Signals: Power Cut
Overview of films
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The A77A Project
Khaled Hafez | 3' | Egypt | None
The work is a 2-D and 3-D animation of a figure of the ancient gods, Anubis. A figure that dwells in the streets of urban… -
Adam
Ali Heraize | 2' | Egypt | International premiere
A young man navigates through the cityscapes of contemporary Cairo with its contrasting crowds and finds himself out of place and struggling to be hea -
Another Passion
Heba Yossry | 20' | Egypt | None
Narrative film in which Yossry portrays her own struggle to study cinema, and the confrontations she had with her family. -
Back to the Square
Petr Lom | 83' | Canada | World premiere
A year after the euphoria on Tahrir Square, the demonstrators’ goals have not even come close to being reached. The country is ruled with an… -
Before Vanishing
Joude Gorani | 14' | France | None
The Barada is the main river in Damascus. Once it was the city’s lifeblood which provided riches, but nothing now remains of that illustrious past. -
Blue Dive
Mostafa Youssef | 16' | Egypt | International premiere
In this story about brief encounters set in the Mediterranean Alexandria, the filmmaker sheds his light on death and compares it to the sea. -
Bombes
Sandra Ghosn | 5' | France | International premiere
Why do we want to be seen on Facebook? And how? To find out, the artist decided to emulate the profile pictures of a number… -
City of Emptiness
Ali Sheikh Khudr | 8' | Syria | None
A searching look back to another time and another place, filled with emptiness and void, where escape seems the sole solution. -
Cousin
Mohammad Ali Atassi | 50' | Syria | None
A portrait of the Syrian dissident Riad al-Turk, who managed to maintain his ideals through long periods of extreme harshness as a political prisoner. -
Crack
Reem Ghazzi | 4' | Syria | None
A traumatic incident has forced an elderly tailor into a crippled existence and the choice only to observe the world from a safe distance. -
Dolls: A Woman from Damascus
Diana El Jeiroudi | 57' | Denmark | None
By editing together conversations with Syrian housewife Manal and the marketing manager of the Arab Barbie doll Fulla, director Diana El Jeiroudi outl -
Doors of Fear: El Naddaha
Ahmed Khaled | 42' | Egypt | International premiere
Doors of Fear is the first horror drama series in the Arab world. Dealing with different folkloric tales of horror from the Egyptian culture, the…