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29 Jan – 8 Feb 2026

Overview of articles

  • Tawk al hamama al mafkoud

    A fairy-tale film in two senses of the word. The story is set in the world of 1001 Nights and the film looks like a…
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  • The silence

    A film and theatre production group is working on a play based on interviews with women working in nightclubs. During the preparations the group members…
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  • Le Caïre

    In Le Caire, Youssef Chahine sketches a personal view of Cairo as he shows his home town to a foreign visitor. All the registers are…
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  • Recording the truth

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  • La plage des enfants perdus

    With La plage des enfants perdus Jillali Ferhati has made a small, moving and original film (in which his sister Souad plays the leading role)…
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  • Sekatat sherazade an el kalam el mubah

    A family gathering in Tunis during Ramadan, just before the end of the fast. The relatives prepare for their first meal. They gather round the…
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  • Cheb

    A reconnaissance in feature-film form of the people and landscape of Algeria. The protagonist, Merwan Kechida, is an Algerian youth of twenty who emigrated to…
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  • Bab el-hadid

    The film, which is known internationally under the title Cairo Station or Gare Central, was interpreted in 1958 by press and public as an insult…
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  • Wajib

    A road-movie in miniature through the neighbourhoods of Nazareth, where divorced teacher Abu Shadi, together with his son Shadi who is home from Italy
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  • Latifa, le coeur au combat

    After her son is killed in a terrorist attack, French-Moroccan Latifa becomes an influential activist striving to prevent such attacks. In this docume
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