100% Arabica
Director: Mahmoud Zemmouri
France/Belgium/Switzerland
The mayor, who is hoping for re-election, isn’t impressed with the surrounding atmosphere and wants ...
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Edition 2
33 Films
3 Sections
General (15 films)
Arak El Balah
Director: Radwan Al Kashef
Egypt
In a small village in South of Egypt, a strange convoy arrives calling the men to lands of bounty an...
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Keswa
Director: Kaltoum Bornaz
Tunis / Morocco / France
Nozha, a Tunisian young woman, left her country and got married against her family's will. Now, Nozh...
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L'Honneur de Ma Famille
Director: Rachid Bouchareb
Algeria/France
Nora's parents are conservative Algerian immigrants. She manages to live skillfully enough to live a...
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La Nuit du Destin
Director: AbdelKariim Bahloul
France
In Paris, an old Arab, Mr. Slimani, is a witness to a murder at the mosque. The police want him to r...
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Mektoub
Director: Nabil Ayouch
Morocco / France
After spending ten years in the United States, where he trained as an ophthalmologist, Taoufik retur...
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A Moment of Innocence
Director: Mohsen Makhmalbaf
Iran/France
An old policeman, in his middle age, visits his friend, who works as a director in Tehran, to ask hi...
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Taste of the Cherry
Director: Abbas Kiarostami
Iran
One autumn afternoon, a middle-aged man decides to commit suicide. However, in order to do this, he ...
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Gabbe
Director: Mohsen Makhmalbaf
Iran/France
Gabbe is the story of a girl who weaves a rug during her tribe's migration, influenced by the events...
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Leila
Director: Dariush Mehrjui
Iran
Leila, a young woman who has married the man she loves ardently, discovers that she can never have a...
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Through The Olive Trees
Director: Abbas Kiarostami
Iran/France
A young worker living in a village in Rubar is in love with a girl whose parents are against their d...
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The Pear Tree
Director: Dariush Mehrjui
Iran
Mahmud, a middle-aged poet and writer, travels to his birth place in the Bagh Damavand to write a bo...
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Beyrouth Fantôme
Director: Ghassan Salhab
Lebanon/France
The end of the eighties. The Lebanese conflict seems to drag on. Khalil, a man of thirty years old, ...
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Berlin Cinema
Director: Samira Gloor-Fadel
France/Switzerland
A long meditation on the blank: the picture, the cinema, the city, the place: Berlin. Win Wenders sw...
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West Beirut
Director: Ziad Doueir
Lebanon/France
The film is set on April 13, 1975, the first official day of the Lebanese Civil War. It follows two ...
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Character
Director: Mike Van Diem
Denmark
A respectable young lawyer is arrested after the city's most feared bailiff is found murdered. The y...
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Dance with Me
Director: Randa Haines
USA
Ruby grew up in an "Army brat" - never in one place for long, always the new girl in school. She fee...
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Dharma Blue Dumbs
Director: Andreas Thomopoulos
Greece
The ordinary story of two Dostoevsky characters in the days of DNA, the Mafia, the Stock Exchange an...
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The End of Violence
Director: Wim Wenders
USA/Germany
Mike Max is a Hollywood producer who has grown big, rich, and powerful by making extremely violent a...
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Hana Bi
Director: Takeshi Kitano
Japan
Police detective Nishi visits his wife in the hospital even though he should really be at a stakeout...
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Les Caprices D'un Fleuve
Director: Bernard Giraudeau
France
In 1787, France is already seething with inevitable revolution. The Age of Enlightenment ignites. Je...
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Live Flesh
Director: Pedro Almodovar
Spain
Victor falls in love with the rich girl Helena. When he rings her doorbell, the junkie girl is expec...
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Marius et Jeanette
Director: Robert Guédiguian
France
Jeanette is a working mother who has managed to bring up two children on the meager wages she earns ...
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Ma Vie En Rose
Director: Alain Berliner
France/Belgium
Ludvic is a little boy who dreams of being a little girl. What seems normal to him doesn't seem that...
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Perfumed Ball
Director: Paolo Caldas and Lirio Ferreira
Brazil
Benjamin Abrahão was a Lebanese immigrant who arrived in Brazil in 1910. He subsequently went to Bra...
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Shall We Dance
Director: Masayuki Suo
Japan
A businessman on a train catches sight of a beautiful woman as he passes a dance school. In order to...
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Somersault in a Coffin
Director: Dervis Zaim
Turkey
Tabut (coffin) is a small place, confining a person only to his own dimensions. Istanbul, as the mos...
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Welcome to Sarajevo
Director: Michael Winterbottom
UK/USA
A piece about a journalist who was in Sarajevo and his reaction to it, his feelings of powerlessness...
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Train to Pakistan
Director: Pamela Rook
India
It is the summer of 1947. The frontier has become a scene of bloodshed. But in the village, where Si...
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Destinée
Director: Mohamed Soueid
Lebanon/Belgium
The filmmaker recalls the life of his grandparents, Syrian migrants in Lebanon. The grandfather call...
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Living Icons
Director: Dimitri Khodr
Lebanon
The film is based on the log book written by the director and his team in search of the Christians i...
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Crazy for You
Director: Akram Zaatari
Lebanon
Set in the industrial suburbs of Beirut, Majnounak portrays three marginals, who count very openly t...
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Kidnappés
Director: Bahij Hojeyi
Lebanon
This film is only the camera exploring the other hidden face of kidnapping, and registering the forg...
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