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- DirectorAhmed RashwanFrom January 25 to May 27, 2011, the film tracks four months of the Egyptian revolution as seen through the director's eyes. January 25 is the beginning, but May 27 is not the end - because the revolution continues.
- DirectorKawthar YounisStarsKawthar YounisMokhtar YounisMokhtar, 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.
- DirectorJustin Kramer'The hell of the mountain is better than the heaven of the government.'
- DirectorAhmed Ismaiel NourStarsAhmed GhazaliAhmed Ismaiel NourHala RamiSuez city is the birthplace of the 2011 January revolution. The director looks back to the history of this port city since the 80's.
- DirectorEmadeldin ElsayedStarsMohanned GalalThe Lurker tells the story of Mohannad, who decided to lurk inside the thugs and pro-Mubarak groups to know their plans to attack the revolutionary demonstrations against the military regime using hidden cameras.
- DirectorAhmed Fawzi SalehChildren working in a deadly profession, but they are trying to live. Do they succeed?
- DirectorGarry KeaneAndrew McConnellStarsDana AbedA beautiful portrait of everyday Gazan citizens, leading meaningful lives beyond the rubble of perennial conflict.
- DirectorMohamed Ulad-Mohand
- DirectorHamid BenamraStarsMustapha BoutadjineSalah TeskoukTommie SmithYou don't need a gun to be a rebellious cinematographer, but you need to be a witness on your history.
- DirectorFelisa JiménezStarsAuthman Abdullah Authman BeidhoboMahdi Khamis Naseeb SaidMohammed Salem AbdullahThe ancient island of Socotra is filled with natural beauty, much of which is also in the hidden talent of a folk culture seen nowhere else in the world. Introduced by the verses and Tenothir of a local poet: Authman Abdullah Authman Beidhobo, we follow the lives and testimonies of both fishermen and a family of Bedouin goat herders. Communing with their past, the documentary explores the social changes that have come to the remote Yemeni Island in recent years.
- DirectorBaz ShamounStarsAliAsiaRayanAsia, Rayan and Ali find themselves imprisoned in their homeland, Iraq, because of the Western invasion. With their lives shattered and in a country where violence and religious war pose a threat to their health and well-being.
- DirectorRania AjamiStarsRania AjamiMuammar GaddafiFatima ElalemThe documentary investigates the phenomenon of Qaddafi's elite female bodyguard corps and the tensions these women embody: tensions between Islam, modernisation in a nomadic society, a militarist feminism and an urban dictatorship.
- DirectorAbbas FahdelStarsMowafak Abed-SalihAbbo AssiyaSolange BillardelloLiving in exile in France for the past 25 years, Abbas Fahdel last year made Retour à Babylone, the occasion to return home, be reunited with his childhood friends and explore a reality that was now alien to him. In this film, Fahdel's camera shows us Iraqis in another light and the hopes and fears of these men and women who escaped the nightmare of a dictatorship only to be mired in chaos. He is better equipped than anyone for this task. He is both an "outside" angle of vision and a brotherly view. An Iraqi among Iarqis, he embodies a reference point in the turmoil. His presence and commitment during the past year, his receptivity during those months when everyone was preparing for war explains why his camera is never indiscreet or prying.
- DirectorSoudade KaadanAhmad is a Syrian child who doesn't want to remember that he is Syrian. Half traumatized, half trying to escape his reality, he prefers to be silent and asleep. In his silence and refusal to talk, he takes us in a journey where individual and collective Syrian memories collapse.
- StarsAli MulaNissrine HatoumMohammed Reda CurdiIn this groundbreaking TV series, ISIS defectors from Iraq, Syria, Lebanon and Morocco reveal why they joined, what they did, and why they decided to risk their lives to escape from the world's most dangerous terrorist organization.
- DirectorMichal GoldmanStarsTawfik BadawiVirginia DanielsonAmal FahmyShe had the musicality of Ella Fitzgerald, the public presence of Eleanor Roosevelt, and the audience of Elvis Presley. Her name was Umm Kulthum, and she became a powerful symbol, first of the aspirations of her country, Egypt, and then of the entire Arab world. Born a peasant at the turn of the century, she became a woman of great wealth and power, confidant of presidents and kings, and above all, President Gamal Abd al-Nasser's unofficial ambassador in the region. Four million people were on the streets of Cairo for her funeral in 1975. To this day, her cassettes outsell every other Arabic female vocalist. Narrated by Omar Sharif, Umm Kulthum, A Voice Like Egypt is the first documentary to bring Umm Kulthum to an American audience. The film puts her life in the context of the epic story of 20th century Egypt as it shook off colonialism and confronted modernity. The camera explores her astonishing connection with her audience, taking us into her village in the Nile Delta, and into the cafes, markets, and streets of Cairo where she lived and worked. From the Nobel laureate Naguib Mahfouz to a 12-year-old girl in an outdoor restaurant, people speak about the role Umm Kulthum's music has played in their lives, and sing their favorite songs for the camera.