Signals: Power Cut
Overview of films
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Bombes
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 of Facebook members.
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Sturm: Ahmonseto
In the Ahmonseto textile factory, capitalism cuts to the bone and the workers pay the price.
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Pipe Dreams
A memorable phone call between the Syrian cosmonaut Muhammed Faris (part of a Russian space mission) and the late president Hafez al-Assad.
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Adam
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
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Local Copy
We follow four young people through Alexandria en route to the square outside the Bibliotheca Alexandrina. It slowly becomes apparent what this meetin
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Rice City
Beautifully crafted suspense in this stylish, black-and-white experimental Egyptian short that features a strong score by Nahla Mattar.
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Flint Mountains
What does a sculptor need? A small village surrounded by rocks. Friends. And nature as the greatest artist of all.
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Dreams of the City
A young widow and her two sons arrive in Damascus, only to find cruelty and rejection from her father. Dib, the eldest of the boys, comes of age while
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They Were Here
Homage to the old steam engine plant of Damascus, once a symbol of optimistic belief in development, but now a deserted and desolate place.
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Two Cities and a Prison
An experimental theatre project is touring Syria. Through interactive plays, they investigate violence in its different forms and question traditional
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The Sun’s Incubator
Life of a young family as they witness revolutions and birth, misery and hope, interlinked by the will to achieve change.
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I Am the One Who Carries Flowers to Her Grave
Memories of shared political activism, dreams and ideals converge in an intimate portrait of four women. All have changed through harsh experiences of