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- A medical examiner under pressure in a provoking case where Denmark is indicted for war crimes.
- A quintet is an omnibus feature told from the perspective of five international up and coming filmmakers who are searching to find identity in the modern world.
- A TV feature Doc. series presented by Ms. Maha Awad featuring Arab life in America and the connections to the Middle East. The focus is about Hip-hop, and how it can not be categorized a just a music genre - its influence on society can be felt in fashion, street art, dance and revolutions. According to culture experts, hip hop has grown so much as a popular culture with an influence that cannot be ignored and with artists taking the lead as civil and political leaders.
- KAFA, Lebanese association against Violence and Exploitation, launches a film about the new Law that allows the violated person to have full protection from the government.
- The lamb borrows the wolf's mask for bravery. Exposing one's true feelings is never an easy task. The son chooses to confront his ex-militant father, he wants to know, he wants to be sure: "Who are you Daddy? I need to know... Murderer or Hero?" An intimate open letter, sent out from generation to generation, thus setting a pathway for an intriguing confrontation. "The truth hurts, but silence kills."
- A family of four generations in their house in the Lebanese mountains. A dog. What does it mean to live in war that constantly changes features and never ends? What does it mean to care for a family in such a situation? Which values do you teach your children? What is society in a civil war? Or the nation?
- False Alarm tells the story of Syria today. It is the story of a country that has lost its revolutionary spirit and was overpowered by its own multiplicity. It is a Documentary about revolution, exile, death, hope, victory and defeat. Told by young Syrians, filming each other's journeys and holding on to their cameras like they were the only proof of existence, it is a story about a country that has become unrecognizable to its own inhabitants. The Documentary follows them through the laughter and the tears, until it is no longer clear whether they are happy to have found their freedom or sad that the revolution no longer resembles them.
- Three estranged childhood friends (Omar, Ramy, Jay), travel on a road trip from Abu Dhabi to Beirut in memory of their lost friend. If what happens en route doesn't make them crazy, it might just bring them closer.
- When the bomb comes the first thing we do is to run away, later we remember and think of everything we left behind. We did not bid farewell to our homes, memories, photos, identities and life that passed. It is about how homes haunt the life of the souls that were living in them, as much as they themselves haunt the houses.
- "Selling my land in my "Christian village" to a Muslim has taken me on a journey into present-day territorial and demographic fears between Lebanon's communities. These fears perpetuate past traumas generated from massacres and displacements, which were perpetrated along sectarian lines during the Civil War. Since the war ended in 1990, land transactions are completing what the war did not achieve: dismantling the country into sectarian enclaves."
- Three students Ramzi, Sam and Sahar sent by their psychology teacher Nour to a Lebanese village Ain AL Jen to investigate a series of supernatural activities.
- Exiled artist and poet Mustafa embarks on a journey home with his housekeeper and her daughter; together the trio must evade the authorities who fear that the truth in Mustafa's words will incite rebellion.
- Every year, thousands of Shia gather in the small town of Nabatiyyeh, Lebanon, to commemorate the death of Imam Hussein, killed in battle 1433 years ago. They proceed to very long processions, flagellation and self-mutilation, and thrive to reenact the martyrdom of Imam Hussein with their own blood and flesh. MYSTIC MASS documents the ceremony, and provides an exhaustive description of how the mass is formed, how it attains its highest mystical levels, and how it dissolves - all within 24h.
- The issues of extremism and social prejudice through the scope of sexism and gender equality.
- An investigation into the validity of the Exodus.
- After a violent breakup with Saeid, a prominent politician's son, (played by Nadim Lahham), Jihan Nasr (played by Yara Fares) will stop at nothing to bring Saeid and his father, Minister Refaat, down (played by Micheal Tabet) and expose their corruption. She is further aided by a journalist (Stephany Ghafary) and buys some insiders. But elections are near and the Minister will apply all means to suppress her and her friends.
- A look at first-hand video accounts of violence in modern-day Syria as filmed by activists in the besieged city of Homs.
- Nigol Bezjian highlights the struggles and brave resilience of a group of Syrian refugees who have escaped to Lebanon. Leaving everything behind, the community faces daily challenges to make ends meet and find some sort of security. Bezjian's artistic vision allows for their stories to be told through song and poetry.
- THE DREAM OF SHAHRAZAD is a feature-length documentary film that brings together the famous story collection THE 1001 (or "ARABIAN") NIGHTS with recent political events in Egypt, Turkey and Lebanon... Description The "Arab Spring" of early 2011 was a momentous global event, raising great hopes for anyone interested in the forward march of humanity. No one, however, is yet sure about the meaning or consequences of these events... THE DREAM OF SHAHRAZAD is a feature-length documentary film which locates the Egyptian revolution - and also recent political changes in Turkey and Lebanon - within a broader historical and cultural framework: that of storytelling and music. More particularly, it looks at the legacy of the famous collection of stories known as THE 1001 (or "ARABIAN") NIGHTS. Weaving together a web of music, politics and storytelling, the film follows a series of unforgettable characters, all of whom draw their inspiration from the NIGHTS and whom, like Shahrazad - the storytelling princess in the NIGHTS who saves lives by telling stories - puts creativity to new political use... A young female Turkish violinist travels to Istanbul, where a charismatic conductor uses Rimsky-Korsakov's SCHEHERAZADE suite as a tool for political education, leading up to a final performance at Istanbul's Topkapi Palace. A young Lebanese woman makes peace with her past by learning the art of storytelling in Egypt. An older visual artist who is obsessed with THE NIGHTS finds his "dream of Shahrazad" manifesting through the appearance of a beautiful young storyteller. Members of a Cairo theatre troupe meet with the mothers of martyrs of the January 25 Revolution and turn their testimonies into new storytelling performances... This richly kaleidoscopic film is at once observational documentary, concert film, political essay and visual translation of an ever-popular symphonic and literary classic. It is a documentary homage to THE NIGHTS, to the SCHEHERAZADE suite, and to the role of a rich historical and creative legacy within huge current political change.
- After he completed his mandatory military service, the filmmaker was held in retention as the revolution unfurled in his country. His military rank was that of a sergeant. During these times, he would go back to his home, located in the middle of Damascus city, take off his military uniform and return to his normal life, working as an assistant director with the filmmaker Mohammed Malas. To make sense of this schizophrenic situation, he decides to take his camera and start shooting a 'making-of' that will eventually go beyond Malas' film.
- Tarik, a cross-dressing troubadour who performs traditional dances and shunned by those around him. Crippled by inertia, he is unable to feel emotion even when faced with the man who killed his family. Larbi, the family horse who pulls the cart on which Tarik dances, won't take another step. And word has it the drinking water has been contaminated. And Tarik's false persecution as a homosexual where homosexuality is still palimpsest and a criminal offense.
- After surviving a car crash in the middle of Lebanon's isolated Beqaa Valley, an amnesiac man finds himself held hostage on a local farm that doubles as an illegal drug-production facility.
- Explores the last 70 years of Palestinian politics in the life of Dr Elias Shoufani, leader of the Palestinian Liberation Organization, academic writer and radical leftist intellectual.
- In a remote and poor village, three girls decide to change their destiny. They plan to rub a truck assuming its loaded with cash.. but what they never imagined is found in the truck and this changes their village and own lives forever.
- There are 16,000 Lebanese victims of enforced disappearance and arbitrary detention in Syrian prisons and Lebanese territories since the start of Lebanese civil war in 1975. Their families are still in search for them.
- Single, Married, Divorced (Yalla 3a2belkon) is a social comedy about four women in their late 30's who have to face the pressure of the society for being singles.