A 14-year-old girl in 1948 Palestine watches from a locked pantry as catastrophe consumes her home. Read More
Azza El-Hassan's film portrayal of her neighbourhood of Ramallah, a town under fire in the current Middle East conflict. With the threat of violence severely limiting locals' activities, filming becomes the main event, especially for a group of children.
Shooting under extraordinary conditions, the director, who worked with Godard on his "Ici et Ailleurs" ("Here and Elsewhere") - this film was shot on the same 16mm camera - and founded the PLO's film division, covers conditions in Lebanon's refugee camps, the effects of Israeli bombardments, and the lives of guerrillas in training camps. "They Do Not Exist" is a stylistically unique work which explodes at the intersection between the political and the aesthetic.
A barber seeks vengeance after his home is burglarized, cryptically telling police his "Lakshmi" has been taken, leaving them uncertain if it's a person or object, jeer at his request until they learn what they're really looking for. *Dialogues by Nithilan Swaminathan & Raam Murali
FBI agent Jack Crawford is out for revenge when his partner is killed and all clues point to the mysterious assassin Rogue. But when Rogue turns up years later to take care of some unfinished business, he triggers a violent clash of rival gangs. Will the truth come out before it's too late? And when the dust settles, who will remain standing?
Indian migrant worker Najeeb Muhammad goes to Saudi Arabia to earn money. However, in a twist of fate, he finds himself living a slave-like existence, herding goats in the middle of the desert.
The film's events are based on the last part of the novel "Al-Harafish" by the writer Naguib Mahfouz. In the old Cairo area, in the era of bullies and thugs, the bully Hassouna Al-Sabaa (Hamdi Ghaith) imposes large fees on the people of the neighborhood and goes to extremes in oppressing and humiliating them. Hassouna oppresses the family of Ashour Al-Naji (Ezzat Al-Alaili), whose circumstances fluctuate between wealth and extreme poverty. Hassouna forces him to divorce his wife (Taisir Fahmy) and leave the neighborhood, then tries to force her father and the notary to marry her to him before the end of the waiting period...
All unemployed, Ki-taek's family takes peculiar interest in the wealthy and glamorous Parks for their livelihood until they get entangled in an unexpected incident.
After a Tibetan boy, the mystical Golden Child, is kidnapped by the evil Sardo Numspa, humankind's fate hangs in the balance. On the other side of the world in Los Angeles, the priestess Kee Nang seeks the Chosen One, who will save the boy from death. When Nang sees social worker Chandler Jarrell on television discussing his ability to find missing children, she solicits his expertise, despite his skepticism over being "chosen."
A fictional history of two legendary revolutionaries' journey away from home before they began fighting for their country in the 1920s.
