For his documentary “Ghost Hunting,” Read Andoni seeks former prisoners of Al-Moskobiya, Israel’s main interrogation center, so that they can reenact their experiences of torture and imprisonment through a role-playing game.
The documentary by ARTE is about Africans who do not embark on the daring and dangerous journey to Europe. Instead, they look for well-paid work within Africa.
Baye Laye is the captain of a small fishing boat. Many of his countrymen have already left Senegal to build a better life in Europe. His brother Abou also dreams of establishing a music career there and convinces Baye Laye to be the captain of the Pirogue, a simple fishing boat. Together with 30 other […]
With this film, the director speaks for many refugees who are full of hope for a better life. To escape the bitter reality, they set out on a journey to Europe by crossing the sea. However, many of them have become victims of drowning.
The film is about two siblings living with their mother in a poor neighborhood of Cairo. The 22-year-old Saqr wants to leave the dirty tannery district in Egypt where he lives and works. His sister Taheya, six years older, wants to prevent this at all costs. She sabotages the budding romance between her brother and […]
In the 1970s, the Aryub Cinema was the most elegant movie theater in Kabul. Those were times of freedom and joy, which were swept away by civil war and tyranny. Only thanks to the old projectionist Naser did the Aryub survive amid the destruction. A group of young students decides to support the cinephiles and […]
In 2001, the Taliban blew up Buddha statues in Bamiyan, one of Afghanistan’s cultural centers. Amid the caves of the former monastery in the area, Bakhtay grows up—a girl torn between fighting local gangs of boys her age and her deep desire to find a place in a new girls’ school.
In a country torn apart by war, a thirty-year-old woman watches over her older husband. A bullet to his neck has left him in a coma. After years under his control, without her own voice, one day the woman decides to say things she never could before, even though they had been married for ten […]
The film tells a very poetic story about a girl in shattered Afghanistan who must navigate new freedoms and old restrictions after the Taliban regime.
“Dancing Arabs” is the story of a young Palestinian’s liberation from all the political restrictions of his environment. He fights for love, equality and peaceful coexistence. The film shows his needs and, in a dramatic and comic way, the real drama of his reality. Between political and social considerations, love and peace win out.
