2006
Egypt
Color/35mm/86min/Orig. Language: Arabic |
| Mahmoud a teacher at the High Institute of Acting meets "Hind" the young actress who wants to subscribe at the institute. Their relationship grows stronger after a mutual misunderstanding. Thanks to this relationship "Mahmoud" explores the real meaning of life and thinking. |
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- Director: Kamla Abou Zeikry
- Script: Ahmed El Nasser, Samy Hossam
- D.O.P.: Ahmed El Morsy
- Music: Khaled Shokry
- Editing: Dina Farouk
- Cast: Mahmoud Hemeida, Hind Sabry, Khaled Abou El Naga, Aida Ryiad
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2004
UK - South Africa
Color/35mm/110min/Orig. Language: English
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Police officer Dirk Hendrick files an amnesty application for Alex Mpondo, a member of the South African Parliament who can’t rememeber the torture he once endured as a captive political activist. Meanwhile, South African-born attorney Sarah Barcant returns to her homeland to represent Mpondo, as well as Steve Sizela, Mpondo’s friend who was arrested along with him and never heard from again. |
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- Director: Tom Hopper
- Written by: Troy Kennedy-Martin, from Gillian Slovo’s
- Cast: Hilary Swank, Chiwetel Ejiofor, Ian Roberts
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2005
Egypt
Color/DV-cam/15min/Orig. Language: Arabic
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| "Beit Min Lahm" (House of Flesh) deals forcefully with issues of class and sexual taboos.The story involves a blind Quran reciter (reader) who marries a widow with three daughters.Knowing her daughters are too poor to marry, the widow allows all three of them to sleep with her blind but young and healthy husband. Each night one of the daughters wears the widow's wedding ring in order to fool him. The quran reciter suspects something is amiss, but doesn't question his good fortune in the bedroom. |
- Director: Rami Abdul Jabbar
- Script coordinator: Omar Shama
- D.O.P.: Karim El Hakim
- Production: Mohamed Mourad, Rami Abdul Jabbar, Karim El Hakim, Nanice Labib
- Editor: Rami Abd El Jabbar
- Cast: Mona Mokhtar, Asser Yassin, Yara Goubran, Farah Youssef, Mona Hala
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2005
Germany
Color/35mm/117min/Orig. Language: German
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Munich, 1943: Sophie and Hans Scholl are members of the "Wei?e Rose" (White Rose), a resistance group against the Nazi regime. When the siblings lay out fliers at the university, they are caught by the caretaker who calls the Gestapo. After their imprisonment, they are interrogated for days. In the beginning, Sophie manages to bluff the questioning official Robert Mohr, but Hans finally confesses everything.Now Sophie vindicates her ideals, but also tries to protect the other group members. |
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On February 22nd, the Scholls and their aide Christoph Probst are accused of high treason and sentenced to death. In her last days, Sophie exhibits remarkable courage. |
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- Director: Marc Rothemund
- Cast: Julia Jentsch, Fabian Hinrichs, Julia Jentsch
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2004
Tunisia
Color/35mm/87min/Orig. Language: Arabic
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| An entertaining parody of the increasingly sophisticated acrobatic feats that Tunisians are forced to perform to obtain an entry visa to France. The latest imaginary law on immigration imposes a new test to pass: a dictation in French. The visa is obtained only if there are no mistakes. For poor Rachid this is the start of a forced immersion in the French language: programmes on French culture, music by Trenet and "nouvelle cuisine"... |
- Director: Ibrahim Letaief
- Written by: Ibrahim Letaief
- Cast: Jamal Madani, Jamila Chihi, Lotfi Dziri
- Camera: Sofiéne El-Fani
- Sound: Yves Lévesque
- Editor: Nadia Ben Rachid
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2003
Algeria
Color/DV-cam/15min/Orig. Language: Arabic
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| The everyday life of an Algerian young man, aged 25 who lives in the neighbourhoud of "Sidi Bel Abbas", and who awaits everyday news about his promised visa to France. Boredom fills his life with void; but a rumour that the weekend will be changed from Saturday-Sunday to Thursday-Friday breaks the monotone of his boring life. |
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- Director: Mohamed Latréche
- Script: Hany Abu Assad, Bero Piyar
- Cast: Lubna Azabal, Hiam Abbas, Kais Nashef
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2006
France
Color/35mm/106min/Org.Language: French
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Tatherine's a hit on TV; ahe's famous, popular, adored. And yet, all she dreams of is to be in art-house movies and appreciated by the intellectual set. Jean-FranCois, an exceptionally gifted, adulated, overbooked pianist, will be playing beethoven in the world's greatest theatre, with the best musicianas, the most refind audience...And yet, all he dreams about is solitude, freedom, and an ignorant |
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and na?ve audience. Jacques's whole life has been spent looking for and discovering artists. In one night, his life's work will be scattered to the four winds. His grandmother, a formal palace toilet attendant, told him: "I didn't have the means to live in luxury, so I decided to work in luxurious surroundings." One day, Jessica also tries her luck in Paris. On the 17th, staff are needed and she is hired in a café opposite the two theatres and the auction house. It's here that the actress, pianist, waitress, concierge, collector, one of her sons and another ones wife, come to heal their neurosis over a coffee or some fries.. |
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- Director: Daniele Thompson
- Cast: Cécile de France, Albert Dupontel, Valérie Lemercier, Claude Brasseur
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2004
Algeria
Color /30 min. / Org.Language: Arabic
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| Idriss returns to Algeria to spend his vacation with his female cousins and their strict brother, Amran. This atmosphere irritates him, and reflect on Nadjma, the girl he lones for. |
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- Director: Lyes Salem
- Cast: Jamal Madani, Jamila Chihi, Lotfi Dziri
- Camera: Sofiéne El-Fani
- Sound: Yves Lévesque
- Editor: Nadia Ben Rachid
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2006
Egypt
Color /9 min. / Org.Language: Arabic
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| An unusual morning "Sanaa" is looking for her lost apartment keys she has to go through unpleasant moments she had been trying to forget, it's a "Good Morning". |
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- Director: Sherif El Bendary
- Cast: Hend Sabry
- Steady Cam.: Ahmed El Moursy
- D.O.P: Ahmed Gaber
- Music: Khaled Shoukry
- Sound: Ahmed Gaber
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2004
Egypt
Color/15 min./DV-Cam/ Org.Language: Arabic
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| The films starts with a young girl getting into an elevator and as she presses the button the elevator moves, but then it breaks down and she's stuck. She calls for help but no one |
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| hears her she tries to use her cell phone but she finds she has run out of credit. Suddenly her phone rings and she feels hope but she's soon disappointed when it runs out to be a wrong number someone who wants to talk to "Seham" she corrects the person by telling him her name "Shaimaa" and hangs up. The young man on the other end of the line calls again and again. |
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- Director: Hadil Nazmi
- Cast: Laila Samy
- Editor: Kaizer
- D.O.P: Kaiser
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