani brothers and Fairuz.Read More »

Synopsis:
Jude Chehab investigates her mother Hiba’s adherence to a closed-off, all-female religious sect in Syria. Chehab examines how their mother-daughter relationship and the dynamics of the entire family were upended by this devotion.Read More »