Films
Alexandria… New York
After “Alexandria… Why”, “La Mémoire”, and “Alexandria, Again and Forever”, Youssef Chahine uses the character of Yehia to look back on the 50-year history of his cinema in an autobiographical fiction feature.
’83… The Series – ’83… Al Mousalsal
The story of a family (the father, a sculptor, his wife and their son) in a Lebanese village on the eve of its destruction.
The woman gets panicked. The man bound to his principles, refuses to leave the village like the others…
The conflict continues till the exodus…
Bab El Chams (The Door to the Sun)
In the beginning was Palestine, just when the story of Younes’ life began. Younes sometimes went under the name of Abou Salem, sometimes the Man and some other times Ibrahim’s father. This was also when the story of his wife Nahila began – she became his bride at the age of 12, she was to breast-feed their first baby during the exhausting walks as she fled with the other villagers towards the North and left behind their burnt-down house. He would visit her in Bab El Chams, a cave in Galilee and tell her about Saladin and Nasser and Nahil believed his tales.
Bab el Web
Kamel and his brother Bouzid live in Bab El Oued, a working class neighborhood of Algiers. Kamel is a disillusioned, brooding loner.
Badkon Shi…t?
A bunch of friends go to the Bekaa valley to buy some cannabis. The dealer asks them to take a metal box to some address in Beirut…
Being Osama
BEING OSAMA provides an intimate look at six men with highly diverse backgrounds, interests and personalities, united by their first names and the experience of living as an Arab in the post 9/11 world.
Cousins
Driss is to spend a month in Algiers to meet up with his parents, brother, cousins, as well as with his native country, that has deeply changed ever since he left. He meets Nedjma, a distant cousin, who is a bit conservative and shy. He arouses her desire for independence and freedom, yet her hand is promised to Amran.