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Caramel
Foreign Films
Warm and sweet, this Lebanese film lives up to its titular substance without ever being too sugary. Actress Nadine Labaki cowrote and directed CARAMEL, an ensemble comedy set in and...... read more
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Tale Of The Three Jewels
Foreign Films
Pre-teen boy Yussef avoids the Palestinian-Israeli conflict by going birdwatching in this touching feature. Yussef falls in love with a gypsy girl on his travels, but must find three...... read more
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Wanderers Of The Desert
Foreign Films
From acclaimed storyteller, poet, and filmmaker Mohamed Al-Nasir Al-Khumeir comes this first installment of his DESERT TRILOGY. The hallucinogenic qualities of the desert are captured...... read more
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Fertile Memory
Foreign Films
In the first feature film produced within the Palestinian West Bank "Green Line," Michel Khleifi's FERTILE MEMORY combines documentary and narrative elements to examine the lives of...... read more
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The Dove's Lost Necklace
Foreign Films
In the tradition of THE THOUSAND AND ONE NIGHTS and other mythical Arabic tales, comes this gorgeous film by poetic storyteller Mohamed Al-Nasir Al-Khumeir. This 1990 production marks...... read more
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A Glass and a Cigarette
Foreign Films
Samia Gamal headlines director Niazi Mostafa's adaptation of Abdel Aziz Salam's story about a renowned dancer who gives up her stage career to start a family. When graceful starlet...... read more
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Mother of the Bride
Foreign Films
Egyptian screen icons Tahiya Karioka and Emad Hamdi star in director Atef Salem's madcap comedy about a pair of exhausted parents seeking to raise the funds for their eldest daughter's...... read more
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Struggle On The Nile
Foreign Films
The classic but little-seen Egyptian film STRUGGLE ON THE NILE features dashingly handsome leading man Omar Sharif in one of his earliest screen roles (three years before his international...... read more
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T.V.'s Promised Land
Foreign Films
With this collage of found footage, director Nicholas Dembowski draws attention to the negative way in which American and European media portray the Arab and Muslim communities. Throughout...... read more
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The Other
Foreign Films
A dalliance between the son of a wealthy businessman and a female reporter investigating corruption linked to his parents lands the pair in a whole lot of trouble in this moving drama...... read more
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The Emigrant
Foreign Films
The story of THE EMIGRANT is loosely based around the Biblical tale of Joseph. The central character of Ram is the Joseph-like figure, who casts himself out into the wilds of Egypt...... read more
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