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The Place is short film about Palestine that calls out the Palestinian suffering and what the people of Sheikh Jarrah neighbourhood are going through right now.

Four filmmakers and videographers were invited by the Beirut Art Center (BAC) to make a short narrative film using only recordings from the 6 security cameras set up in the BAC’s space. During the preparations for these commissions, a heavier reference imposed itself onto the visual imaginaries tied to the CCTV footage, and that is the anticipation of the disaster that rushed into the intimacy of our lives and demolished our shelters.

Her journey that begins as a personal story, ends up being the story of other women who struggle to realize their dreams in a modern society.

For half of his life Nicolas, the director, used the camera as confidant to film his video diary. This intimate film shows the strong and, at time, dysfunctional relationship that binds Nicolas to his mother and sister after the death of his father. His sister gets married and moves away from home leaving the mother face to face with her son. But Nicolas is carrying a fear that she knows nothing about.

Since You Left by renowned actor and director Mohammad Bakri is neither a eulogy to his friend and mentor, the writer and politician Emile Habibi, nor is it an account of the late author's life and work.

An arranged marriage in a cotton-farming village in Sudan. Does 15-year-old Nafisa have a choice?

A group of outlaws decide to makeup for anything bad they do after they have fun doing it.

Aspects of life associated with Lake Manzala.

Directors belonging to the PLO film organisations were barred from entering territories under Israeli administration. Kais Al-Zubaidi sent a West-German film team into the territories occupied in 1967. They talked to Palestinian peasants and refugees and to Israeli settlers. The former have lost their fields and meadows and are to be driven further East from the camps in which they lived since 1948. The latter call their new settlement area “liberated land”.

a movie compiling never before seen film footage of the city of Jeddah, taken with Naamani's personal 16mm camera between 1954 and 1968. The rare collection of footage documents the history of urban transformations that the city went through during the fifties and sixties.

Within a comic framework, Fahad a miser guuy tries to surprise his wife Abeer on her birthday and invites her to go out. Conditions are in his favor when he finds out that someone is trying to stop them from going out. who is he? What does he want?

One woman is disappointed because after having two girls she is pregnant with another baby girl. Her husband wants to marry again.

The story of a young employee who borrows and buys a car, his life changes to fall into many situations because of it

The sun beats down mercilessly on a forgotten village in the mountains of Morocco, where Benocer and his wife Yomno, both in their sixties, live. Thursday is the postman's day and Benocer receives a letter with unbearable news.

After a series of thoughts that we were pleased with, we publish here today on your site the content of Plus, the first episodes of the Ihsan from the Future program for the famous presenter Ahmed Al Shugairi, the dates of the replay, and the date of the presentation of the first and second part of the Ihsan Al Mustakbal program, which preacher Ahmed Al Shugairi returns to MBC screen.

Amal, a young teacher, has been assigned to a remote village, since her arrival she has encountered many problems, mainly the harassed of Haj lwardi, the rich peasant with the power in the village, and who do everything possible so that Amal agrees to marry him, despite the great age difference between them, While amal refuses, Haj wardi insists on pursuing Amal by taking advantage of his power and authority. But Amal succeeded, after a long patience in reaching a solution with Jaafar, a friend of the family who proposed to him to make a white marriage which he exploited to obtain his displacement and to return to his native city Casablanca after the long journey of suffering, but these problems reappear when Jaafar tries to blackmail her in order to obtain a consideration in return for her help.

A nostalgic mother is determined to hang the portrait of her late husband on the wall of her run-down home, despite her life being at stake.

The second film in the RASA Trilogy, RASA KRIDA will offer the viewer a whole new world of sacred imagination. Unparalleled work in the history of contemporary devotional cinema, the film will depict in the most beautiful natural light Lord Krishna's playful essence. Presented in 2K, the film will become an offering to console the soul.

Camera is a breathtaking, Emirati genre movie with a lot of action, drama, and suspense that enthralls your attention from the very first second to the last. It is the horrific, yet fascinating story of 3 friends who found a camera buried in the fiery hot sands of a dessert during an adventure with other friends. Out of curiosity, they sought to uncover the contents of the camera only to find disturbing secrets - a discovery that is soon to become their worst nightmares. FAM Films is an Emirati Local Film Company that has one major goal - to produce world-class localized films like Camera, with the best of the high-level production materials that can be found anywhere in the world

A documentary approach that explores a sensitive subject in a shocking way. Do we investigate the horrors we face in our societies, or stay in denial?

Moving to Beirut’s anarchic rhythm, this documentary follows the struggles of a Palestinian cab driver who lives in his car, a homeless Syrian kid, and a Lebanese woman and her family.

Full of hope, Fahed arrived in England from Algeria back in 2001. Fifteen years later, his dreams of prosperity have evaporated and he finds himself in a midlife crisis, no longer knowing where his home is. Will Fahed, the director's cousin, return to his place of birth?

An invisible woman films her own people during the revolution. This takes place in a country called Syria, between 2011 and 2017.

Quiet Si Radji gets an idea when his screaming and unpleasant wife falls down from the balcony and sprain her foot. He will set up traps...

You are now in the main hall of the National Museum in Beirut. A guard reminds you that you are encouraged to touch the archeological objects. A voice in your headset suggests that you lick the stone. You are now facing a hole in the wall on the lower left corner of a mosaic. The voice in your headset indicates that it was made by a sniper. Out of curiosity, you dial 1-9-9-1 to listen to the rest of the story.

A normal and quiet road trip in which two persons talking about their life until an unusual situation occur and shows their true nature.

Turki is searching for a photo of his father after his family burned all of his photos during the time of photo burning in the eighties.

Story of a young, serious and very assiduous little girl who will feel insecure after a boy's repetitive aggression towards her, the thing that will affect her academic level and her mental stability, which prompted her parents to try to stop the abuse of their daughter, but it is difficult given the cultural level of the boy and his family ...

Omar Belkacemi’s The Wave tells the story of Algerian journalist and writer Redouane, who comes back from Europe to investigate a wave of suicides in his native country during the mass lay-offs of the late 1990s.

Mesteka, a seventy-year old Moslem widow, and Rehan, a sixty-seven year old Christian widower, are neighbours. Their busy children hardly ever visit them now. Mesteka and Rehan get used to monotony, loneliness, and isolation and fashion their lives accordingly,until tragedy gives way to comedy.

The story of two young girls, Janna Ayyad (9 years old), and A'hed Tamimi (14 years old), that live under military occupation in Nabi Saleh, Palestine.

In the early summer of 1976, right-wing militias representing a coalition of ultra-nationalist and counter-revolutionary forces laid siege to the refugee camp of Tall al-Zaatar (“Hill of Thyme”) in Beirut. After holding out for months without food, water, or medical supplies, and under heavy artillery and sniper fire, the camp fell to the militias on 12 August. What followed was one of the worst atrocities of the civil war, with over 2,500 civilians massacred and the camp razed to the ground. Produced after the massacre, but featuring footage shot before and during the siege, Tall al-Zaatar remembers the camp and its community, recounting the long months of siege and resistance, and recalling the horrors of the massacre through the testimony of survivors.

The life of St. Moses the Black

'Ibn al-'Amm' shed light on the eighteen years Riyad al-Turk spent as a political prisoner under Hafez al-Assad, before his son Bashar al-Assad imprisoned him for two years at the beginning of his reign.

After her husband was kidnapped in 1982 during the civil war in Lebanon, Wada Hilwani gathered together the families of the kidnap victims and formed the Committee for the Families of the Kidnapped and Missing. Decades after the end of the war, these families continue their painful search for the truth about their loved ones, and for justice against war crimes.

From the only country in the world with no cinema theaters, a movie young fan crosses borders for the first time ever so he can watch a movie in a cinema for the first time.

The Trace of the Butterfly is the story of people crossing our lives, then leaving, only for us to discover, after a while, that they have not only made a difference in our own lives, but have re-formulated an entire country.

A horror film about an online challenge game that drives teenagers to suicide.

The film tells about the beliefs of African tribes, about where the waters of the Nile come, from the moon or from the fountains of the sun. The film is a historical document, as it is the only documentary film that depicted the recent flood of the Nile before the construction of the High Dam from its sources to its estuary in the context of an epic story from the date of the building of the pyramids and the Temple of Abu Simbel until the construction of the dam.

Northern Morocco. Beginning of the 90s. With his Bac in hand, Rahil decides, against the advice of his family, to continue his studies at the University. There she discovers the growing influence of the Islamists. A handful of union activists are trying to resist. Said, a brilliant student, until then on the sidelines of the movement, decides to conquer it, to throw himself with all his might into the fight ... Fallen under the spell, is Rahil ready to commit in turn?

It's about a loving-life girl who faces many obstacles in her way achieving her dream nevertheless she insists on going on.

Tv series After their father died, Toutou is trying to con his half brother Hafnaoui out of his legal rights to heritage.

For Tunisians, 1978 is forever linked to the memory of the famous national soccer team and its "epic journey to Argentina." It's a myth that marked my childhood, accompanied by an intriguing question: Why did my mother refuse to watch soccer? What if 1978 wasn't just about soccer?

Jean Chamoun and Mai Masri link the stories of four people who are attempting to reconstruct their lives after Lebanon's long and devastating civil war. The film features two ex-militia fighters from Beirut; a woman searching for her missing husband; a playwright from southern Lebanon. Each share their lives and hardships amidst the rubble of their war-torn homeland.

A young Moroccan man returns to his hometown in one of the villages of Souss after an absence of two years that he spent in an illegal situation in France, and he is obliged to search for a way out to settle this situation. The young man, like many of his generation, has to resort to "white marriage" with the intention of solving the problem of residence and stability, so he returns to his homeland accompanied by "Monica", a 65-year-old foreigner, Events accumulate by clashing between two different cultures and two opposing perspectives.

Mounir is a reserved and idle night watchman. On a very lonely night, he finds a strange manner of entering the life of Latifa, his pretty neighbour with whom he is secretly in love. The unusual means will turn him into the secret witness of Latifa's agitated life and will lead him to dangerous extremes of passion.

When Meshari reunites with his former friends, he learns they’ve stolen a car, unaware that it belongs to his father.

Docufiction set in Jeddah, starring Aws, Lily, and Mema, the three children take the lead and freely create their own horror story