Lubna Azabal
1) Here
Publisher
Strand Releasing Home Video
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
English
Description
Set against the gorgeous landscape of Armenia, chronicles a brief but intense relationship between an American satellite-mapping engineer and an expatriate photographer who impulsively decide to travel across the remote countryside. As their trip comes to an end, the two must decide where to go from HERE.
2) Adam
Publisher
Strand Releasing
Language
Arabic
Appears on list
Formats
Description
The Official Oscar entry for Morocco, Abla runs a modest local bakery from her home in Casablanca where she lives alone with her 8-year-old daughter Warda. Their routine of housework and homework is interrupted one day by a knock on the door. It is Samia, a young woman looking for a job and a roof over her head. The little girl is immediately taken with the newcomer, but her mother initially refuses to allow a pregnant stranger into their home. Gradually,...
Publisher
Strand Releasing Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
Arabic
Description
Halim and Mina run a traditional caftan store in one of Morocos oldest medinas. To keep up with the commands of the demanding customers, they hire Youssef. Slowly Mina realizes how much her husband is moved by the presence of the young man.
Publisher
Universal
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
Arabic
Description
Salam is an amateurish young Palestinian man who becomes a writer on a popular soap opera after a fortuitous meeting with an Israeli soldier. His artistic career is on the rise until the soldier and the show's financial sponsors disagree about how the show should end, and Salam gets caught in the middle.
Publisher
Cohen Film Collection
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
עברית
Description
Salam, an inexperienced young Palestinian man, becomes a writer on a popular soap opera after a chance meeting with an Israeli soldier. His creative career is on the rise - until the soldier and the show's financial backers disagree about how the show should end, and Salam is caught in the middle.
6) Paradise Now
Publisher
Warner Bros
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
Arabic
Description
Filmed entirely on location in the West Bank during the current Intifada, PARADISE NOW chronicles the last 28 hours in the lives of two Palestinian suicide bombers as they prepare for and embark on a deadly operation against Israel, revealing once again just how tragic and perplexing the consequences of the ongoing conflict in the Middle East are.
8) El Houb
Publisher
Dark Star Pictures
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
Arabic
Description
Moroccan-Dutch Karim returns to his family home and opens up to his parents about being attracted to men. Their reaction inspires a journey of discovery through Karim's isolation as he attempts to break an ingrained culture of silence.
Publisher
Doc & Film International
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
Français
Description
Edith, a 45-year-old textile factory worker, sees her life turned upside down by the company's downsizing measures. Estranged from her son and without any other ties, rather than go into unemployment, she decides to leave her life behind and follow her work at the factory which has been relocated in Morocco. Official Selection at the **Toronto International Film Festival**.
10) Rebel
Publisher
Yellow Veil Pictures
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
Arabic
Description
When Kamal resolves to change his life for the better, he leaves Belgium to help war victims in Syria. But, having arrived, he is forced to join ISIS and is left stranded in Raqqa. Back home, his younger brother Nassim quickly becomes easy prey for radical recruiters, who promise to reunite him with his brother. Their mother, Leila, fights to protect the only thing she has left: her youngest son.
Publisher
[Publisher not identified]
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
Two siblings, Nessa and Ephra stein, children of a zionist arms procurer, now run a foundation aiming to reduce the conflict through increasing Palestine's economic prosperity. When Nessa's foundation is about to announce a major business contract with a prominent Palestinian businessman, he is found dead in an apparent suicide. As doubt circles around his cause of death, an international investigation turns into a manhunt.
12) I Am Slave
Publisher
Quiver Distribution
Pub. Date
2010.
Language
English
Description
A thriller about London's shocking slave trade, and one woman's fight for freedom. Attracting the finest names in film production, I AM SLAVE is shocking to the core, while at the same time is one of the most inspiring stories of our time.
13) Incendies
Publisher
Columbia TriStar Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2011]
Language
Français
Description
After the death of their mother, a set of twins make a life-altering discovery. The pair travels to the Middle East on a mission to uncover the truth about the father they thought was dead who is still very much alive, and the brother they never knew existed. Along the way they will piece together the story of the woman who brought them into the world, discovering a tragic fate as well as the courage of an exceptional woman.
14) Mary Magdalene
Publisher
IFC Films
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
Rooney Mara & Joaquin Phoenix star in the moving story of a miraculous woman driven by her faith to follow Jesus. From award-winning director Garth Davis (Lion).
15) Free men
Publisher
Film Movement
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
English
Description
In German-occupied Paris, a young unemployed Algerian named Younes earns his living as a black marketeer. Arrested by the French police but given a chance to avoid jail, Younes agrees to spy on the Paris Mosque. The police suspect the Mosque authorities, including its rector Ben Ghabrit, of aiding Muslim resistance agents and helping North African Jews by giving them false certificates.
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