Nahr el Hub is the Egyptian adaptation of Leo Tolstoy’s “Anna Karenina”. Nawal, a rural girl, is married off Read More »
Tag Archives: Arabic
Winter of Discontent (2012) Ibrahim El-Batout, Amr Waked, Farah Youssef, Salah Alhanafy
Set against the momentous backdrop of the whirlwind Tahrir Square protests, Winter of discontent poetically Read More »
The Narrow Frame of Midnight / Itar el-layl (2014) Tala Hadid, Khalid Abdalla, Marie-Josée Croze, Fadwa Boujouane
A man in search of his brother and a young girl in search of a home, both running toward an unknown future. One finds freedom, the other death. Read More »
Sous les bombes / Under the Bombs (2007) Philippe Aractingi, Nada Abou Farhat, Georges Khabbaz, Rawia Elchab
Under the bombs, a woman searches for her son. A man accompanies her. They have nothing in common. Read More »
Yara (2018) Abbas Fahdel, Michelle Wehbe, Elias Freifer, Mary Alkady
Yara lives alone with her grandmother in an isolated valley Read More »
Within Sand (2022) Moe Alatawi, Ra’ed Alshammari, Adwa Fahad, Obaid Alwadaani
When “Snam” gets ambushed by a group of thieves, he finds himself lost in the Saudi desert. Read More »
Aïcha (2024) Mehdi Barsaoui, Fatma Sfarr, Hela Ayed, Ala BenHamad
Aya, thirty-year-old Tunisian, lives in Tozeur, a city in southern Tunisia, at the gates of the desert. Read More »
Man of Ashes / Rih Essed (1986) Nouri Bouzid, Imed Maalal
In the ensuing days before his wedding bridegroom Hachemi faces both the anxieties Read More »
Pasolini Pa* Palestine (2005) Ayreen Anastas, Documentary
Pasolini Pa* Palestine is an attempt to repeat Pasolini’s trip to Palestine in his film Read More »
Leila and the Wolves / Leila wa al ziap (1984) Heiny Srour, Rafik Ali Ahmad, Nabila Zeitouni
A film that weaves together re-enactments, archive footage and fairy-tale sequences Read More »