Discoveries from Saudi Arabia World Cinema

This documentary is unique from the previous films that dealt with the Corona pandemic, as it raises the issue of the virus that has stoned the entire world and stopped the wheel from the viewpoint of scientists who are currently spending time on the front lines in fighting the virus. From students of his fairy code, through suggested treatments, to vaccines, and their availability soon. The documentary also includes impressive testimonies of the infected survivors and testimonies of relatives who have lost loved ones, giving the film a human look that shows how our lives and human relationships have changed in the time of Corona and his enemy

Through simple collage art, "Alazeef“ conveys the typical life of an Iraqi soldier one week before the 1991 Desert Storm. This nameless soldier has a deep mentality in which he looks through his life and others’ in Baghdad. He dreams and wonders about the United States and their soldiers. The narration, written by Fady Alsaegh, aims to explain the huge war machine through diving in the life of one soldier.

this movie talks about the people who earn their living day-by-day in Cairo.

The sea is the epitome of freedom for the Palestinians. But due to the restrictions on their freedom of movement, a majority of Palestinians have for decades been denied access to the coast. In a simple but original and meaningful way, Martin Johannsen lets his protagonists recount their memories and ideas of the sea with their eyes closed, as if they had fallen into a trance-like dream. The sea becomes a mirror for reflection, where they talk about their relationship to water through living imagery. Some have never forgotten their only encounter with the sea, while others can only fantasise about what it looks like in reality.

A woman arrives in Lebanon in search of a missing man, whom she met in Iceland a few years ago. Here, the buildings and landscapes still bear the traces of past conflicts, and the missing friend's absence is haunting the deserted and labyrinthine streets of Beirut. The siren song of the sea draws her to the south, towards Earth's mystical centre.

Mamdouh, a young man estranged from his father, starts a poultry farm on his secretary's advice. He meets his secretary's sister Aida, a young woman looking for wealth. When he introduces her to the dancer Nousa, she convinces Aida to become a belly dancer.

Visions and scenes of women – celebrated and celebrating – accompanied by an eloquent narrative, all within the atmosphere of a dream.

Faraj al-Aktaa is an accomplice to the Israeli enemy to get rid of the resistance men in Suez.

A collection of heartbreaking tales narrating the violence, discrimination and rejection that many LGBTIQ+ refugees face, co-directed and edited by the survivors themselves.

Ruba grew up in an exiled family and internalized her mother's memories and difficulties. She seeks to deconstruct her memories in order to recreate a new narrative that allows her to face her sense of permanent alienation. But a question remains: is life as attractive when you are no longer a stranger?

Fourteen-year-old Nidal is one of the 4.8 million Syrians who have been displaced by war. Born female, Nidal has identified as a boy since he was nine years old which coincided with their escape from Syria. As his body starts to mature, he is forced to navigate the complexity of his circumstances in the confines of a refugee camp and a culture that cannot comprehend gender fluidity.

The father who aspires to have a boy, but every successor daughters and come a third girl, but grieves and cares for her and not to take the vaccine and sickness of the girl and become paralyzed and grow up and her tragedy and feel herself that she is a pariah of her brothers and her father because they hinder their movements and her groom refuses to marry her and marry her second sister

Sunset Oasis is a short film inspired by the character of Nima for the novel of Bahaa Taher

The film tells the story of a group leader who receives a letter from a friend alerting him to the imminent visit of an inspection committee.

A master of a large factory divides his son Ahmed with the successful engineer who helps him in managing the factory, Ismail who fails in his studies and depends on his father's wealth. The hatred is born inside the heart of Ishmael after the death of their father because of the transfer of the estate to Ahmed before his death for fear of contempt for Ismail and waste of wealth, trying to implicate his sister in the murder of a sister of the factory's agents, but released. Ismail believes he succeeded in killing his brother after Ahmad's car was blown up. Ahmed marries Rasha, whom Ismael loves. Five years later, he decides to marry his cousin, the widow of his brother Rasha, and everyone will be surprised when Ahmed returns after he has regained his memory and faces Ismail with his crimes. Ismael dies in the hands of proper relatives.

This film revolves around a love story from the days of the Umayyad state between a Zahed man and a slave from Makkah called Salameh (with no hesitation), although there is disagreement over whether some of the events of the film actually took place.

Is about a patient father trying to solve the dispute that arose between his parents to come back to life and return his son Hamdi to the house

The play revolves around the subject of justice, the service of law and the love of work through the character of Mr. Sayed, who has been serving as a policeman for thirty-five years. He performed his duty as a man of law to the fullest.

The play revolves around a successful lawyer named Mourad, married to Susann, whom he trusts blindly. Abla comes to visit her friend Sawsan to complain about the actions of her husband, Raafat, the author of the series, questioning her husband's behavior and betraying her. Differences between Murad and Susann after her knowledge of his date with Ismat and events follow in a dramatic drama.

Fairuz "The Story of a Lifetime", it showed a rare interview of her. Her early life, her establishment of as a new star and her relationship with Assi and the family.

Documentary highlighting the blessed Zam Zam water and the management of this sacred drink.

In the prosecution, Jalal Salah is accused of stealing his car, denying Nadia's presence with him in the incident for fear of the oppression of her brother. Jalal sees that he is withdrawing from his car. His statement from the prosecution provided that Salah left the town and his father. At the same time, Hamza Salah is not hiding in his home. He tells him that Jalal is not serious about his relationship with her and her relationship with Hamza is growing. Jalal knows that Salah has not left the town and ordered his men to kill him. Hamza decides to leave the town. At the time, Jalal is able to attack Laila, killing him and handing himself over to the police.

Salah has always been a shepherd. It is a fate that was chosen for him by his parents when he was still a child. Moving constantly between pastures in the mountains and on the plains of the Moroccan Atlas mountains with his family, he has handed down traditions and knowledge to his children, who take care of the herds today. It is a nomadic life made up of sacrifices, fatigue and long journeys through unspoilt landscapes in an often hostile climate. The young people carry out the roles that life has assigned to them, dreaming of moving to the city and awaiting an uncertain future.

This is a film about a simple Emirati family, a mother, father, and son, living in a mountainous area of the Emirates. The film takes place over a single day, a day devoted to the memory of martyrs and reminds us of these memorable moments with family, tradition and memory.

Walid is searching for work. His family's well-being depends on it - wife, son, unborn child... Economic crisis is in full swing.

An experimental short film explores the concept of identity, its limitations and how it is formed Through social and cultural contexts. It also addresses the idea of death As an inevitable event and destiny.

After the Nazi invasion of France in 1940, the pro-Vichy government arrested a group of anti-Nazi rebels and interned them in a detention centre in southern Algeria. Among these exiles at Ein Askar camp in Djelfa was a global intellectual figure who experienced an incident that had a great impact on her life.

The war in Syria is portrayed through the eyes of two children who are attending their first day of school. Their fates intersect.

The artist calls into question his experiences in Beirut by using a cell phone camera as a possible, yet unreliable witness. A diasporic figure at home, he negotiates the overlapping aesthetics of celebration and mourning following a FIFA soccer game and a car explosion that took place simultaneously in the summer of 2014. The piece is an extension of a text-based work published under the title.

The film discusses the wars that have been taken place in Iraq and their reflection on the society represented by the family which is the base of the society. No victory in the war, the killing and loss that is caused by these wars generate more tragedies in a continuous series of disasters, resulting in broken families, more orphans with no clear future in the shadow of a continuing cycle of war that passes from generation to generation in a futile way

A low-income family group, whose members do not speak, suddenly appears in a Cairo neighbourhood, only to be chased away by everyone but one young woman. Will they try to stay?

Some homeless children who live in car park struggle for life.

​"Monopoly" is a 2011 Saudi Arabian short film directed by Bader Alhomoud that delves into the nation's housing crisis through dark comedy. The 22-minute film portrays the struggles of average citizens facing exorbitant land prices and unaffordable housing, highlighting the impact of land monopolization. Featuring insights from economic commentator Essam Al-Zamil, the film underscores the need for policy reforms, such as taxing unused lands, to alleviate the housing shortage. "Monopoly" garnered significant attention upon its release, sparking widespread discussions about housing policies in Saudi Arabia.

Once there was a boy who loved drawing the sea. One day, he dove into the sea, hoping to escape war. However, he was trapped between screens that had appropriated his story. The international media captured Alan Kurdi’s lifeless body on Turkey’s shores. And they never let go.

Shows the ruination of film heritage in Lebanon, navigated through the country’s cinematic heydays in the late 1960s and early 1970s. This period witnessed a rise of Egyptian producers and directors moving to Lebanon to make films partly due to Nasser’s nationalization of Egyptian cinema.

He works as a football coach at Dokki Sports Club but does not succeed in making any significant achievements in his career, which makes Habashi not agree to marry his daughter Osha (Bossi), but he has a last chance .

After an interruption of thirty years. Christian Ghazi resumes his cinematographic work with the documentary "Coffin of the Memory". The film mixes newly shot interviews with archive images. In the interviews it sheds light on two basic issues, solitude and economic situation. Through images and simple daily situations, Christian Ghazi draws a portrait of the Lebanese society, a society drowning in its contradictions and its search for an empty individualism and the superficiality of daily consumption, that of production, ideas, time and space.

This shocking and spectacular short film combines poetry, dance, and film to call attention to the human rights violations in Syria, particularly the war’s effect on women. Impossible to ignore, the stunning cinematography and talented performances demonstrate the economic greed and extortion that accompanies the unending conflict in the Middle East, to which the world turns a blind eye.

The daily life of young child Ali El-Sayed and his family, as they struggle to make a living on the shores of Lake Manzala.

The play is about a man who manages the business of a family that consists of a boy and girl. An accountant that works for him falls in love with his daughter, which makes him stay quiet about the fraud that the father-in-law commits.

“MALAKI - Scent of an Angel” revolves around the families of abducted persons during and in the aftermath of the Lebanese civil war. It sheds the light on the trauma of six different families constantly teetering on the brink of incertitude. Put this way, each family does not know the fate of their abducted family member; whether he is alive or dead. The very premise of the film is humane for it depicts the broken emotional ties within the family away from any political implication. The film combines real interviews within a surreal set on the one hand, and surreal fiction on the other hand. The interviews reveal the family’s reaction towards the abduction of a member. The fiction part is an incarnation of their fantasies; that is, an awaited day of reunion, a recurring dream and a fantasy. The film plays on the notion of blurred reality and fantasies since the families’ reality is unbearable; ultimately, they escape to their dream.