Condom Lead (2013)

Actors: Paul Fischer (producer), Rashid Abdelhamid (actor), Maria Mohammad (actress), Rashid Abdelhamid (producer), Zaid Baqaeen (editor), Maria Mohammedi (actor), Khalil al Mozian (writer), Arab Nasser (writer), Tarazan Nasser (writer), Eloise van van Vollenstein (actor), Ahmad Abou Nasser (director), Mohammed Abou Nasser (director),

Plot: It is a story that could happen anywhere . Anywhere there is, ever has been, or ever will be war; anywhere there is a man and a woman and a room. An intense, darkly comic study of what becomes of ordinary passions between a man and his wife in the long interstices of war's heightened reality, Condom Lead is a story about sexual frustration on the edge of time's knife and in the crosshairs of war's guns, a dream of the hope for intimacy and love in a brutal, divisive world.

Genres: Drama, Short, War,

Asia (2013)

Actors: Ahmed Helmy (producer), Mona Zaki (actress), Bassem Samra (actor), Hani Adel (actor), Sayed Ragab (actor), Salwa Mohamed Ali (actress), Raouf Mustafa (actor), Abbas Abu El-Hassan (writer), Afaf Rashad (actress), Mostafa Gaafar (actor), Tamim Abdo (actor), Saba Mubarak (actress), Nabil Subhi (producer), Samia Asaad (actress), Omar Hassan Youssef (actor),

Genres: Action, Crime, Drama,

Inheritance (2012)

Actors: Hiam Abbass (director), Hiam Abbass (writer), Hiam Abbass (actress), Guy Lecorne (editor), Yariv Mozer (producer), Arik Bernstein (actor), Arik Bernstein (producer), Makram Khoury (actor), Hafsia Herzi (actress), Nicolas Blanc (producer), Bandar Albuliwi (miscellaneous crew), Bandar Albuliwi (actor), Ali Suliman (actor), Loïc Dury (composer), Yussuf Abu-Warda (actor),

Plot: As a new conflict opposes Israel and Lebanon, Hajar, a young Palestinian student, returns to her native village in Galilee on the occasion of a wedding in the family. Just before the ceremony, she goes to see her father, patriarch Abu Majd, who has always encouraged her to learn and to discover the world. It is with confidence that she tells him about the man she loves, Matthew, an English art teacher at the university of Haifa. His negative reaction upsets her...

Keywords: coma, family-crisis, family-relationships, fictional-war, hospital, israel-lebanon-war, love, marriage, one-word-title, title-directed-by-female
Genres: Drama,

Hallo Kayro (2011)

Actors: Hassan Hosny (actor), Ahmed Bedir (actor), Sulayman Id (actor), Tareq Al-Ali (actor), Tareq Al-Ali (actor), Sali Al-Qadhi (actress), Ayman Makram (director), Muhammad Al-Sawi (actor), Muhammad Al-Ujaimi (actor), Shehab Hajiyyah (actor), Ala Mursi (actor),

Genres: Comedy,

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.

Sepi (2008)

Actors: Afdlin Shauki (actor), Mohd Pierre Andre (actor), Naeim Ghalili (producer), Vanida Imran (actress), Eizlan Yusof (actor), Rosihan Zain (producer), Dian P. Ramlee (actress), Riezman Khuzaini (actor), Ahmad Puad Onah (producer), Kabir Bhatia (director), Nasha Aziz (actress), Tony Eusoff (actor), Irma Hasmie (actress), Sazzy Falak (actress), Louisa Chong (actress),

Genres: Drama, Romance,

Howa Al Naharda Aih (2007)

Actors: Gehan Rateb (actress), Hassan Abdel Hamid (actor), Mohamed Gamal (producer), Wael Awad (composer), Sameh Alshwady (director), Ashraf Allam (editor), Kamal Abo Rayia (actor), Maher Zohdy (writer),

Genres: Short,

Blackout (2007)

Actors: Jeffrey Wright (actor), Melvin Van Peebles (actor), Zoe Saldana (actress), Saul Rubinek (actor), Jeffrey Wright (producer), LaTanya Richardson (actress), Jamie Hector (actor), Prodigy (actor), Sean Blakemore (actor), Chris Bongirne (producer), Chris Bongirne (producer), LeRoy McCarthy (miscellaneous crew), Michael B. Jordan (actor), Anthony Chisholm (actor), Richard T. Lynch (miscellaneous crew),

Plot: BLACKOUT takes you inside the personal journey of what went down and what it was really like in Brooklyn, NY on August 14. It examines the nature of man to take advantage of his own fellow man outside of normal conditions, in times of weakness and vulnerability

Genres: Drama,

Just Your Average Arab (2006)

Actors: Ahmed Ahmed (writer), Ahmed Ahmed (actor), Peter Berkrot (actor), Tarek Moussa (actor), Raouf Zaki (director), Raouf Zaki (producer), Raouf Zaki (writer), Raouf Zaki (editor), Rosa J. Colón (costume designer), Chris Smalley (producer), Mark Zaki (composer), Salma Abu Ayyash (actress), David O'Leary (actor), Peter Khoury (actor), Anouchka Roggeman (actress),

Genres: Comedy, Short,

Bosta (2005)

Actors: Sabah (actress), Nadine Labaki (actress), Philippe Aractingi (director), Philippe Aractingi (producer), Philippe Aractingi (writer), Mahmoud Mabsout (actor), Nada Abou Farhat (actress), Raya Meddine (actress), Rodney El Haddad (actor), Liliane Nemri (actress), Dana K. Trometer (editor), Martin Russell (composer), Bshara Atallah (actor), Simon Emmerson (composer), Omar Rajeh (actor),

Plot: Fifteen years after a traumatic explosion in his native Beirut, Kamal Maf'ouss returns from France, where he was nationalized and become a composer-choreographer. He reassembles youth friends from his late pa's multicultural school. They pimp a decommissioned school bus to tour the country in preparation of Lebanon's annual festival of the choral dance-song genre Debka. Opinions clash on their modern, cosmopolitan version of a traditional genre, even among their friends and family, while other personal problems complicate matters further.

Keywords: bomb, childhood-friend, dance, dance-contest, dancing, explosion, friendship, gay-bashing, gay-character, lebanon
Genres: Musical, War,