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Anxious that Judgment Day is on the horizon, Amal keenly awaits to hear the Trumpet of Doom; could the incessant mewing of cats in her office be the first harbinger? An eccentric and experimental rumination on the end of days.
Last Friday 12 Sept. 2021 , the Swiss Criminal Court issued its first judgment against Sheikh Ahmed Al-Fahd Al-Sabah, President of the Olympic Council of Asia (resigned from him last Friday), the former Kuwaiti minister and a member of the ruling family, after convicting him of forging a Swiss arbitration award linked to a “fake coup plot.” Al-Fahd tried to promote it to eliminate his political opponents inside Kuwait, namely the former Prime Minister Sheikh Nasser Al-Mohammed Al-Sabah, and the late former Speaker of the National Assembly (parliament) Jassem Al-Kharafi, according to Reuters.
Faisal’s memoirs are the reality of fictional individuals who do not exist. They simply shape the words echoing in their minds onto paper through me. This signifies that their topics are not up for discussion or external solutions. Rather, they are messages with no intended destination.
The events of the film revolve around the event in a place where a hideous murder takes place, in which the victim is killed.
Two contrasting personalities face off in a single job interview, where the smallest details may decide who earns the position.
In post-revolution Libya, a group of women are brought together by one dream: to play football for their nation. But as the country descends into civil war and the utopian hopes of the “Arab Spring” begin to fade, can they realise their dream? And is there even a country left to play for? Freedom Fields is a film about hope and sacrifice in a land where dreams seem a luxury. Through the eyes of these accidental activists we see the reality of a country in transition, where the personal stories of love, struggle and aspirations collide with History.
Siwar weaves a narrative around two families entangled in a fateful revelation about their newborns. The film, spanning three chapters, explores the lives of Yaner, a Turkish father, and Hamad, a Saudi father, navigating societal challenges and personal upheavals.
In a country where corruption has reached epidemic levels, an investigative journalist tries to reveal the corruption of a medical mogul whose corruption caused the death of dozens without blame. Essam has a daughter who has kidney failure and has been affected by the filters made by this mogul's factory. On another front, Essam is in a stale marriage caused by the daughter's sickness and finds himself lured by an attractive seductress. Things become more complicated when the daughter's sickness becomes fatal and he can't cover the expenses of the transplant. Essam is faced with a deep moral question.should he become corrupt himself in order to save his daughter's life? and how can he save his marriage and reputation along the way?
Othman is a security guard at a government hospital’s parking lot, who lives quietly with his cousin Fahd. But things soon take a turn that shakes Othman out of his stupor and forces him to face reality.
After an 82-day separation, Adam travels a rough road to be reunited with the one he loves, whatever it takes.
A veiled Arab woman, steeped in tradition, journeys to London to visit her estranged daughter only to find her living with a black boyfriend..
During an ongoing devastating war, a disabled young orphan tries to put an end to his pain. All of a sudden, paranormal activity shakes the world he lives in.
A stop-motion animation short film.
A man and a woman meet while seeking cover from the rain. The conversation that follows could lead them to a new surprise in life.
She loved mysteries so much that she became one, she used words to say nothing at all, and silence to explain everything, and she smiled her last smile, to so much that had been possible...
Named after the legendary band Les Petits Chats of the cherished era of the 60s and 70s. The six members, who are now major celebrities and musicians, are reunited to perform one last time in a night to remember in spring 2010.
The film revolves around a beautiful young woman married to a wealthy businessman, and a young man married to an older woman, due to their extreme poverty in order to find an opportunity to live in abundance of money.
Once the bars of jail locked behind him, Omar finds himself in confrontation with reality, after spending a lifetime escaping to a world of his imagination, sharing a cell with a major criminal. Upon his cellmate's curiosity, Omar narrates the story of how he came to be the criminal that he is through the scheming impersonation of typical characters found in society. The film sheds light on some true stories that occurred in Saudi society. To escape his cellmate, Omar must carry on one last impersonation attempt to impersonate to escape the bars of jail.
Beginning of January 2011, during the Tunisian revolution, Mohamed, a political prisoner, escapes from jail and returns to his native town Thala. He finds it in the midst of a revolt. He has only one goal: to find his fiancée Hourya. Mohamed is helped in his flight by Belgacem a coalman and former agent of the regime who is hoping to be redeemed. He hides Mohamed in his garage. On the night of January 9th, Mohamed witnesses yet another slaughter. As he carries the dead body of a young man to hospital, a young protestor films him on his cell phone and the video is uploaded on Facebook. Meanwhile, we discover Hourya who lives with her husband, Adel, a quiet man who has accepted her past but forbids her of taking part in any political activity. Hourya who was raped in prison after Mohamed's arrest, believes that Mohamed has died under torture and to save her own life, she accepted to get married to Adel whom she does not love.
Ten-year-old Rabia wants to know why her school has suddenly closed. Rumours are rife in the village and the authorities are no help. Courageously setting out to find the truth, Rabia navigates rural superstitions, local corruption and a wall of silence.
An animated documentary film, based on an actual story of a woman from Damascus countryside. Suleima evokes some of childhood memories, when her thoughts refusing injustice had arisen. The film is a portrait of Suleima, and a monitoring of intellectual and social shifts she experiences during the events. The visual environment: has been presented graphically fully of sharp contrasts, and imaginary mixed with reality.
a silent poetic picture about whatever you want
A series of interviews which try to establish the current role of the woman in the Saudi society in relation with the recent past.
A Fantasy about a "5 L.E" paper that is bored from staying in a treasury and runs
A documentary short about war and football, told against the backdrop of the 1982 and 2014 FIFA World Cups. It tells the story of two former enemies, a bookish Communist and a battle-hardened Christian, who share a love for the Brazilian team despite fighting each other in one of the 20th Century’s most notorious conflicts, the Lebanese Civil War. The film investigates the brutality of war, the beauty of Brazilian football, and the possibility of reconciliation for Lebanon’s «Lost Generation».
Eccomi ... Eccoti unfolds as a virtual road trip navigating between Italy and Lebanon. Conditioned to live in a long-distance relationship with his partner because of strict European visa regulations, the director patches together the shared moments in an attempt to create a possible day-to-day reality for their couple. With a lyrical, ambient soundscape set atop a dreamy, atmospheric visual style that oscillates between still photography and moving images, the film explores what it means to be gay in contemporary Beirut and existential discomfort that blocks one from reaching a sense of complete-ness. Does such in-completeness have to do, in particular, with being gay? Or is it related to a grander malaise endemic to the human condition?
After a man dies in a fatal accident at work, the only compensation offered to the family is the chance for his two sons, Hossam (23) and Maro (12), to be employed in the same factory, side by side with the man responsible for their father’s death.
We Are Not Princesses is a documentary film about the incredible strength and spirit of four Syrian women living as refugees in Beirut as they come together to tell their stories of love, loss, pain and hope through the ancient Greek play, Antigone.
A sweepingly visual, intimately poetic film set against the tapestry of Saudi Arabia's extraordinary textures. THE LAMB is a hero's journey which tests the boundaries of family and tradition, along with the constitution of Faisal, an extraordinary young boy, who goes on a quest to save the soul he loves most in the world: his lamb.
Autism by Salamtak, an awareness-evoking short cinema on how to discover and deal with autism.
Battal has been away from his Saudi office for months. When he returns to work, he finds the work environment has changed completely in his absence. He barely recognises the newly modernised office or his co-workers, who all seem to be new. English is now the primary language of the workplace, which comes as a complete shock. Can he learn to adjust to this new regime? A film that comes to grip with a very real dilemma in today’s Saudi Arabia, where an older generation can be disoriented by the pace of change
Somewhere in the West Bank, Chaim, an Israeli soldier is injured during an accident, losing his memory as a result. When the young man is found wandering lost by a Palestinian villager, he is mistaken for Nasim, a young Palestinian man who has long been disappeared in an Israeli prison.
On her 39th birthday, Saudi presenter Dana faces a major risk, a plastic surgery boy to achieve a professional achievement, but soon finds herself thrown upside down by the consequences of this difference.
Dmitry Kalinin creates something that provides a boost of creative energy to many; he brings to life the boldest ideas and dreams of young engineers, inventors, and craftsmen. This is a stirring film experience about perseverance, overcoming obstacles, success, and creating your own significant business.
A film about a woman who doesn’t exist. Moroccan Hind was raped and consequently denied an official identity – she has no other choice but to work as a prostitute and traditional wedding dancer, but despite the odds of her situation, refuses to give up her dream of dignity, motherhood and love. This is a story of modern day outlaws, children of prostitutes, abandoned child brides and those who have had to escape to the fringes of patriarchal Moroccan society. Through the eyes of one young woman we see a life of constant struggle, but also a life free of the society’s norms and boundaries. The woman in the centre of the film, Hind, is both vulnerable and courageous as she tries to regain her life, her children and her mere right to live as an equal human being in the 21st century.
The Egyptian architect Hassan Fathy talks about his life and work. Footage of Cairo, Gharb Assouan, New Gourna, Kom-Ombo.
A young woman unwittingly picks up a serial killer posing as a stranded motorist on a remote mountain road.
Lemohang Jeremiah Mosese’s This Is Not a Burial, It’s a Resurrection follow-up Ancestral Visions of the Future is described as being “a deeply personal exploration of identity, childhood, and death,” continuing a running theme in Mosese’s work of wrestling with his childhood in Lesotho and his exile to Germany.
A story about the impact of social customs and traditions on the behavior of Egyptian society
The film is a comedy-drama that recounts the story of a family torn between modernity and tradition in Saudi Arabia.
One of Kuwait's very first films. A group of enthusiasts from the Kuwaiti Theatre made a short film in 1968 when filmmaking was not a thing in the region. A story of Arab traditions.
Young Algerian journalist Nedjma is investigating Islamic accounts of paradise. She is particularly interested in the descriptions used by Salafi preachers to recruit young Algerian men as jihadists. She and her colleague Mustapha find a number of disturbing, richly embellished video sermons and decide to explore the phenomenon in more detail.
Over the course of a few decades, three generations experience life, economic and societal changes in the Saudi capital.
It’s a typical morning in Cairo, and a clash erupts on a one-way street in a crowded neighbourhood. An angry face-to-face confrontation between two car drivers erupts, an apoplectic male driver screams at a frightened determined female driver. Who will win this battle of wills?
The Egyptian comedy play Two in the Air, which deals with the story of two friends who form a robbery gang who fall into many strange paradoxes and comedic events
The film tells a story speaks of "Yusuf ", a plumbing Man, who is exposed to many pranks by his friends.
A poor boy whose slippers are broken tries to repair them while watching a rich boy continuously cleaning his new and shiny shoes.
Atil, born without arms, living in the care of his father, Noah, who lost his wife to drowning in the river. Jimana, came to Noah after putting an end to the life of her stepfather, the tribal elder, who raped her, forcing the three parties into the path to escape the dock with a murder.
Amid the tumult of the Arab Spring in Cairo, vendors in a small souk observe the political upheaval while seeking to preserve an ancient tradition of fabric making.
A parody of James Cameron's Titanic
Three lives collide and go over the dark side.
For a film based on a fictional folk story in the world of Thousand and One Nights about Aziza, an orphan, who lives in her uncle's house and grows up with her cousin in a house, and after reaching the age of marriage, the family decides to marry them, but Aziz disappears on the wedding night, on the way home, She saw a beautiful woman who took possession of her mind and took possession of her heart, which affected her relationship with aziza.