Revolts in the Arab World

Every Day is a Holiday
(CHAQUE JOUR EST UNE FÊTE )

Dima El-Horr
France, Lebanon 2009 | 87 Min. | 35 mm, OmeU
Three women in a bus in Lebanon. They have the same des­ti­na­tion: a men’s pen­i­ten­tiary. The first woman wants to visit her hus­band whom she hasn’t seen since their day … read more

La Maison d’Angela

Olfa Chakroun
Tunisia 2010 | 26 Min. | DigiBeta
The life of Angela, a 75year old woman, is chang­ing: she is forced to leave her family house locat­ed in La Goulette (Tunisia). This split­ting over­laps with vivid mem­o­ries of … read more

Microphone

Ahmad Abdalla
Egypt 2010 | 120 Min. | 35 mm, OmeU

Upon return­ing to his native Alexan­dria after trav­el­ing abroad in the United States for sev­er­al years, Khaled dis­cov­ers that time has altered and sev­ered many of his prior rela­tion­ships, namely between him and his former flame, Hadeer. Feel­ing alone and reject­ed, Khaled wan­ders the city and quick­ly stum­bles into a new world: the under­ground arts scene. As he becomes increas­ing­ly enchant­ed with this coun­ter­cul­ture move­ment, Khaled cross­es paths with street hip-hop­pers, rooftop rock­ers, graf­fi­ti artists and doc­u­men­tary film­mak­ers. Cap­ti­vat­ed by this diverse inter­sec­tion of cre­ativ­i­ty, he attempts to pull togeth­er his lim­it­ed resources in the hopes of sup­port­ing the onslaught of fresh talent. It is not long before his pro­fes­sion­al and per­son­al life becomes com­plete­ly immersed in music, film and art, a move­ment all the more extra­or­di­nary for it having not emerged from Cairo, Egypt’s bustling cap­i­tal city. MICROPHONE is a rich depic­tion of some of the most excep­tion­al non­pro­fes­sion­al musi­cians the city has to offer. 

Omar Gatlato

Merzak Allouache
Algeria 1976 | 90 Min. | DigiBeta
Omar, called “Gat­la­to” because of his gen­tle­man­ly atti­tude, is a young man from one of the satel­lite towns above Bab-El-Oued. Omar works for cus­toms inves­ti­ga­tion and lives with his large … read more

Terror und Kebab

Sherif Arafa
Egypt 1993 | 105 Min. | DVD, OmU
Ter­ror­ism and the Kebab is a farce denounc­ing the absur­di­ty of bureau­cra­cy in modern Egypt. Adel Imam, Egypt‘s lead­ing comic actor, is a father who wants to move his son … read more

The City of the Dead

Sergio Tréfaut
Egypt, Portugal, Spain 2009 | 62 Min. | DigiBeta
In the vast El Arafa ceme­tery in Cairo, a city has arisen among the tombs and mau­soleums. This “city of the dead” has a living pop­u­la­tion of one mil­lion. There … read more

Tunisie Année Zéro (work in progress)

Olfa Chakroun
Tunisia 2011 | 10 Min. | OmeU
“Tunisia Year Zero” is a film about the free­dom of speech that people recov­ered after the rev­o­lu­tion. It pro­pos­es to show the mood of a time sus­pend­ed between past and … read more