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Bab El-Oued City
$23.95 | 93 minutes
Algiers, 1989. The working class neighborhood Bab el-Oued is still in shock after the bloody riots of October 1988. At night, young Boualem works in a bakery. By day, the amplified call to pray disturbs his sleep. In a fit of anger, he tears down the loudspeaker on his building's terrace and throws it into the sea. A group of young Islamists&hellip…
Chronicle of a Disappearance
$23.95 | 88 minutes
In this political comedy, filmmaker and star Elia Suleiman returns to his Palestinian homeland after spending 12 years studying film in New York. What follows is a series of vignettes expressing the director's personal views on the quality of contemporary Israeli-Arab life. Suleiman won the New Director's Showcase Special Jury Prize at&hellip…
Daughter of Keltoum
$17.95 | 101 minutes
This intriguing film, written and directed by the impressive Mehdi Charef, follows Rallia (Cylia Malki), a 19-year-old Swiss woman who goes looking for her biological mother in a remote Berber region of Algeria&hellip…
Divine Intervention
$10.95 | 90 minutes
DIVINE INTERVENTION writer-director Elia Suleiman has been compared to Woody Allen and Charlie Chaplin, presumably because he has Allen's intelligent, self-deprecating humor and Chaplin's gift for silent comedy. DIVINE INTERVENTION is not a silent film, but an intensely quiet comedy about daily life in the West Bank and Israel. Suleiman&hellip…
Fatima
$19.95 | 93 minutes
Fatima is an intimate film that tackles how sensitive human beings react to the ominous reality of war and destruction. Using a poetic approach, the film subtly brings the viewer into the psyche of the main character, a 26-year old woman who returns to Baghdad, Iraq to reunite with her family and fiancée, and to follow her dream&hellip…
Fatima - ON DEMAND
$3.99 | 93 minutes
Fatima is an intimate film that tackles how sensitive human beings react to the ominous reality of war and destruction. Using a poetic approach, the film subtly brings the viewer into the psyche of the main character, a 26-year old woman who returns to Baghdad, Iraq to reunite with her family and fiancée, and to follow her dream&hellip…
Fatima - DOWNLOAD
$11.99 | 93 minutes
Fatima is an intimate film that tackles how sensitive human beings react to the ominous reality of war and destruction. Using a poetic approach, the film subtly brings the viewer into the psyche of the main character, a 26-year old woman who returns to Baghdad, Iraq to reunite with her family and fiancée, and to follow her dream&hellip…
Fertile Memory
$23.95 | 99 minutes
In the first feature film produced within the Palestinian West Bank "Green Line," Michel Khleifi's FERTILE MEMORY combines documentary and narrative elements to examine the lives of Palestinian women living in a conflicted culture. Romia works in an Israeli factory and continually fights Israeli authorities for the rights to her family&hellip…
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Forbidden Lie$
$24.95 | 104 minutes
Indiepix Films Forbidden Lie$ focuses on Norma Khouri who is a thief, a saint, a seductress and a sociopath – depending on who is talking. Khouri won fame and fortune with her “true story” Forbidden Love, about a shocking honor killing in Jordan. The book was a runaway bestseller, the book was translated into multiple languages…
Free Zone
$23.95 | 90 minutes
Beginning with a lengthy close-up shot of a fragile Natalie Portman sobbing in the back seat of a car, it's clear from the very beginning that FREE ZONE is going to offer some challenging viewing. Portman's character is Rebecca, and the location is close to the Wailing Wall in Jerusalem. Hanna (Hanna Laslo) is the driver of the cab in&hellip…




