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A Moroccan citizen named Mansour emigrated abroad for more than twenty-five years during which he left his wife carrying a daughter, suffering after that from the torment of conscience to leave his daughter, so he decides to return to his country and compensate his daughter for depriving her, without knowing his truth
A musical comedy about the life of a man exposed to a financial crisis that led him to try to force his niece to marry a rich man despite her love for a poor man.
A screenwriter and a director are working on a film about Sara, a Palestinian girl in one of Gaza's refugee camps, who is a victim of an "honour killing". The screenwriter is unable to write an ending that is both compelling and fictitious - the happy ending that he had hoped for. Meanwhile, the director, who is insistent on upholding the truth, is as keen to end his film, as he is to help his friend, who is deeply affected by Sara's story. The film presents the different sides of Gaza, whose people are hurt by everyday issues as much as by death.
Firas al-Rayyes is the son of MP Walid al-Rayyes.
A young couple, Jana and Sami, prepare a religious ritual so that Jana can get in contact with her late friend.
Icflix presents the first Arabic film to portray the story of HIV and its impact on the social settings of those infected with the disease. This movie explores the life of an HIV patient Yousef as he tries to reclaim the life he once had.
When filmmaker Mai Masri returned to her hometown of Nablus after a fourteen year absence, she discovered a new generation of Palestinian fighters: the children of the Intifada. Winner of the Award of Public at the Freminin Pluriel Festival, Children of Fire captures their courageous story on film and paints a daring portrait of the Palestinian uprising.
A documentary that highlights the role played by artist Adel Emam in conveying his messages about the political and social issues that Egypt went through over more than 60 years during his artistic career.
The film shows how creators struggle between using new technology and keeping their ideas original
In Bahraini culture and traditions, the Good Omen is the act of hanging the "thobe al-nashal," a woman's traditional dress, usually reserved for important celebrations, over the roof of one's home as the joyous announcement of the return of a family member from travel, or a long absence.
After his marriage is over, Sultan is desperate to meet his daughter. The unlikely discovery of a puppet, Sadeya, sets a plan in motion. He brings her to life, and reaches his daughter with its help. But one day, the puppet leaves him.
The strange teacher began his life poor, and the methods of theft and manipulation and fraud to become rich as a trader in savings to be able to rent a large factory, and turns to the unjust and greedy and loves a beautiful girl and marry her after stipulating him to write part of his wealth, Saber poor young handsome teacher is treated by a strange operator in his factory and rent a room for him. At the top of the floor of his building where he falls in love with Azza, who lives with her father in the next room, which exchange the love of the naughty, and also approached him as the wife of the teacher strange, and tries to lure him, but refrain from Abba
A Saudi film that portrays loneliness, alienation, and personality change in a silent, subtle way.
The story revolves around an Egyptian citizen who is believed to be a descendant of the well-known Holy Prophet (Mursi Abu Al Abbas), the owner of the famous mausoleum in the city of Alexandria, but he discovers that his origins are Moroccan. He travels to Morocco in a search for his family and identity, In Morocco).
The film tells the story of a man in his fifth decade called Jaafar, who earned a large fortune by exploiting the rich widows, where he marries them and steals their money before passing to another victim, hiding his evil behind his status and its false authority. His latest victim is an elderly woman named Mona who gained a lot of wealth after the death of her husband and lives with her son who is in his late thirties, and after Jaafar took Mona to write all of his properties in his name, he started a new relationship with a young girl and started the same tricks to get rid of Mona the elderly, which made her life an unbearable hell. Will the Jafar plan succeed or fail this time?
Kaltoum is a 15-year-old girl who is forced to work in a nightclub in Casablanca, Morocco to pay for a medical operation for her little brother. to her dismay she discovers the cruel world, that of the city's nightlife.
Motivated by the public rape of her best friend in the streets of Cairo, the Director uses her camera as her weapon against sexual harassment and embarks on a journey of self-awakening as she confronts her own haunting past.
Said and Amine are two students from Casablanca dreaming of Europe. They end up in a small village in the North of Morocco. With the help of the schoolteacher, they leave for the European coast on board a small boat. They are shipwrecked. The sea washes Amine back onto the coast of the village. Said is washed away on a Spanish beach. Spain seems strange to Said. And in the Moroccan village, Amine notices strange things happening...
A Kasha is a universal offbeat love story set in a time of civil war - but the war is in Sudan and it is happening right now. We follow Adnan, an AK47-loving rebel, his long-suffering love interest, Lina, and the armydodging Absi, over a fateful 24 hours in a rebel-held area of Sudan.
In Mondial 2010 Lebanese artist Roy Dib presents an impossible love story between two men. His is a road movie that explores the institutional borders of the modern day Middle East.
A man called for a fake trip to Dream Island and succeeds to fraud 6 young people into his plans and things turn to an unexpected way.
After “Letter From a Time of Exile”, the director is back in Lebanon where he discovers that his dreams about his country are an illusion and that the exile in your homeland is by far the worst exile. Programmer's Note: Borhane Alaouié returns to Beirut from his exile. His documentary film constitutes a new letter at the start of the 21st century in reply to the letters of the 1980s. The reconstruction process appears to affect stones more than people.
Interviews with six of the mass murderers from Sabra and Shatilla. The faces are in black and are not identifiable.
The film is adapted from Tawfiq al-Hakim's short philosophical story, “I am Death " about Khaled, a young man who suffers from an existential crisis, commits suicide by drowning. A girl called Hayat tries to save him, and he finds himself in an interrogation about the reasons.
The unexpected encounter of a young man who lost his family with a one-eyed old man.
In this documentary film, Malas explores the life and music of the classical Aleppan singer and composer Sabri Moudallal (1918-2006). "Maqam" is the melodic system of traditional Arabic music.
In Morocco, during the coronavirus lockdown, dozens of LGBTQ people are exposed on the internet, facing prison time. For Muhammad, coming out to his family is not an option.
Mokhtar, a filmmaking professor, receives an unexpected gift on his 75th birthday from his daughter Kawthar, a filmmaker in her early twenties. With two plane tickets to Rome, they set out in search of his long lost love - Patrizia - the woman he promised to return to thirty-three years ago. Being filmed unknowingly throughout the trip, Mokhtar's raw emotions are captured by his daughter's hidden camera. As voyeurs to this quest for love, we are immersed in the lives of the father and daughter, and the triumphs and tribulations they experience during their trip.
Jealous, racist, greedy, vengeful and desperate, the villagers of Reunion Island place their fate in the hands of a sorcerer, Monsieur Caron, whose son suffers from a mysterious curse and whose only remedy is a very special offering.
Libyan film based on a work by Ahmad Ibrahim al-Faqih. The film's events revolve around an Arab woman, her status and varying roles, examined through a historical evocation of the poet Layla al-'Amiriya.
The film was produced following the defeat of the Egyptian army in the 1967 war. It is seen by some critics to be the first Egyptian experimental documentary.
Imagine that your father is a Palestinian Arab, and he had fought against Franco in the Spanish Civil War. Imagine that you have siblings, and you cannot talk to them because you do not speak the same language. Imagine that you have a family, but you were raised without parents... The film reveals the extraordinary story of a Palestinian family.
In the aftermath of a tragedy a grieving mother visits the site where her son was killed. There she encounters the young boy's restless spirit, unable to make sense of his surroundings. This brief encounter will finally put the boy's spirit to rest, allowing him to join the other victims in the afterlife.
Six-year-old Ahmad doesn’t want to remember that he is Syrian. He recently lost his older brother to the war in Syria, and now lives with his family in a Lebanese refugee camp. Traumatised, overwhelmed, disengaged, he prefers to be silent. Director Soudade Kaadan’s patient observation accompanies Ahmad, as he recovers a sense of childhood lightness despite his grief. Amid endless images of violence, the film poses a question about the future, and in Kaadan’s words, “explores the impossibility to verbally express what is happening in Syria now.”
On a Mediterranean shore, a Syrian father's decision to give his daughter a better life puts her in danger of losing it.
A remake of Layla and the Wolf story, aka "Little Red Riding Hood".
In a traditional souk, women strive to find a spot for themselves to earn a living, in spite of the numerous daily challenges they face.
Gazans have been living under siege for four years. After the closure of all crossing points from Egypt into Gaza, they were forced to dig tunnels under the border town of Rafah to provide a lifeline to their families. So far, Israeli air raids have killed over 400 Gazans working in these tunnels, even post-graduate students. Today, as digging develops and tunnels are now able to accommodate cars, working in them has become even more dangerous.
A comedic comic play about marriage and wives in a comic framework
A Saudi pianist who struggles the prevention of his musical talent and die before the rebirth of art in Saudi Arabia.
A naive eastern farmer reevaluates his position towards his emotional, spiritual, and financial heritage when he deals with a dilemma brought to him from the metaphysical world.
After a long wait, Samir Bu Shibrain got the interview opportunity he had always dreamed of in a prestigious company. Unfortunately on that day, Samir's life is turned upside down and makes him the focus of unwanted attention... because of a cold cup of coffee.
Director’s brother, Mustapha, disappeared for almost one year. He cut any contact with us, his family that lived then in fear and distress. One evening, after his long absence, the mother received a phone call. He had settled down in the Madrasa Nahlia, a Koranic school of religious teaching in the mountains, 90 km from Marrakech. Through a monologue in the form of a letter, the director dialogues with his brother, remembering their childhood and observing the simplicity, austerity and serenity of the madrasa.
A sniper who lives alone on a country’s border shooting refugees attempting to cross, one day finds a tape of his victim’s war diary and begins to listen to it.
Simple and quiet moments in the life of an elderly Lebanese couple who are following the madness and chaos of the 2011 Egyptian revolution through their TV set.
Our bodies store memories. The body does not forget. A childhood in Damascus, OCD, the revolution, falling in love with a woman. My body remembers, it keeps the trauma. And after all the losses, I had to start listening to my body.
A journey into a strange new world. Director Qamar Abdulmalik relies on collective memories of advertisements, familiar yet artificial, to create the atmosphere of a “dream”. In that space, he renders the complex realities of nationality, country, and home.
One fatal crash snuffs out a young light, fading Abdullah’s life to gray and trapping him in a suffocating maze of mirrors, where his own buried demons are the ones haunting him… A gripping story drawn from reality.
A stop-motion animation short film.