In 1982, amid the Lebanese Civil War, Israeli pilot Yoni (Stephen Dorff) is shot down over Beirut Read More »
Tag Archives: Arabic
Mimosas (2016) Oliver Laxe, Ahmed Hammoud, Shakib Ben Omar, Said Aagli
A caravan escorts an elderly, dying Sheikh through the Moroccan Atlas. Read More »
Rana’s Wedding / Al qods fee yom akhar (2002) Hany Abu-Assad, Clara Khoury, Khalifa Natour, Ismael Dabbag
About a Palestinian girl of 17 who wants to get married to the man of her own choosing. Read More »
Hundred Faces for a Single Day / Mi’at Wajeh Li Yawm Wahed (1972) Christian Ghazy, Micheline Daou, Madonna Ghazi, Salah Moukhallati
Rejecting all propagandistic or narrative convention Read More »
Chaos / Heya fawda (2007) Youssef Chahine, Khaled Youssef, Khaled Saleh, Menna Shalabi, Youssef El Sherif
Choubra, cosmopolitan neighborhood of Cairo. Hatem, maggoty police officer Read More »
Ramparts of Clay AKA Remparts d’argile (1970) Jean-Louis Bertuccelli, Leila Shenna, Kricheche, Jean-Louis Trintignant
In 1962, change comes to a Tunisian village on the edge of the Sahara. Read More »
The Street Player AKA El harrif (1983) Mohamed Khan, Adel Emam, Fardous Abdel Hamid, Nagah El-Mogui
The life of a football player named Fares who goes through a lot of problems due to his lack Read More »
Kit Kat (1991) Daoud Abdel Sayed, Mahmoud Abdel Aziz, Sherif Mounir, Aida Riyad
Sheikh Hosny is a blind man who lives with his old mother and his frustrated son in the Kit Kat neighborhood. Read More »
The Yellow House AKA La maison jaune (2007) Amor Hakkar, Aya Hamdi, Tounes Ait Ali
Algeria, in the arid landscapes of the Aures Mountains, a little girl named Aya plowing a piece of land. Read More »
Where To? AKA Ila Ayn (1957) Georges Nasser, Laura Azar, Tannous Dik, Shakib Khouri
A family lives poorly in a village in the Lebanese mountain. Read More »