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Publisher
Under the Milky Way
Pub. Date
2013.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (100 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Language
Arabic
Description
Summer in Tangiers. A family comes together for three days following the death of their father to share memories and grieve his loss, as Muslim tradition dictates. They have left the beach behind and swapped swimsuits for djellabas as everyone gathers in a show of mourning. Sparks start to fly when Sofia jets in from New York after several years away. The youngest daughter, she made a new life for herself as an actress in America. Her return provides...
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (1 video file, approximately 72 min.) : digital, .flv file, sound
Language
Arabic
Description
Bursting with mordant wit and alive with urgent real-life dramatic energy, Rashid Masharawi's Laila's birthday is a "fleet, dark urban comedy," (New York Times) that "moves at a brisk clip, ticking incidents like a meter on overtime" (Time Out New York).
Publisher
Big World Pictures
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (125 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Language
Arabic
Description
Khalid Abdalla (The Kite Runner, The Square) plays the protagonist of Tamer El Said’s ambitious feature debut, a filmmaker in Cairo attempting to capture the zeitgeist of his city as the world changes around him—from personal love and loss to the fall of the Mubarak regime. Throughout, friends send footage and stories from Berlin, Baghdad, and Beirut, creating a powerful, multilayered meditation on togetherness, the tangible hold of cities, and...
4) Blush
Publisher
Film Movement
Pub. Date
2015.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (86 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Language
Arabic
Description
17-year-old Naama spends most of her free time drinking and partying in the hopes of escaping from her parents' constant bickering, worsened by the recent disappearance of her AWOL soldier sister. When a free-spirited new girl shows up at school, Naama falls deeply in love for the first time and the intensity of the experience at once confuses her and gives her life new meaning.
Publisher
Samuel Goldwyn Films
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (104 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Language
Arabic
Description
Sam seeks to escape the Syrian War, but in order to travel to Europe and be reunited with the love of his life, he accepts to have his back tattooed by one of the world’s most prominent contemporary artist. Turning his own body into a prestigious piece of art, Sam will however come to realize that his decision might actually mean anything but freedom.
Publisher
Samuel Goldwyn Films
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (87 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Language
Arabic
Description
Gaza, today. Sixty-year-old fisherman Issa is secretly in love with Siham, a woman who works at the market with her daughter Leila. When he discovers an ancient phallic statue of Apollo in his fishing nets, Issa hides it, not knowing what to do with this mysterious and potent treasure. Yet deep inside, he feels that this discovery will change his life forever.
7) Amira
Publisher
Distrib Films
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (100 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Language
Arabic
Description
AMIRA, a 17 year old Palestinian, was conceived with the smuggled sperm of her imprisoned father, Nawar. Although their relationship since birth has been restricted to prison visits, he remains her hero. His absence in her life is overcompensated with love and affection from those surrounding her. But when a failed attempt to conceive another child reveals Nawar’s infertility, Amira’s world turns upside down.
8) Adam
Publisher
Strand Releasing
Pub. Date
2022.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (101 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Language
Arabic
Description
The Official Oscar entry for Morocco, Abla runs a modest local bakery from her home in Casablanca where she lives alone with her 8-year-old daughter Warda. Their routine of housework and homework is interrupted one day by a knock on the door. It is Samia, a young woman looking for a job and a roof over her head. The little girl is immediately taken with the newcomer, but her mother initially refuses to allow a pregnant stranger into their home. Gradually,...
Publisher
Digital Media Rights
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (86 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Language
Arabic
Description
In the midst of a terrorist strike, 9 Muslim women at a crossroads gather for an unforgettable night. In a country fraught with danger and strife, the women reveal their heartbreaks, their tragedies, and their hopes for the future.
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.
11) The Insult
Publisher
Cohen Film Collection
Pub. Date
2018.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (111 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Language
Arabic
Description
In today's Beirut, an insult blown out of proportion finds Tony, a Lebanese Christian, and Yasser, a Palestinian refugee in court. Nominated for an **Academy Award** for Best Foreign Language Film of the Year. Winner of Best Actor (Kamel El Basha) at the **Venice Film Festival**. "*...a crackling legal thriller that boils down centuries of Middle Eastern conflict into one reckless insult - and lets the sparks fly.*" - Peter Travers, ***Rolling Stone***...
12) Mimosas
Publisher
Grasshopper Film
Pub. Date
2016.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (96 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Language
Arabic
Description
Winner of the Critics Week Grand Prize at the **Cannes Film Festival**, Oliver Laxe’s stunning new film, MIMOSAS, is a breathtakingly-shot Western that follows a mysterious caravan carrying a dying sheikh into the Moroccan Atlas Mountains. Somewhere in the desert, a caravan is escorting an elderly sheik to the village where he was born. His last wish is to be buried with his loved ones. But death does not wait. Without their leader, the company...
13) Martyr
Publisher
Breaking Glass Pictures
Pub. Date
2017.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (84 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Language
Arabic
Description
For Hassane, a young man from an impoverished neighborhood, life has stopped making sense. All he has left is a close group of friends, brought together by a shared sense of marginalization and hopelessness. Hassane’s strange sudden drowning at Beirut’s rocky shore sparks a mob procession and strips apart the bond of youth and friendship, forcing his friends to grapple with loss and powerlessness, and with the cold heavy truth of their friend’s...
14) 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.
Publisher
Oscilloscope Laboratories
Pub. Date
2017.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (100 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Language
Arabic
Description
When Mariam, a young Tunisian woman, is raped by police officers after leaving a party, she is propelled into a harrowing night in which she must fight for her rights even though justice lies on the side of her tormentors. Employing impressive cinematic techniques and anchored by a tour-de-force performance from newcomer Mariam Al Ferjani, BEAUTY AND THE DOGS tells an urgent, unapologetic, and important story head-on. A rare, startling film from a...
Publisher
Kino Lorber
Pub. Date
2003.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (90 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Language
Arabic
Description
At the center of the Middle East conflict, hearts beat in tragic comedy and deadpan irony: a young Palestinian woman defies Israeli soldiers and struts through a check-point as if it were the catwalk of a fashion show, Santa Claus is chased up the sun-drenched hills of Nazareth by a gang of knife-wielding school kids, Israeli police use a blindfolded prisoner to provide directions to tourists in Jerusalem and a female ninja descends from the sky,...
17) 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...
18) Clash
Publisher
Kino Lorber
Pub. Date
2016.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (98 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Language
Arabic
Description
Set entirely in a police truck, a number of detainees from different political and social backgrounds are brought together by fate, during the turmoil that followed the ousting of former president Morsi from power. Nominated for an Un Certain Regard Award at the **Cannes Film Festival.** *"The film's sheer bravura is breathtaking." - Trevor Johnston, **Time Out*** *"...the filmmakers cultivate a dynamic portrait of Egypt, with its dense social, political...
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 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.
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