Suliman Elnour
, 1978
, 19 min
Suliman Elnour’s graduation film Wa Lakin Alardh Tadur (It Still Rotates) depicts everyday life in a school in South Yemen. A number of these schools were created by the socialist regime specifically for the children of bedouin communities where they learned a variety of skills and subjects including music and critical thinking. The film also…
Eltayeb Mahdi
, 2022
, 85 min
Synopsis In December 2018, the Sudanese people took to the streets in wide protests and demonstrations against the oppressive al-Bashir regime. On April 6th 2019, the protestors staged a sit-in in front of the Sudanese army headquarters in Khartoum that was met with excessive force by militarized troops. Days later, on April 11, 2019, al-Bashir…
, 1977
, 17 min
Al Dhareeh (The Tomb), is Eltayeb Mahdi’s graduation project from the High Institute of Cinema in Cairo. It tells the story of an imposter who claims the power to heal people. Based on real events that occurred along the Nile river in Sudan during the 1960s, the film reflects the popularity of religious imposters in…
Basma al-Sharif
, 2013
, 24 min
Synopsis:Home Movies Gaza introduces us to the Gaza Strip as a microcosm for the failure of civilisation. In an attempt to describe the everyday of a place that struggles for the most basic of human rights, this video claims a perspective from within the domestic spaces of a territory that is complicated, derelict, and altogether…
Arab Loutfi
, 1993
, 25 min
Synopsis:Jamila’s Mirror deals with the memories of Palestinian female guerilla fighters, currently in their forties, who were involved in military operations during their teen years.
Mustafa Abu Ali
, 1973
, 13.43 min
Synopsis:A rare film by the legendary filmmaker Mustafa Abu Ali, one of the founders of the Palestine Film Unit, the first filmic arm of the Palestinian revolution. Shot by a French news team, the footage was edited by Mustafa in Lebanon to produce one of the earliest films on the occupied territory in Gaza. Scenes…
As Egypt sinks further into poverty, new cities are being erected across the country and prisons fill with dissenting opinions. Since it is currently not possible to safely speak about this: a ventriloquist, songs, and advertisements describe a seemingly bygone era of fascism.
Mary Jirmanus Saba
, 2017
, 99 min
In her directorial debut, Mary Jirmanus Saba deals with a forgotten revolution, saving from oblivion bloodily suppressed strikes at Lebanese tobacco and chocolate factories. These events from the 1970s, which held the promise of a popular revolution and, with it, of women’s emancipation, were erased from collective memory by the country’s civil wars. Rich in…
Meriem Bennani
A playful and moving portrait of some women in Morocco. Evoking reality television, home video, and ethnographic film, its visual language is at once intimate and whimsical, with the director’s digital manipulations by turns amplifying and undermining her subjects’ self-presentations. Bennani’s women discuss love and romance, dating and friendship, loneliness and community, all set against…
Mohamed Soueid
, 2020
, 170 min
Soueid’s magnus opus, a gargantuan flux that is both timeless and multi-temporal, THE INSOMNIA OF A SERIAL DREAMER amalgamates the past into the present (“a present in the past tense”), and from the schizophrenic streets of Beirut opens onto the world: the world that a Middle East Airlines captain has traveled and now remembers from his patio…
