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Arabic
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Winner of the Lion of the Future Award for Best Debut Feature at the Venice Film Festival, it is a visually sumptuous coming-of-death fable. During her son's naming ceremony, a Sheikh predicts that Sakina's child will die at the age of twenty. Haunted by this prophecy, Sakina becomes overly protective of her son Muzamil, who grows up knowing about his fate. As Muzamil escapes Sakina's ever-watchful eye, he encounters friends, ideas, and challenges...
Publisher
Kino Lorber
Language
Arabic
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Description
Jordan, 1967. The world is alive with change: brimming with reawakened energy, new styles, music and an infectious sense of hope. In Jordan, a different kind of change is underway as tens of thousands of refugees pour across the border from Palestine. Having been separated from his father in the chaos of war, Tarek, and his mother Ghaydaa, are amongst this latest wave of refugees. Placed in temporary refugee camps made up of tents and prefab houses...
Publisher
Grasshopper Film
Language
Arabic
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Description
2018 **Academy Award** nominee for Best Documentary Feature, Syrian filmmaker Feras Fayyad’s breathtaking work – a searing example of boots-on-the-ground reportage – follows the efforts of the internationally recognized White Helmets; ordinary citizens who are the first to rush towards military strikes in the hope of saving lives. Winner of the Grand Jury Prize for World Cinema - Documentary at the **Sundance Film Festival**. Nominated for the...
Publisher
Premium Films
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (13 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Language
Arabic
Description
Naively envisioning herself a Jeanne D'Arc of the desert, Mariam runs away from the Western Saharan refugee camps in Algeria hoping to liberate her homeland from occupation.
7) Bon voyage
Publisher
Ouat Media
Pub. Date
2016.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (24 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Language
Arabic
Description
A couple's compassion is put to the test when they come across a sinking ship of refugees while on a pleasure trip across the Mediterranean. Winner of Best Film and Best Live Action Over 15 Minutes at the Palm Springs International ShortFest, Best Short Film and Best Narrative Short at the San Diego Film Festival, and the Swiss Film Prize for Best Short Film.
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (1 video file, approximately 89 min.) : digital, .flv file, sound
Language
Arabic
Description
Three teenage girlfriends live in an apartment complex near Goulette beach in 1967, and during the summer they make a pact to lose their virginity. "An enchanting, insanely erotic comedy." - Eye Weekly.
9) Watan
Publisher
Collective Eye Films
Pub. Date
2017.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (51 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Language
Arabic
Description
Syria: Seven years. Six million displaced people. The biggest humanitarian emergency of our time. The Syrian refugee crisis remains at the forefront of the global consciousness: as statistics, as photographs, as a bargaining chip in international politics. But inside the camps real people settle in to a life in limbo. WATAN (Homeland) explores two of the biggest refugee camps in Jordan - Zaatari and Azraq - along with neighbouring city Jerash, to...
10) Africa Dreaming
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2015.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (1 video file, approximately 27 min.) : digital, .flv file, sound
Language
Arabic
Description
Africa Dreaming is a landmark in African television - a series drawing together for the first time broadcasters, television producers, film directors and writers from across the continent. Africa Dreaming was designed to give Africans a rare opportunity to speak directly to each other in their own words and images. It is also the first continent-wide media project in which South Africa played a leading role. Africa Dreaming may be a harbinger of what...
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Language
Arabic
Description
English Arabic Bilingual Children's Book. Perfect for kids studying English or Arabic as their second language.
It's time for bed, but Alice doesn't want to go to sleep just yet. By going through her bedtime routine, Mom calms her daughter down by reminding her of all the wonderful things they did together that evening. Written in a soft and soothing manner, this book shows the warm and loving relationship between Alice and her mom, while preparing...
Publisher
Strand Releasing
Pub. Date
2017.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (111 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Language
Arabic
Description
Based on a thrilling true story, **Sundance** Award-winner THE NILE HILTON INCIDENT is a crime noir that plays “*like an Arabic riff on Chinatown*” (***Entertainment Weekly***). Weeks before the 2011 Egyptian Revolution, Noredin, a police officer in Cairo, investigates a pop singer’s murder at the Nile Hilton Hotel. What initially appears to be a crime of passion turns into a complicated case involving the power elite of Egypt. When Noredin...
Publisher
Utopia
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (74 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Language
Arabic
Description
Filmed over five years, CAPTAINS OF ZAATARI follows two best friends, Mahmoud and Fawzi, refugees from Syria who now live in the Zaatari camp in Jordan. As teeneragers and like many boys their age, they dream of becoming professional football players. Despite being locked in a space that has no facilities or opportunity for training, they remain hopeful and full of dreams. Their stories take an unexpected turn when Aspire Academy, one of the world’s...
14) Khartoum Offside
Publisher
Filmotor
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (76 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Language
Arabic
Description
Sara is one of the pioneers and the team’s coach. She struggles not only with a lack of money, support and facilities, but also with bureaucratic problems: because she comes from South Sudan, the authorities make it difficult for her to stay in Khartoum. The filmmakers follow her and other team members in their daily lives, in surprisingly close detail. The women are outspoken about their opinions and talk—sometimes laughingly—about the violence...
Publisher
Kino Lorber
Pub. Date
2015.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (102 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Language
Arabic
Description
This acclaimed film depicts the clash between culture and family as seen through the eyes of a young Tunisian woman balancing the traditional expectations of her family with her creative life as the singer in a politically charged rock band. AS I OPEN MY EYES offers a nuanced portrait of the individual implications of the incipient Arab Spring. Nominated for Best Film at the **Venice Film Festival**. Official Selection at the **Toronto International...
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (1 video file, approximately 58 min.) : digital, .flv file, sound
Language
Arabic
Description
Qudad is an ancient lime waterproofing plaster that has been used for several millennia in the Arabian Peninsula. In Yemen, where it most likely originated, it is found on religious and secular buildings and archaeological sites. Because of its elaborate and labor-intensive application (it takes a full year to set properly), this strong, resistant material has barely been in use for the past 30 years. As a consequence, very few masons know how to...
17) Between fences
Publisher
Torch Films
Pub. Date
2016.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (85 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Language
Arabic
Description
Holot (Hebrew for "Sands") is a detention center in the middle of the Israeli desert that was built to quickly address an influx of African asylum seekers, mostly refugees from Eritrea and Sudan. The migrants in Holot have no legal status in Israel, and the government seems to have no plan to grant them asylum, so they remain in an indefinite state of limbo. Into this Beckettian reality enter theater director Chen Alon and filmmaker Avi Mograbi. Their...
18) Henet Ward
Publisher
Salaud Morisset
Pub. Date
2020.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (23 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Language
Arabic
Description
Halima a Sudanese henna painter living in Egypt. She goes to one of Giza’s local areas to prepare a bride for her wedding and her 7 years old daughter "Ward" accompanies her and starts to wander around and discover the place. Selected at Clermont-Ferrand 2020, BFI London 2020, Special Mention of the Jury at Akbank Film Festial.
19) Syrian bride
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (1 video file, approximately 97 min.) : digital, .flv file, sound
Language
Arabic
Description
Shot on location in the Israeli-occupied Golan Heights, the Syrian bride is a powerful film about physical, mental and emotional borders and the courage it takes to cross them.
20) In Syria
Publisher
Film Movement
Pub. Date
2017.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (86 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Language
Arabic
Description
Trapped inside her house in a city under siege, Oum Yazan, mother of three, turns her flat into a safe harbor for her family and neighbors, trying to protect them from the war outside. When bombs threaten to destroy the building, when snipers turn the courtyards into deadly zones, and burglars break in to claim their dreadful bounties, maintaining the thin balance of routine inside the walls becomes a matter of life and death. Winner of the Panorama...
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