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- An archaeological team attempts to unlock the secrets of a lost pyramid only to find themselves hunted by an insidious creature.
- A Moroccan fisherman sets off on an epic journey towards Europe on his wind surfboard. But the pursuit of dreams does not come without sacrifice.
- The life and toils of Jesus Christ, depicted as written in the gospel of John. Narrated in English, following the New International Version of the scripture, while the actors speak in Aramaic.
- Amir and his friends robbed a bank, but he had another plan, he chose to escape with the money to a village in the desert where he got to cope with a gang controlling the village.
- Afshin Ghaffarian risks everything to start a dance company amid his home country of Iran's politically volatile climate and the nation's ban on dancing.
- Football seen through the eyes of directors from several parts of the world.
- Friends and family reflect on the life and death of 21-year-old Matthew Shepard, who was murdered in a targeted homophobic attack in Wyoming in 1998.
- a man with full memory lost finds himself between a woman who claims to be his wife and an intelligence agent who claims that she is not.
- On his clandestine journey from Cameroon to Europe through the Sahara desert, Léonard meets Hope, a Nigerian girl who's following the same dream.
- A man in search of his brother and a young girl in search of a home, both running toward an unknown future. One finds freedom, the other death.
- Yassine El Idrissi is trying to make a graduation film for his Masters degree. He wants to shoot an Iranian style movie in Morocco, because he loves Iranian cinema. He enlists the help of a novelist, Rachid, and a theatre teacher, Hussein. Together they take a journey to look for locations and a cast for his film, entitled 'National Day', about a village that doesn't have flags on an important national holiday.
- Through simple and true stories, we are going to tell you the story about a changing and developing Morocco. We are going to meet nine Moroccan citizens and follow them through their daily routines. Using our cameras, will allow us to discover and witness their lives, their world. They are going to share with us their working conditions, their joy of life and the peace they feel in within. They are going to allow us enter their personal space and bubble. Theirs relatives and close surrounding (parents, colleagues, children) are going to testify to ultimately let us see through the happiness of these people, happy to be who they are, and especially proud to be Moroccans. For each story, each Moroccan citizen is related more or less directly to a part of Morocco's history and transformation. With each life, unique in its way, we will discover a different Morocco. There are different ways of living and being Moroccan today. Our protagonists tell us about their everyday life and their aspirations. Through these different lives, experiences and professions, the camera will only be a passive witness to the evolution of our country in the 3rd Millennium. It is difficult, if not almost impossible, to discuss each point of evolution or creation implemented here in Morocco, as they are so many. But one thing is for sure, every Moroccan, where he lives, feels and can testify to Morocco's development making it a country filled with hope and opportunities. A Morocco for a better future, as Morocco today is developing like no other.
- 1964, after the death of his father, for which he feels guilty, Lahcen decides to leave his native village in the Moroccan Atlas to start over a new life in Tangier. He works as a nurse with his friend Omar. Nothing seemed to look awkward until Omar tries to involve Lahcen into a suspicious case of organ trafficking. Tired of the psychological influence of Omar, Lahcen, seeking redemption, ends up heading back to his village where he could meet back his inner peace. 40 years later, Lahcen is arrested for an alleged trafficking in Tangier. To clear his father Ali, undertakes a journey through the past of his father. During his quest, he will cross the path of Said, the brother he never thought he had.
- The film tells the story of a small mining village in Morocco's Khouribiga Region, and the changes it goes through between 1921 and 1947. During this period, the town changes quickly from an agricultural to an industrial community, and sees an influx of people coming from other regions of Morocco because of the mining boom, as well as miners from other countries.
- THE LAND BETWEEN offers an intimate insight into the hidden lives of Sub-Saharan African migrants living in the mountains of northern Morocco. For most, their dream is to enter Europe by jumping a highly-militarized barrier into Melilla, a Spanish enclave on the African continent. With unique and unprecedented access, this film documents the everyday life of these migrants trapped in limbo, as well as the extreme violence and constant mistreatment they face on a daily basis from both the Moroccan and Spanish authorities. It also explores many universal questions, including how and why people are prepared to risk everything, including their life, to leave their country, their family and friends, in search of a new and better life.
- 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.
- Chris has been traveling for 5 years. When he moves in with his brother he soon discovers he's not the only one running from his problems. This Is Not Happening is a middle-class drama about decidedly middle-class problems, a la Joanna Hogg or Lena Dunham. When Chris returns he brings the denial of his parents' death with him, but we soon discover he's not the only one in denial. Ultimately, everyone involved must confront the issues they've been running from for years. A performance led film with a distinctive visual style. European in tone but grounded in middle class England. The film explores a group of people who try to ignore their problems, but who in the end find their problems are impossible to deny.
- Since Mimou was seven years old, he was in love with Chama, the neighbor's maid. To avoid the wrath of his demanding father, Mimou fakes his school grades.
- Rabha El Haimer's heroic fight to have her sham marriage recognized and her daughter legitimized by the Moroccan judicial system. It is also a complex and compelling portrait of Moroccan society and its attitudes to women, female sexuality, their position in society and access to education. Through Rabha's story, the Moroccan judicial system is laid open and the contemporary issues facing Islamic women are exposed as they seek to reconcile their desire for increased independence with religious and family traditions.
- A kaleidoscopic exploration of what our sense of smell has to do with memory, emotion, and sex.
- A young Brazilian pastor zealously pursues his mission to convert the indigenous people of the Amazon. His fervor and charisma draw the attention of the World Christ Channel, a U.S. based evangelical network methodically expanding across five continents which recruits him to be part of its team of televangelists. Emboldened by their success and momentum, the crusaders march toward their ultimate challenge: Afghanistan... Inspired by true events, this film neither defends nor indicts. It is a small yet powerful awakening of critical awareness.
- In a village of Sous where traditions want the girls to wear the veil, the threads of the canvas intertwine and cross to weave the story of the marriage of two friends Brahim back in his village to get married, and Houssaine a farmer in the village, each marrying the other's sister - On the Net a love affair was born between Youssef and Zaina who decide to get married without ever having met, - as if the young people are repeating their parents' story in order to to right a wrong committed in the past .
- This documentary is a Journey through the life and times of Dr. John-Roger.
- Explores the vibrant array of musical interpretations of Jewish identities, from ram's horn to beatbox, from Uganda to Argentina.
- Aziz is on the run as he is being chased by three angry brothers, who are out for revenge for what happened to their sister. He seeks acknowledgment and safety from Daoui, a pensioner living alone. Together they take a tragic travel full of challenges.
- Women Building Peace is the story of women in Africa who are rebuilding their lives and societies after surviving gender-based violence, war and genocide. It looks at some of the root causes behind these atrocities, and how existing matriarchies create more peaceful communities.
- A portrait of the American director Jim J. at work on the set of his latest film, Only Lovers Left Alive.
- A young woman suffering from sexual harassment from the new company's director
- Chirine, a Moroccan prostitute in her 30s, falls in love with a young painter from a high-ranking family. In order to try and lead a normal life like other respectable women, she tries to escape the nighttime world in which she lives. However, societal prejudices make it difficult for Chirine to escape her past.
- Casablanca Calling is the story of a quiet social revolution in Morocco. In a country where 60% of women have never been to school, a new generation of women have started work as official Muslim leaders or Morchidat. The Morchidat work in some of the poorest communities in Morocco to separate the true teachings of Islam from prejudice and misunderstanding; support girls' education; campaign against early marriage; and encourage young people to build a better Morocco, rather than dreaming of life in the West. Casablanca Calling is an intimate portrait of three Morchidat, and the story of a society in transition and a mission to educate a nation.
- In 2010, two young Irish guys quit their jobs, packed their bags and set themselves a challenge - cycle 26,000km's across 27 countries on 5 continents in 11 months. Drawing from over 40 hours of footage shot by Larry and Kev, 'Endure' gives you a first hand account of life on the road. We see what inspired them and we see how this once in a life time experience continues to effect their lives.
- In the summer of 2012 I've started something undefined. I was working on it for some time, perhaps years. I had to lighten, to get away (and maybe save myself) from family, work, friends, girlfriend, music, cycling, roads, shops, banks, fines. Save me from the F24, prohibitions, traffic, hypocrisy. Fighting the presumption, codes, passwords, envy, Prozac, the silicone tits and botox lips. Save me from the need to appear. I had to go away without saying anything, for to breathe clean air, free of unnecessary things. I realized that I needed the ocean.
- Rabbi Hood looks back over the unusual career of father, Max, Rabbi and outlaw. It brings us into a world of colorful characters: rabbis, lawyers, beggars, crooks, men and women of compassion and character. Max was a magician. On reflection, this Parisian-North African road movie could never really succeed in capturing such a getaway artist. But Rabbi Hood is also a journey within, confronting me with my relationship with this man, and the emotions this relationship never ceases to arouse in me. Over the course of this journey, my own feelings on being faced with the words of father come to light, these paradoxical words which passed on both law and transgression.
- "Muchas veces pienso que Tanger era un estado de animo que, probablemente, se instalo para siempre en esa parte un poco fantasmal de la memoria en la que algunas personas no sabemos distinguir lo que fue verdad de lo que fue mentira." Haro Tecglen. Es una buena expresion para -con cierta desviacion- convertirlo en el sustantivo de la memoria del Tanger internacional. MAPA EMOCIONAL DE TANGER es un documental subjetivo. El tratamiento de los personajes estan reflejados como impresiones subjetivas, asi que los entrevistados se hacen personajes, retratos relativos, puramente emotivos donde el entrevistado-personaje puede estar observandose el mismo, o nosotros podemos observarlo como por detras de una ventana con toda la quietud, la intensidad... La entrevista se nos convierte en una formula propia para construir una pelicula que viaja sobre la piel de los entrevistados que ahora son el corpus dramatico mas importante, junto al recorrido fisico/metafisico de los lugares, los personajes dormidos, la presencia real (porque la puramente evocativa son los entrevistados/personajes). Los entrevistados/personajes nos aportan lo que necesitamos, ahora hay que utilizarlo (las declaraciones, los silencios, la union de aquellos factores laterales y la observacion de los lugares). Asi creamos esas pequenas estructuras (piezas autonomas) dentro del engranaje mayor de la pelicula (estructura mayor). Las pequenas estructuras funcionan como narraciones segun la tension informativa o evocativa: de su orden depende la intensidad dramatica de la pelicula. En el proyecto MAPA EMOCIONAL DE TANGER hay 3 claves basicas que se respetan: 1. La historia esta contada a traves de una estructura circular de piezas (de 1 a 10). Cada pieza es un cuento documental o ficticio que recrea un episodio de aquellos anos. Las piezas se encajan en un puzzle emocional, los entrevistados y los personajes de ficcion se cruzan una y otra vez en los cuentos, autonomos. Todos los cuentos, piezas o segmentos corresponden a capitulos reales. 2. Los testimonios de los protagonistas (alborotados o silenciosos). Desde todos los angulos nacionales, raciales, culturales, religiosos... 3. El tratamiento visual y sonoro. Clave de la singularidad de este proyecto y del desarrollo narrativo y expresivo. Donde la imagen (fotografia y camara) y el sonido (musica, ambientes, voces, sobre todo voces, ruidos...) son los otros personajes protagonistas y conductores. Y donde se debe aproximar desde la quietud y la algarabia hasta la nostalgia y el futuro. La memoria debe ser evocada, invocada y construida con los elementos: la luz (la fotografia), los sonidos cruzados y fijados como psicofonias (la banda sonora)... Y debe hacerlo en la luz y el color y en la oscuridad y las sombras (las melodias y los ruidos).
- One Couch at a Time follows 'CouchSurfing evangelist' Alexandra Liss across 6 continents, 21 countries, CouchSurfing for 7 months in the first full-length feature ever to document the CouchSurfing movement and this emerging 'age of sharing' we are entering.
- In 3 Summits, we follow a father and son as they struggle not only to scale three mountains, but also mend the broken bond between them. This five-week adventure is full of physical challenges, chilling dangers, and emotional upheavals. With perseverance and naivete the father-son team set out on a majestic adventure to three of the highest mountains in Europe and North Africa. Seth's parents divorced when he was 12 years old, arguably the worst time for a boy. His father would not lose sight of the importance of a father's influence into a son's growth. On New Years Day, 2004 they decided to try something bold and original; climb to the summit of three mountain.
- A film crew is hired to go to Morocco to trace a Moroccan/ American Bankers ancestry for his 40th birthday. The result begins as a quiet ethnography documentary about the Berber people of North Africa, but quickly deconstructs into a surreal and fascinating journey into the spirit, culture and minds of a people.
- Omar Benjelloun, the man who defended the working class, was beaten, tortured, imprisoned several times, and sentenced to death then pardoned, until he was assassinated in the public street while he was visiting his mother.
- Although, he was a governor, minister, ambassador, and the one who made the first radio program in the Arab world, explaining and interpreting the entire Qur'an, Mekki Naciri died as a poor man in a humble home.