OF SHEEP AND MEN
The vacant lot next to El Harrach is witness to unusual thrill and agitation on this late summer afternoon. Big amounts of cash are circulating among the loud crowds. To the side rams, held on leashes by some proud-looking young men, are bleating. Habib and his sheep are getting ready for combat. Once all the […]
PLOT 35
Plot 35 is a place that was never mentioned in my family; it is where my elder sister, who died aged three, is buried. The sister about whom I was told nothing, or nearly nothing, and of whom my parents had oddly never kept a single photograph. It was to make up for the missing […]
VICTORY STREET
SOUFRA
Directed by Thomas Morgan (Waiting for Mamu) and executive produced by Academy Award® – winner Susan Sarandon (Dead Man Walking). Soufra follows the inspirational story of intrepid social entrepreneur, Mariam Shaar – a refugee who has spent her entire life in the Burj El Barajneh refugee camp south of Beirut, Lebanon. The film follows Mariam […]
THE THIRD MURDER
Cheers to the Newlyweds
VOLUBILIS
»زاما« هي أفلمة سينامئية لرواية الكاتب األرجنتيني أنطونيو دي بينيديتو، التي تحمل األسم نفسه والصادرة عام 1956 ، َ وتتخذ من أمريكا الجنوبية املستعمرة من قبل الغزاة األسبان يف نهاية القرن الثامن عرش مرسحاً ألحداثها. يجسد املمثل املكسييك دانييل كاتشو، شخصية دوين ديجو دي زاما، وهو مسؤول خائب يعاين من إزدراء اآلخرين، ويعكس اىل حد […]
ZAMA
BRIMSTONE & GLORY
The National Pyrotechnic Festival in Tultepec, Mexico is a site of festivity unlike any other in the world. In celebration of San Juan de Dios, patron saint of firework makers, conflagrant revelry engulfs the town for ten days. Artisans show off their technical virtuosity, up-and-comers create their own rowdy, lofi combustibles, and dozens of teams […]
THE OTHER SIDE OF HOPE
A failing restaurant owner hires a young Syrian refugee he finds sleeping in the inner yard of the restaurant, in this Silver Bear–winning dramedy from acclaimed Finnish director Aki Kaurismäki. One of the giants of European cinema, Aki Kaurismäki has long been a rigorous advocate for those left behind, either by economic vicissitudes, accident, or […]