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Publisher
Kikim Media
Pub. Date
2002
Language
English
Description
Tells the story of the seventh century prophet who changed world history in 23 years, and continues to shape the lives of more than 1.2 billion people. Three years in the making, the film takes viewers not only to ancient Middle Eastern sites where Muhammed's story unfolds, but into the homes, mosques and workplaces of some of America's estimated seven million Muslims to discover the many ways in which they follow Muhammad's example.
2) The cave
Publisher
Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
Arabic
Description
"From the acclaimed filmmaker Feras Fayyad ('Last Men in Aleppo') comes the powerful film The Cave, Oscar Nominee for Best Documentary Feature, and a stirring portraid of courage, resilience and female solidarity. For besieged civilians in wartorn Syria, hope and safety lie underground inside the subterranean hospital known as the Cave, where pediatrician and managing physician Dr. Amani Ballour and her colleagues Samaher and Dr. Alaa have claimed...
3) Lifeboat
Publisher
Collective Eye Films
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
Multiple
Description
"Lifeboat showcases refugees desperate enough to risk their lives in rubber boats leaving Libya in the middle of the night despite a high probability of drowning. With few resources but certain that civil society must intervene, volunteers from a German non-profit risk the waves of the Mediterranean to pluck refugees from sinking rafts ... Lifeboat puts a human face on one of the world's greatest contemporary global crises and provides a spark of...
Publisher
Kino Lorber, Inc
Pub. Date
2012
Language
Arabic
Description
A first hand-account of nonviolent resistance in Bil'in, a West Bank village threatened by encroaching Israeli settlements. Shot almost entirely by Palestinian farmer Emad Burnat, who bought his first camera in 2005 to record the birth of his youngest son, the footage was later given to Israeli co-director Guy Davidi to edit. Structured around the violent destruction of each one of Burnat's cameras, the filmmakers' collaboration follows one family's...
Publisher
Grasshopper Film
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
Arabic
Description
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, an organization consisting of ordinary citizens who are the first to rush towards military strikes and attacks in the hope of saving lives.
6) In between
Series
Publisher
Film Movement
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
Arabic
Description
Lalia (Mouna Hawa), Salma (Sana Jammelieh), and Nur (Shaden Kanboura) share an apartment in the vibrant heart of Tel Aviv. Lalia, a criminal lawyer with a wicked wit, loves to burn off her workday stress in the underground club scene. Salma, slightly more subdued, is a DJ and bartender. Nur is a younger, religious Muslim girl who moves into the apartment in order to study at the university. Nur is both intrigued and intimidated by her two sophisticated...
7) The insult
Publisher
Entertainment One Film USA
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
Arabic
Description
After an emotional exchange between a Lebanese Christian and a Palestinian refugee escalates, the men end up in a court case that gets national attention.
Publisher
Strand Releasing
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
Arabic
Description
Cairo, 2011, just weeks before the revolution. Police Detective Noredin, working in the infamous Kasr el-Nil Police Station, is handed the case of a murdered singer. He soon realizes that the investigation concerns the very power elite, close to the president's inner circle.
9) Omar
Publisher
[Publisher not identified]
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
Arabic
Description
Omar is accustomed to dodging surveillance bullets to cross the separation wall to visit his secret love Nadia. But occupied Palestine knows neither simple love nor clear-cut war. When Omar is captured after a deadly act of resistance, he falls into a cat-and-mouse game with the military police. Suspicion and betrayal jeopardize his longtime trust with his childhood friends, but it's soon evident that everything he does is for his love of Nadia.
10) Timbuktu
Publisher
Cohen Media Group
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
Français
Description
A cattle herder and his family who reside in the dunes of Timbuktu find their quiet lives, which are typically free of the Jihadists determined to control their faith, abruptly disturbed when they are forced to follow the new laws of their foreign occupants.
Publisher
Distributed by Anchor Bay Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2005]
Language
English
Description
Between two world wars, a struggle for freedom took place in the African desert. This movie is the historically accurate story about the Libyan resistance leader, Omar Mukhtar, who led the Libyan resistance against the Italian oppressors from 1911-1931.
12) Rang de basanti
Publisher
UTV Motion Pictures
Pub. Date
c2006
Language
Hindi
Description
This is the story about the youth of India today. A young London based film-maker comes upon the diaries of her grandfather, who served in the British police force in India during the freedom struggle. She plans to shoot a film based on the diaries and casts a group of friends to play the roles of the revolutionaries described in the diaries. The friends cannot identify with the characters and would rather enjoy today's life than get involved in a...
Publisher
Eros International Ltd
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
Hindi
Description
Bajirao Mastani immortalizes the journey of star-crossed lovers against the backdrop of war. Set in eighteenth century Hindustan, this romantic war drama is a tale of passion, bravery, betrayal and above all, love. Mounted with lavish sets, elaborate costumes and soulful music, it is one of the most expensive films ever made in India.
15) Ajami
Publisher
Kino
Pub. Date
2010
Language
Arabic
Description
Shakespearian in its scope and themes; revenge, loyalty, hope and despair, draws us into the lives of two brothers fearing assassination; a young refugee working illegally to cover his mother's medical expenses; a cop obsessed with finding his missing brother. Through this dramatic collision of different worlds, we witness cultural and religious tensions simmering beneath the surface and the tragic consequences of enemies living as neighbors.
16) A Wednesday!
Publisher
UTV Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2008
Language
Hindi
Description
Tells the story of certain events that unfold between 2 pm and 6 pm on a particular Wednesday in the city of Mumbai, where the Commissioner of Police receives a call demanding the release of four militants and threatening the detonation of four bombs hidden in Mumbai if the demands are not meet.
Publisher
Eros International
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
Hindi
Description
A five year old girl from Pakistan gets separated from her mother at an Indian railway station. Lost and hungry she finds shelter at the home of Pavan, an ardent devotee of Hanuman, who sets out on a quest to unite the child with her parents against all odds.
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