Middle Eastern Studies

Ajami

Nominated for a Best Foreign Language Film Oscar®, and winner of many international film prize...

Alila

In Alila, director Amos Gitai (Kedma, Kadosh), "Israel's one-man new wave," (The Village Voice) has ...

Armadillo

ARMADILLO is a raw and unforgettable journey into the war in Afghanistan. Mads and Daniel are Danish...

Beaufort

Academy Award® NOMINEE BEST FOREIGN LANGUAGE FILM After 18 years dug into a heavily fortified ...

5 Broken Cameras

ACADEMY AWARD NOMINEE - BEST DOCUMENTARY FEATURE An extraordinary work of both cinematic and politi...

Colliding Dreams

COLLIDING DREAMS recounts the dramatic history of one of the most controversial, and urgently releva...

Eldorado

Eldorado draws inspiration from Academy Award® nominee Markus Imhoof's personal childhood r...

3 Faces

Iranian director Jafar Panahi’s fourth completed feature since he was officially banned from f...

Fatima

Fatima lives with her two teenage daughters and works cleaning jobs to pay their way through school....

Four Daughters

2024 Academy Award® Nominee – Best Documentary Feature Film One of the year's most acclai...

Halfaouine

Set against the sensual, erotic backdrop of modern Tunisia, renowned Arab critic-turned-filmmaker Fe...

Kippur

From the director of Kadosh, an official selection at the Cannes, New York and Toronto Film Festival...

Manuscripts Don't Burn

Clandestinely produced in disavowal of a 20-year filmmaking ban passed down by the Iranian authoriti...

Arabian Nights (2015)

Arabian Nights is a monumental and dazzlingly original three-part film by Miguel Gomes (Tabu) that u...

Circle of Deceit

Shot on location in the still smoldering streets of Beirut, Circle of Deceit is a film of riveting t...

A History of Israeli Cinema

Raphaël Nadjari’s extraordinary two-part documentary weaves together clips from more than...

Horses of God

Ten year-old Yachine and his 13-year-old brother Hamid live in Sidi Moumen, an impoverished slum on ...

Omar

Omar is accustomed to dodging surveillance bullets to cross the separation wall to visit his secret ...

As I Open My Eyes

As I Open My Eyes depicts the clash between culture and family as seen through the eyes of a young T...

La Petite Jerusalem

Winner of the script prize at the 2005 Cannes Film Festival, Karin Albou's La Petite Jérusal...

Red Lines

The news from the Middle East worsens daily into a nightmare scenario - one eerily foretold in 2012 ...

Cinema Sabaya

A group of Palestinian and Israeli women attend a video workshop at a small town community center ru...

A Sinner in Mecca

For a gay filmmaker, filming in Saudi Arabia presents two serious challenges: filming is forbid...

Of Fathers and Sons

After his Sundance award-winning documentary Return to Homs, Talal Derki returned to his homeland wh...

A Strange Course of Events

Shaul is a melancholic dreamer, with a tendency to run whenever things go wrong. He returns to Haifa...

Jafar Panahi's Taxi

Internationally acclaimed director Jafar Panahi (This is Not a Film) drives a yellow cab through the...

Tehran Taboo

In this gorgeously animated drama, the lives of several strong-willed women and a young musician int...

The Challenge (2017 documentary)

Italian visual artist Yuri Ancarani’s exquisite documentary enters the surreal world of wealth...

Hit the Road

Panah Panahi, son and collaborator of embattled filmmaker Jafar Panahi and apprentice to Iranian mas...

Arab Labor: The Complete First Season

ARAB LABOR is a raucous and irreverent critically acclaimed comedy series from Israel about Amjad, a...

Rabin, The Last Day

For many Israelis, the assassination of Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin in 1995 marked a grim turning p...

Salt of This Sea

An urgent and devastating portrait of life in Palestine, SALT OF THIS SEA is essential viewing. Six...

Time of Favor

Winner of six Israeli Academy Awards, including Best Picture, and highly acclaimed in its U.S. the...

Tough Being Loved by Jerks

Because he had published the twelve Danish cartoons that had triggered the wrath of Muslims worldwid...

Iranian Cinema Before and After the Revolution

Dr. Jamsheed Akrami is a scholar of Iranian cinema. A former editor of Iranian film magazines, he ha...

Uprising

In January 2011, millions of Egyptians took to the streets in a spontaneous eruption against thirty ...

Arabian Nights: Volume 2, The Desolate One

Arabian Nights: Volume 2, The Desolate One In which Scheherazade tells of how desolation invaded me...

Arabian Nights: Volume 1, The Restless One

Volume 1, The Restless One In which Scheherazade tells of the restlessness that befell the country:...

Arabian Nights: Volume 3, The Enchanted One

Arabian Nights: Volume 3, The Enchanted One In which Scheherazade doubts that she will still be abl...

The Wanted 18

Through a clever mix of stop motion animation and interviews, The Wanted 18 recreates an astonishing...

The War Tapes

The war in Iraq has been the most covered conflict in history. 2,700 embedded reporters, instant&nbs...

West of the Jordan River

Amos Gitai (Rabin, The Last Day; Kadosh; Free Zone) returns to the occupied territories for the...

Whose Country?

A young Egyptian filmmaker gains first-hand accounts of corruption and abuse within the security for...

What Will People Say

Sixteen-year-old Nisha (Maria Mozhdah) lives a double life. When out with her friends, she’s a...

Times and Winds

Winner of the Best Film and FIPRESCI prizes at the Istanbul International Film Festival, Reha Erd...

Yom Yom

In Yom Yom, the second film in Amos Gitai's (Devarim, Kadosh) celebrated "City Trilogy," Israel's ...

When I Saw You

Jordan, 1967. The world is alive with change: brimming with reawakened energy, new styles, music and...

Homeland: Iraq Year Zero

Part 1: 160 minutes, Part II: 174 minutes   In February 2002 - about a year before the U.S. i...

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