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Our Feelings Took the Pictures: Open Shutters Iraq

  For a month, a group of women, from 5 cities in Iraq, live and work together in a traditional courtyard house in Damascus. Everyday they are out on the Read More

Dreams

  In the 2003 remains of a scarred Baghdad, confusion, uncertainty and death engulf the bombed ruins of a Psychiatric asylum. It is in this context that the past and Read More

Paradise Now

  Palestinians Said and Khaled, now in young adulthood, have been lifelong friends living in Nablus in the West Bank. They have both had what they consider a difficult life, Read More

Rana’s Wedding

  One morning, spirited Rana (Clara Khoury), a Palestinian teenager living in Jerusalem, receives a startling note from her father, Abu Siad (Zuher Fahoum): She can either get married or Read More

The Syrian Bride

  In Majdal Shams, the largest Druze village in Golan Heights on the Israeli-Syrian border, the Druze bride Mona is engaged to get married with Tallel, a television comedian that Read More

About Baghdad

  About Baghdad is the first film made about Iraq after the fall of the Ba’ath regime in July 2003. It is also perhaps the first effort to privilege the Read More

Chungking Express

  Chungking Express is a 1994 Hong Kong romantic crime comedy-drama film written and directed by Wong Kar-wai. The film consists of two stories told in sequence, each about a Read More

1421: The Year China Discovered America?

  This documentary examines the controversial theory that a Chinese Ming Dynasty fleet, led by Zheng He, sailed past the Cape of Good Hope and crossed the Atlantic to discover Read More

Wedding in Galilee

  The mayor of a West Bank village wants his son to adhere to Palestinian tradition in his upcoming wedding. The trouble is, this custom conflicts with the curfew put Read More

Las poquianchis

  Three sisters manage brothels protected by the authorities, prostituting young girls who are tricked into believing they will be housemaids.  Based on the true story of the sisters who Read More