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 »
Tag Archives: Arabic
The Massacre of Kafr Kassem / Kafr kasem (1975) Borhane Alaouié, Abdallah Abbassi, Ahmad Ayub, Salim Sabri
This political drama takes place on the even of the 1956 Suez War, Israel imposed a curfew on Palestinians living under its rule. Read More »
Farewell Baghdad / Mafriah ha-yonim (2013) Nissim Dayan, Daniel Gad, Yasmin Ayun, Tawfeek Barhom
Between the years 1950-51 close to 130 thousand Jews left Iraq. The most ancient community in the world ceased to exist. Read More »
Life or Death / Hayat ou maut (1954) Kamal El-Shaikh, Yusuf Wahbi, Madihah Yusri, Imad Hamdi
A man with cardiac problems, had heart attack and sent his daughter Read More »
The Prince That Contemplated His Soul / Bab’Aziz (2005) Nacer Khemir, Parviz Shahinkhou, Maryam Hamid, Golshifteh Farahani
Bab’Aziz – The Prince Who Contemplated His Soul is the story of a blind dervish Read More »
The Night of the Jackal / Layali ibn awa (1989) Abdellatif Abdelhamid, Assaad Feddah, Najah Abdullah, Muhsen Ghazi
Syria, 1967, rumors of war. Abu Kamel, a peasant who farms tomatoes near Latakia, bullies his family. Read More »
The Kite / Le cerf-volant (2003) Randa Chahal Sabag, Flavia Bechara, Maher Bsaibes, Randa Asmar
A young 15 year old girl, Lamia, lives in a southern Lebanese village on the border with Israel. Read More »
Papicha (2019) Mounia Meddour, Lyna Khoudri, Shirine Boutella, Hilda Amira Douaouda
Algiers, 1997. The country is in the hands of terrorist groups that seek to establish an archaic Islamic state. Read More »
Chronicle of a Disappearance (1996) Elia Suleiman, Nazira Suleiman, Fuad Suleiman
A Palestinian expatriate filmmaker (Elia Suleiman) documents the loss of national identity in Israel’s Arab population. Read More »
Alexandrie… New York (2004) Youssef Chahine, Mahmoud Hemida, Ahmed Yehia, Youssra
Yehia, an Egyptian director from Alexandria goes to New York Read More »