Noor (2012)

Actors: Murray Bartlett (producer), Ahmed Ibrahim (writer), Ahmed Ibrahim (director), Brian Abel (producer), Ahmed Amer (producer), Mohamed Said (actor), Onos (actor), Islam Shaban (actor), Fatma Ahmed (actress), Rahma Aymen (actress), Oum Mohamed (actress), Haja Soraya (actress), Norhan Tawakul (actress), Tamer Eissa (producer), Olivier Lacheze-Beer (producer),

Plot: In a working class suburb of Cairo, Egypt, where lives are intertwined and everybody knows each other's business, thirteen year old Fingo wants to hang lights in his street for Ramadan. Many in his neighborhood try to dissuade him, or say it's not possible. This makes him more determined, but he only has two days, and the obstacles he faces seem insurmountable.

Genres: Drama, Short,

Lamma dehket Monaliza (2012)

Actors: Nadine Toukan (producer), Nabil Koni (actor), George David (producer), Rawan Babia (producer), Fadi Haddad (director), Fadi Haddad (writer), Fadi Haddad (editor), Sharif Majali (producer), Suha Najjar (actress), Nadira Omran (actress), Shady Khalaf (actor), Haya Kattan (miscellaneous crew), Amin Safi (actor), Waleed Laham (miscellaneous crew), Nadia Eliewat (producer),

Genres: Comedy, Romance,

Et maintenant on va où? (2011)

Actors: Tarak Ben Ammar (producer), Karin Dor (actress), Anne-Dominique Toussaint (producer), Romain Le Grand (producer), Véronique Lange (editor), Nadine Labaki (producer), Nadine Labaki (writer), Nadine Labaki (actress), Nadine Labaki (director), Thomas Bidegain (writer), Frederick Stafford (actor), Yannick Charles (miscellaneous crew), Abla Khoury (producer), Sam Nessim (writer), Khaled Mouzannar (composer),

Plot: Christians and Muslims lived peacefully together for years in this small Lebanese village, but animosities begin to build among the men as a result of slights and misunderstandings. The women of the village conspire to avert sectarian strife though a series of harebrained plans, none of which succeeds in slowing down the escalating spiral of violence. When tragedy strikes, the women find themselves driven to make a deeply personal sacrifice for the sake of peace.

Keywords: christian, christianity, hijab, imam, islam, lebanon, middle-east, muslim, priest, punctuation-in-title
Genres: Comedy, Drama,

Quotes:

[first lines]::Amale: [narrating] The story I tell is for all who want to hear. A tale of those who fast, a tale of those who pray, a tale of a lonely town, mines scattered all around. Caught up in a war, split to its very core. To clans with broken hearts under a burning sun. Their hands stained with blood in the name of a cross or a crescent. From this lonely place, which has chosen peace, whose history is spun of barbed wire and guns.

Amale: It's definitely blood.::Rita: Is it a sign? God is speaking to us.::Aïda: Yes. He's trying to tell us you're dumb. It's chicken blood, stupid.

Rita: [about visitors] They look like they've been in a famine. Look at that anorexic one. And the other, flat as a board. Our smallest pair of boobs could feed half of the Ukraine!

Tatiana: [seeing cemetery] Even dead they're divided.

Priest: Did we get away with it?::Imam: Down here maybe. But up there, I'm not so sure. [pointing heavenward]

[last lines]::Amale: [narrating] My story is now ending for all those who were listening, of a town where peace was found while fighting continued all around. Of men who slept so deep and woke to find new peace. Of women still in black, who fought with flowers and prayers instead of guns and flares, and protect their children. Destiny then drove them to find a new way.::Pallbearers: [suddenly remembering that the cemetery is segregated] Where do we go now?

Takla: Fate is a great provider.

La likatem el sawt (2010)

Actors: Saara Lamberg (actress), Selva Rasalingam (actor), Noel le Bon (actor), Arno Hazebroek (actor), Marcel Khalife (composer), Rob Marni (actor), Jonas Khan (actor), Satu Helena Mikkelinen (actress), Peter Bacon (actor), Federico Natoli (actor), Georgia Christou (actress), Yusuf Khamisa (actor), Omar Alomar (actor), Federico Natoli (actor), Amra Mallassi (actor),

Plot: The two-part docu-drama "La Likatem El Sawt" ("No for the Silencer") investigates the life, death, work and legacy of the Palestinian cartoonist Naji al-Ali. Deported as a child from Palestine to Lebanon in 1948, he discovered drawing and became a political cartoonist. Drawing over 40,000 cartoons, which often depicted very critical commentaries on Israel, Palestinian and Arab politics and political leaders. Naji was shot in broad daylight on the streets in London in 1987. The documentary reconstructs the events surrounding Naji's assassination. His friends, family, colleagues and key witnesses talk about who had a vested interest in silencing Naji.

Keywords: cartoonist, investigation, political-assassination, reenactment
Genres: Documentary,

Ightisab (1989)

Actors: Ahmed Bedir (actor), Farouk Al-Fishawy (actor), Abdalah Mishrif (actor), Fouad Khalil (actor), Nagah El-Mogui (actor), Hanem Mohamed (actress), Ali Abdel-Khalek (director), Hoda Ramzi (actress), Abdel Hafeez El-Tatawy (actor),

Genres: ,

Al-azraa wa al shaar al abyad (1983)

Actors: Nabila Ebeid (actress), Mariam Fakhr Eddine (actress), Mahmoud Abdel Aziz (actor), Rashida Abdel Salam (editor), Ihsan Abd al-Qudus (writer), Hussein Kamal (director), Hamdy Youssef (actor), Hanem Mohamed (actress), Sherihan (actress), Mamdouh Abd El Aleem (actor), Ibrahim Qadry (actor), Afaf Rashad (actress), Mahmoud Al Qalaawi (actor), Kawsar Heikal (writer), Kawsar Heikal (writer),

Genres: ,

Gharib fi Bayti (1982)

Actors: Soad Hosny (actress), Nour El-Sherif (actor), Hassan Mustafa (actor), Wahid Hamid (writer), Wahid Seif (actor), Aly El Cherif (actor), Nabila El Sayed (actress), Samir Seif (director), George Sidhum (actor), Hayatem (actress), Moemen Hassan (actor),

Genres: Comedy, Romance,

Madrasat El-Moshaghebeen (1973)

Actors: Nour El-Sherif (actor), Tewfik El Dekn (actor), Mohamed Reda (actor), Mervat Amin (actress), Sameer Ghanem (actor), Abdel Moneim Madbouly (actor), Mohamed Awad (actor), Youssef Fakhr Eddine (actor), Zakaria Mouafi (actor), Sayed Zayan (actor), George Sidhum (actor), Hossam Eddine Mostafa (director),

Genres: Comedy, Drama, Musical, Romance,

Azmat Sakan (1972)

Actors: Youssef Wahby (actor), Tewfik El Dekn (actor), Helmy Rafla (director), Imad Hamdi (actor), Abdel Moneim Ibrahim (actor), Mohamed Reda (actor), Mervat Amin (actress), Mohamed Awad (actor), Nabil El-Hegrassy (actor), Ibrahim Saafan (actor), Faisal Nada (writer), Zozo Shakeeb (actress),

Genres: Comedy, Romance,