A boy who spends his childhood on the streets of Kabul repeatedly escapes into the fantastical world of Bollywood films. By selling movie tickets on the black market, he eventually gets caught by the authorities and is sent to an orphanage. Although he has to leave his life on the streets behind and life in […]
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 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 Beirut, Syrian workers help build tall skyscrapers. Unlike in their destroyed homeland, the war in neighboring Lebanon is over and new buildings are being constructed. However, every night the construction sites are locked down because the government has imposed a curfew from 7 p.m. for all refugees.
