Revolts in the Arab World

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 of mar­riage. The second one has only one goal: to get her hus­band who has to serve a long sen­tence to sign the divorce papers and thus gain back her free­dom. The third woman is afraid. She car­ries the gun that her hus­band, a prison guardian, has for­got­ten at home. A straight road seems to be lead­ing them quick­ly to their des­ti­na­tion: from Beirut centre to the Mermel prison in the desert. How­ev­er, the jour­ney becomes com­pli­cat­ed. The sound of a stray bullet causes quite a stir and also indi­cates that dan­ger­ous and ter­ri­ble things are going on in this coun­try which is at civil war. There are rumours about a mas­sacre. Groups of refugees are spot­ted. The jour­ney of the three women con­tin­ues, a jour­ney to the inner self of the country.

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

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 … read more

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

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

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

“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