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The Mummy
Based on the true story of a 19th-century Upper-Egyptian clan that robs a cache of mummies and sells the artefacts on the black market. The…Published on: -
Sewing Borders
Through personal tales of displacement, Beirut residents personalise different maps of the city and region by sewing borders onto them.Published on: -
Poisonous Roses
In this intriguing, skittish portrait of poverty in today’s Egypt, the camera follows 22-year-old Saqr and his 28-year-old meddlesome sister, TaPublished on: -
The New World, Episode One
In this desktop film, the history of Arab immigrants to the US is evoked through archival material of ordinary people and the melancholy songs that…Published on: -
The Drift
In this film about the resistance to progress at the expense of history, Maeve Brennan’s wonderfully poignant documentary intertwines three stories ofPublished on: -
Amateurs
A slick marketing film or two teenagers messing with a smartphone and selfie sticks: how do you pitch the colourless Swedish town of Lafors as…Published on: -
Counting Tiles
Whistle at the ready, prepared to blow bubbles: Clowns Without Borders are eager to give refugees a cheerful welcome on the Greek island of Lesbos,…Published on: -
A Drowning Man
Palestinian filmmaker Mahdi Fleifel is back with a short fiction film in which a young man does his utmost to survive in a foreign country.Published on: -
The Insult
It starts as a minor altercation between hot-tempered Lebanese-Christian Toni and Palestinian-born contractor Yasser. But their quarrel escalates to aPublished on: -
Good Evening to the People Living in the Camp
An unorthodox portrait of people who have dominated the news for years, but whom no one really seems to know: refugees. Artist and filmmaker Joost…Published on: