As the 19th century draws to a close, the politically disgraced Mahmoud Abd El Zahir takes up his post as District Commissioner of the remote and dangerous Egyptian oasis of Siwa with his Irish wife Catherine , knowing he has no choice.
The film addresses the decadence of Egyptian society during the Gamal Abdel Nasser era.
It tells the story of a simple Egyptian worker, Anis (played by Emad Hamdi), who cannot tolerate the hypocrisy of the Egyptian government (for whom he works at the Ministry of Health) and the illiteracy of the Egyptian public and decides to hide from all the problems in the country by taking...
"On the ropes" is a story that reflects the Lebanese society trough a family whose members' life is suspended like everything else in the country.
The relationships between women: those of friends, housekeeper/servant, student/teacher, and particularly the relationship of mother and daughter as they experience the difficult stages of menopause and adolescence: 47-year-old Tunisian professor Nadia appears fulfilled, but as she enters menopause she struggles with tension in her marriage, the physical and psychological sympt...
An orphan kid dares to break into a haunted house only to find a ghost who later becomes a friend and mentor, and their relationship helps him achieve his sneaky plans.
A cynical divorced man tries to reconcile with his 12 year old aloof son.
Sugerland is a Tv series that tells the stories of a land with more than 180 characters from a crazy person who knows a lot but acts like wise people to a wise man who acts like a crazy.
This stylish chronicle of Morocco’s 1970s revolutionary cinema reconstitutes a vital history nearly lost to the forces of censorship and repression. Through film and newsreel fragments and a jaunty mix of printed matter, Ali Essafi recovers the impassioned output of a generation whose postcolonial flourishing was extinguished by the authoritarian crackdown of King Hassan II. Fi...
