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2) Martyr
Language
Arabic
Formats
Description
For Hassane, a young man from an impoverished neighborhood, life has stopped making sense. All he has left is a close group of friends, brought together by a shared sense of marginalization and hopelessness. Hassane’s strange sudden drowning at Beirut’s rocky shore sparks a mob procession and strips apart the bond of youth and friendship, forcing his friends to grapple with loss and powerlessness, and with the cold heavy truth of their friend’s...
Language
Français
Description
Murielle and Mounir fall in love and have children, as so many couples do. Unlike other couples, however, they give over the control of their family by living with Mounir's rich adoptive father. It seems as if everything is going well, but underneath it all, Murielle is suffocating.
Series
Language
Arabic
Description
The story revolves around Hassan, who is studying Arabic calligraphy from a grand master. Coming across a fragment of manuscript, Hassan goes in search of the missing pieces, believing that once he finds them, he will learn the secrets of love. With the help of Zin, a lovers go-between, he meets the beautiful Aziz, Princess of Samarkand. After encountering wars, a battle between false prophets and an ancient curse, he learns that an entire lifetime...
9) At the zoo
Language
Arabic
Description
"At the Zoo with Nour and Fares is a colorful introduction to the zoo, in this case, Al Ain Zoo in the United Arab Emirates. The film will take your child on an exciting adventure visiting the hippos, kions, and even the animals from the Arabian peninsula. Learn about why flamingos are pinl and the difference between male and female lions. Trivia, catchy songs, live footage and interviews make this film very entertaining and informative especially...
Language
Dargwa
Description
A dozen years after his Oscar-nominated Iraq in Fragments, American documentarian James Longley delivers a sweeping, profoundly compassionate group portrait of Afghan students and teachers still weathering national turbulence. The film follows students and teachers at a school in an old neighborhood of Kabul that is slowly rebuilding from past conflicts. Interweaving the modern history of Afghanistan with present-day portraits, the film offers an...
11) Foreign body
Language
Arabic
Description
"A young woman (Sarra Hannachi) flees from Tunisia to France after informing on her brother, an Islamist radical. Adrift in a new country, she seizes on an opportunity to work for a glamorous widow (Hiam Abbass), and is uncertain how to respond when one of her brother's friends (Salim Kechiouche) shows a romantic interest in her. Timely as it is, Foreign Body seems to typify a media narrative of forced mass migration: desperate, distressing, impossible....
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