Tag Archives: Arabic

Mediterranean Fever
6.7

Mediterranean Fever

Dec. 14, 2022

Mediterranean Fever

Waleed dreams of a writing career while suffering from depression. He develops a relationship with his neighbor – a small-time crook. While ...
Capernaum
8.4

Capernaum

Oct. 06, 2018

Capernaum

Zain, a 12-year-old boy scrambling to survive on the streets of Beirut, sues his parents for having brought him into such an unjust world, where ...
We No Longer Prefer Mountains
0

We No Longer Prefer Mountains

An examination of the Druze religious minority in occupied Palestine, which takes the environment as a metaphor for the group’s fraught and ...
Divine Intervention
6.6

Divine Intervention

Jan. 01, 2002

Divine Intervention

Santa Claus tries to outrun a gang of knife-wielding youth. It’s one of several vignettes of Palestinian life in Israel – in a ...
A Son
7.0

A Son

Jan. 15, 2020

A Son

Tunisia, summer 2011. The holiday to the South of the country ends in disaster for Fares, Meriem and their 10-year-old son Aziz, when he is ...
143 Sahara Street
6.9

143 Sahara Street

Jun. 16, 2021

143 Sahara Street

In the middle of the Algerian Sahara, in her relay, a woman writes her History, she welcomes, for a cigarette, a coffee or eggs, truckers, ...
Foragers
7.5

Foragers

Apr. 15, 2022

Foragers

Elderly Palestinians are caught between their right to forage their own land and the harsh restrictions imposed by their occupiers on the basis ...
For Rent
6.2

For Rent

May. 26, 2021

For Rent

As Mukhtar lives in a rented apartment, he finds himself experiencing bizarre incidents that happen in the apartment every day, when he sees the ...
Leila and the Wolves
7.7

Leila and the Wolves

Jan. 02, 1984

Leila and the Wolves

A film that weaves together re-enactments, archive footage and fairy-tale sequences to create a testament to the history of Lebanese and ...
Rome Rather Than You
6.0

Rome Rather Than You

Sep. 04, 2006

Rome Rather Than You

For more than ten years a “slow war” has been going on in Algeria: a war without battlefields but with more than 100,000 people ...
Warsha
7.2

Warsha

Sep. 22, 2022

Warsha

Warsha follows Mohammad, a Syrian migrant working as a crane operator in Beirut. One morning he volunteers to take on one of the tallest and ...
Good and Prosperous
3.8

Good and Prosperous

Aug. 30, 2017

Good and Prosperous

The film revolves around the story of two brothers trying to search for a job. During the search they face many comedic situations when they work ...
Souad
6.5

Souad

Aug. 27, 2021

Souad

Souad, a 19-year-old young woman, leads a double life. While remaining conservative and veiled among her family and society, Souad is obsessed ...
Scarecrow
4.9

Scarecrow

Aug. 08, 2019

Scarecrow

The story revolves around a grandfather who stole a rare masterpiece belonging to the late singer (Umm Kulthum) in his youth, but after years ...
Head to Head
0

Head to Head

Aug. 03, 2023

Head to Head

Hilarity meets danger when a lovesick chauffeur and a bootleg mechanic mistakenly pick up a retired crime lord, igniting a wild, life-changing ...
Baed El Shar
0

Baed El Shar

Apr. 21, 2023

Baed El Shar

Sully a lover boy, who escapes his marriage from Farah, to then find himself in love with Mariam but fails to marry her because of a spell. His ...
Captain Abu Raed
7.3

Captain Abu Raed

Dec. 11, 2007

Captain Abu Raed

Abu Raed is an old airport janitor who has always yearned of seeing the world but has never been able to afford to travel. One day a group of ...
18 Days
7.4

18 Days

Sep. 06, 2011

18 Days

10 Separate stories about the “25 January ” revolution and the Egyptian people in the revolution, the protests against the previous ...
Can’t Complain
7.5

Can’t Complain

Jul. 31, 2007

Can’t Complain

Identical triplets Simsim, Prince and Bebo have spent their entire lives working as con artists and causing people to believe they are one person ...