by Maff | Nov 20, 2018 | Stockholm 2018
Wajib Palestine, France, Germany, Colombia, Norway, Qatar, UAE I 2017 I Arabic dialogue with English subtitles l 96 min Abu Shadi is a divorced father and a school teacher in his mid-sixties living in Nazareth. After his daughter’s wedding in one month he will be...
by Maff | Nov 20, 2018 | Stockholm 2018
What Comes Around Lebanon, Egypt, Greece, Qatar, Slovenia I 2018 I Arabic dialogue with English subtitles l 79 min In Rod El Farag, one of the poorest residential areas in Cairo, obtaining meat, fruit and daily bread is a constant struggle. But the sense of community...
by Maff | Nov 20, 2018 | Stockholm 2018
Atoor Saudi Arabia I 2017 I Arabic dialogue with English subtitles l 20 min Atoor is a young man in his twenties who’s ashamed of his name. His father named him after his own mother for good fortune, but this name only brought him unwanted attention and criticism....
by Maff | Nov 20, 2018 | Stockholm 2018
Black Mamba Tunisia I 2017 I Arabic dialogue with English subtitles l 21 min For Sarra, a young middle-class girl from Tunis, everything, on the surface, is going as her conservative mother planned: she is taking sewing lessons and she is soon going to get married to...
by Maff | Nov 20, 2018 | Stockholm 2018
Sama United Arab Emirates I 2017 I Arabic dialogue with English subtitles l 21 min Sama is in denial over the recent death of her twin brother, Mousa. On the first birthday anniversary following his passing, she finally decides to visit his grave to fulfil an old...
by Maff | Nov 20, 2018 | Stockholm 2018
The Donkey Lebanon I 2018 I Arabic dialogue with English subtitles l 22 min In Ancient Phoenicia, an old man, Abdeshmun, is conned into believing that he had sinned by treating a man as his work-donkey for many years, as one of the con-men steals his donkey behind his...
