This documentary interweaves in-person interviews with a dramatized road trip as a pair of journalists travel throughout Algeria asking their fellow citizens about the meaning of paradise that promises men 72 virgins after death.
Created in 1985 in the security zone occupied by Israel since 1978 and administrated under the milice rule, the Army of Southern Lebanon, Khiam, was a place where no right was respected, a place imposing a reign of arbitrary and torture. Sonia, Afif, Rajae and Neeman have spent almost ten years in this hell.
On August 2, 1990 Iraqi tanks rumbled into the tiny oil-rich emirate of Kuwait, triggering the turmoil that would soon engulf many of the world's nations in war. Through months of tough talk and bloody combat, CNN's global newsgathering forces reported the story live from Baghdad and Riyadh, Washington and Moscow, Jerusalem and Amman. Now CNN's award-winning documentary team "S...
Can a house be a metaphor for Arab-Jewish relations in Israel Amos Gitai returns to the house in West Jerusalem he profiled in 1980. He interviews members of the Jewish families who live there, and he talks with the Arab family who lived in the house until 1948. They are now in East Jerusalem and pay a nearly furtive visit to the street in front of their old house. Gitai also ...
FIRST TO FALL follows a group of young civilian expatriate 'rebels' on their 8-month journey to liberate Libya, their home country. They give up comfortable, stable lives in order to take up arms against a corrupt regime and risk their lives in a brutal, chaotic war.
In 2008 two best friends found themselves trapped in one of the most dangerous places on earth - the only western journalists in the Gaza Strip on what was supposed to be a 24-hour assignment. The War Around Us captures the collision of veteran war correspondent and one of TIME's most 100 influential people, Ayman Mohyeldin, with rookie reporter Sherine Tadros. As missiles show...
A series of interviews which try to establish the current role of the woman in the Saudi society in relation with the recent past. Is there a change And if there is a change is it for the better or for the worse. Haifaa Al-Mansour talks with people on all sides of the debate.
Law permits the Israeli army to enter Palestinian homes at any time. They do not have to say why they search an apartment in the middle of the night. Law permits Palestinians to film these actions and the army is not allowed to forbid it. On this particular night, relations are altered due to the presence of an active camera.(Berlinale 2014)
Documentary about the Bustros Family
