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Tag Archives: Arabic
The Dove’s Lost Necklace AKA Le collier perdu de la colombe (1991) Nacer Khemir, Navin Chowdhry, Walid Arakji, Ninar Esber
The story revolves around Hassan, who is studying Arabic calligraphy from a grand master. Read More »
The Dupes AKA Al-makhdu’un (1972) Tewfik Saleh, Mohamed Kheir-Halouani, Abderrahman Alrahy, Bassan Lofti Abou-Ghazala
Set in Iraq (but shot in Syria), this is the story of three men who try to leave their impoverished and hopeless lives to get get work in Kuwait. Read More »
A Thousand and One Hands AKA Les mille et une mains (1973) Souheil Ben-Barka, Abdou Chaibane, Mimsy Farmer, Si Ahmed
In Morocco, an old dyer and his young son Miloud work transporting wool packs. Read More »
The Bad Guys AKA El Achrar (1970) Houssam El-Din Mustafa, Rushdy Abaza, Adel Adham, Amira
An adventure of money, love and betrayal in the deserts of Egypt at the site of El Alamein battle of WWII. Read More »
The Nouba of the Women of Mount Chenoua AKA La nouba des femmes du mont Chenoua (1979) Assia Djebbar
Returning to her native region 15 years after the end of the Algerian war Read More »
Days and Night AKA Ayyam wa layali (1955) Henry Barakat, Abdel Halim Hafez, Eman, Mahmoud El-Meliguy
Egyptian singer Abdel Halim Hafez stars in director Henri Barakat’s romantic musical drama about an athletic young man Read More »
Unsettled Land AKA Ha-Holmim (1987) Uri Barbash, Kelly McGillis, John Shea, Arnon Zadok
Set in the Middle East in 1919, a group of European Jews planning on settling in the Sinai Desert are attacked by Bedouin tribesmen. Read More »
Atash AKA Thirst (2004) Tawfik Abu Wael, Hussein Yassin Mahajne, Amal Bweerat, Ruba Blal
A family of five, their two goats and donkey live in the middle of nowhere far from their village home. Read More »
7 Days (2008) Ronit Elkabetz, Shlomi Elkabetz, Moshe Ivgy, Yaël Abecassis
When one of the brothers (Ohayn) dies, all the whole family comes for Shiva (Jewish tradition,when the family sits seven days at the home after the death one of their family). Read More »
Wajib – The Wedding Invitation (2017) Annemarie Jacir, Mohammad Bakri, Saleh Bakri, Tarik Kopty
A father and his estranged son must come together to hand deliver his daughter’s wedding Read More »
Three Mothers (2006) Dina Zvi-Riklis, Miri Mesika, Gila Almagor, Rivka Raz
Rose, Flora and Yasmin were born as a triplet sixty something years ago in Alexandria, Egypt. Read More »
Fertile Memory (1980) Michel Khleifi, Farah Hatoum, Sahar Khalifeh
The first full length film to be shot within the disputed Palestinian West Bank “Green Line,” Read More »
I Saw Ben Barka Get Killed (2005) Serge Le Péron, Saïd Smihi, Charles Berling, Simon Abkarian, Josiane Balasko
My name is Georges Figon. Okay I’m dead but, being the talkative kind, death isn’t going to stop me from speaking. Read More »
Exiles (2004) Tony Gatlif, Romain Duris, Lubna Azabal, Zouhir Gacem
Two French lovers, Zano and Naima, decided to travel to the land of their parents: Algeria. Read More »