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Al Khataia
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Al Khataia

Nov 12, 1962
A drama plot about a wife trying to balance her husband's love towards their adopted child (sin child of the wife) and their natural child.
Summer 70
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Summer 70

Jan 02, 1971
Full of the youthful energy of the 1970s, this experimental work is an essential entry in the counterculture canon and features a score by Egyptian composer Soliman Gamil.
Drama
Taqasim
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Taqasim

Jan 01, 1999
Taqasim, shot in the streets of Cairo, is a voyage to the hidden treasures of Arabic music and to the participation of Jewish musicians. With stylishly shot music and unforgettable back-ally jams played by Felix Mizrachi, Zehava Ben, Abraham Salman and others, this film brings classical Arabic music raw and captivating.
Documentary
Women Beyond Borders
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Women Beyond Borders

Jan 01, 2003
Acclaimed director Jean Chamoun looks at the lives and works of some of the women who have joined in the fight for their Palestinian homeland. We learn of young resistance fighter Kifah Afifi’s experience as a survivor of the 1982 Shatila massacre in Lebanon when she was just twelve years old. She tells about fighting the Israeli occupation of South Lebanon in the 1990s and of her imprisonment in the Khiam detention facility, which was run by Israel’s auxiliary militia, the South Lebanon Army.
Documentary
Hostage of Time
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Hostage of Time

Jan 01, 1994
When Leila, a young doctor, returns to her village in south Lebanon, she finds it badly damaged after the 1993 Israeli attack. Israeli bombing during this episode razed 50 villages and left half a million civilians homeless, causing a flood of refugees into Beirut. Many of those who fled south Lebanon have not returned, choosing instead to live a scavenging existence in bombed-out buildings in the capital, where they’re out of range of the Israeli-occupied “security zone” in the south. Through Leila’s relationship with her family and the women and children of the surrounding villages, we get to know the hopes and dreams of the people who have remained in south Lebanon as they work to rebuild their homes and their lives.
Documentary
End of Summer
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End of Summer

Jan 01, 1980
a father will travel the next day to the Diaspora that he came from, and tomorrow will get separated again from his son, who should stay in Beirut, where he will live in a boarding school without his parents, His mother had gone years ago, the two feel that the last day of summer, must be special. They go to the funfairs and gardens and then at the end of the day, carrying with him the most beautiful memories.
Drama
The Sheikh's Blessing
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The Sheikh's Blessing

Jan 01, 1998
The film denounces the popular practice of witchcraft. Some impostors are able to deceive the villagers into believing that their Sheikh had murdered one of his disciples after discovering he had an affair with his wife. The Sheikh is driven from the village.
Drama
After Jenin
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After Jenin

Sep 10, 2002
Filming began immediately after the destruction of Jenin Refugee Camp by Israeli forces. The devastation of a desperate people is poignantly portrayed. Images of a harsh reality are prominent - mass burial pits and piles of rubble where homes, businesses and villages once stood. Includes images from Nablus and other West Bank towns invaded by Israel in early 2002.
Documentary
Zeft
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Zeft

Jan 02, 1984
Zeft is the story of a village, of a changing society torn between the background of traditional beliefs and diffuse aspirations for modernity.
Comedy
Wedding of the Moon
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Wedding of the Moon

Jan 02, 1998
Five young men aged about twenty form a tight group of friends. So there is a major panic when one of them, Nabil, dies during a quarrel that gets out of hand. The friends clear away the body and decide to keep silent to the outside world about what happened, but their friendship is tested to the utmost. Then they meet Pierrot and Madonna, two loners who have just met and, as a result of a joke played by the group, get married to each other.
Comedy
Knife
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Knife

Jan 02, 1971
Syrian-Palestinian film The Knife (1971), based on Palestinian revolutionary Ghassan Kanafani‘s novella All That’s Left To You; an allegorical story of Palestinian attachment to land and family, and the sorrow over their loss.
Drama
The Splinter
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The Splinter

Jan 02, 1983
Based on a short story by Ibrahim al-Kawni that deals with the issues of mortality, the film adaptation is used to condemn those who planted landmines in Libyan territory and thus spread death over the landscape long after the end of the war.
Drama
Shalom the Sportsman
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Shalom the Sportsman

Nov 18, 1937
The sandwich seller (Shalom) is surprised that he has inherited a fortune from his aunt who lives in the city of Damanhour, so he decides to travel there. While riding the train, he meets the football player (Sayed) who offers to help him become a player as well. (Kellan) asks (Shalom) to manage the restaurant he owns for him, so (Shalom) decides to manage the restaurant to serve the athletes.
Drama