Overview of articles
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Tramontane
Moving, ingenious and musical narrative about life after war. When his band is to perform in Europe, blind Lebanese musician Rabih has to get a…Published on: -
Like Twenty Impossibles
A Palestinian film crew is stopped at a checkpoint. A visual poem and a narrative about the fragmentation of a people that also questions the…Published on: -
The Pessoptimist
The protagonist, an anti-hero, finds himself out of place and out of time. A victim of both his own existential crisis and his surroundings.Published on: -
Foyer
A piece of blank paper flapping before a camera’s lens attracts a crowd of passers-by in Tunis. From the white void and the comments it…Published on: -
Mimosas
Mystical wisdom and poetic suggestion go hand-in-hand in this quest filmed on beautiful 35mm under Herzogesque conditions in Morocco’s Atlas MouPublished on: -
Blue Sky from Pain
A man has been locked up without knowing why. Where is he? And for how long? The camera studies the empty spaces whilst he talks.Published on: -
Cairo Jazzman
Passionate Amr Salah is an Egyptian jazz composer and musician trying to organise the Cairo Jazz Festival; a risky undertaking, not only becausePublished on: -
Cactus Flower
Struggling actress Aida and bourgeois lady Samiha suddenly find themselves on the streets of a tense Cairo. Smooth-operating street urchin Yassin lendPublished on: -
My Josephine
Two Arab immigrants work in a launderette where, just after 9/11, American flags are washed free of charge. While they fold flags meticulously, true lPublished on: -
Sweat Rain
A both empathic and poetic drama set in the Moroccan countryside. Family, poverty, work and pride are the most important motivations of M’Barek,Published on: