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Les mécréants (2011)

Actors: Nicolas Wadimoff (producer), Omar Lotfi (actor), Michel Merkt (producer), Naima Bachiri (editor), Amine Ennaji (actor), Mohcine Besri (writer), Mohcine Besri (director), Mohcine Besri (producer), Maria Lalouaz (actress), Aïssam Bouali (actor), Mustapha El Houari (actor), Philippe Heritier (composer), Abdenbi El Beniwi (actor), Rabii Benjhaile (actor), Abdenib El Beniwi (actor),

Plot: On the order of their spiritual leader, three young Islamists kidnap a group of actors who are about to go on tour with their latest show. When the kidnappers arrive at the place of detention, they find themselves cut off from their base. Ensues a 7-day no exit situation, in which both sides are forced to live together, confront each other and challenge their mutual prejudices.

Keywords: huis-clos, islam, morocco, sociodrama, terrorist-victim
Genres: Drama,

Beirut... Hide & Seek (2010)

Actors: Nathan Matthew David (composer), John Prudhont (actor), Darine Hotait (director), Darine Hotait (costume designer), Darine Hotait (producer), Darine Hotait (producer), Darine Hotait (writer), Charles Marina (actor), Hamzah Saman (actor), Jennifer Eagle (actress), Veronica Parks (actress), Rita Qatami (actress), Abazar Noorizad (editor), Abazar Noorizad (actor), Pierre Nasnas (actor),

Genres: Comedy, Drama, Romance, Short, War,

The Eagle Path (2010)

Actors: Jean-Claude Van Damme (actor), Moshe Diamant (producer), Jean-Claude Van Damme (director), Jean-Claude Van Damme (writer), Jean-Claude Van Damme (editor), Jean-Claude Van Damme (producer), Bashar Rahal (actor), John Colton (actor), Ron Smoorenburg (actor), Mila Maslarova (miscellaneous crew), Josef Cannon (actor), Russell Geoffrey Banks (actor), Cal Rein (actor), Byron Gibson (actor), David Firestar (actor),

Genres: Action, Crime, Drama, Romance,
Taglines: Haunted by the past, his vengeance knows no limits.

Chaque jour est une fête (2009)

Actors: Hiam Abbass (actress), Claire Viroulaud (miscellaneous crew), Charles-Edouard Renault (miscellaneous crew), Jacques Comets (editor), Thierry Lenouvel (producer), Karim Saleh (actor), Hanneke Van der Tas (producer), Rabih Mroue (writer), Sabine Sidawi-Hamdan (producer), Fadi Abi Samra (actor), Sabine Sidawi-Hamdan (producer), Nicole Gerhards (producer), Jinane Dagher (miscellaneous crew), Pierre Aviat (composer), Dima El-Horr (writer),

Plot: It's Independence Day in Lebanon: three women who've never met before are on the same bus heading to visit a prison situated in a remote area of the country. Traveling through an arid landscape littered with mines and decapitated dreams, the journey transforms into the women's quest for their own independence.

Genres: Drama,

Oh Snap! I'm Trapped in the House with a Crazy Lunatic Serial Killer! (2008)

Actors: Caleb Emerson (editor), Vanessa Born (producer), Vanessa Born (writer), Vanessa Born (actress), Blake Armstrong (actor), Blake Armstrong (producer), Christian Omari (writer), Christian Omari (actress), Christian Omari (producer), D'Kristian Lamar (actor), Kanesha Washington (actress), Shawn Richardson (actor), Jamie Elvey (actress), Nina Reed (miscellaneous crew), Pete Caslavka (actor),

Genres: Thriller,
Taglines: A group of childhood friends meet disaster at a house party when they begin to pop up missing one by one. The Romantic Comedy that will make you scream.

La giusta distanza (2007)

Actors: Domenico Procacci (producer), Ivano Marescotti (actor), Fabrizio Bentivoglio (actor), Giuseppe Battiston (actor), Carlo Mazzacurati (director), Carlo Mazzacurati (writer), Paolo Cottignola (editor), Doriana Leondeff (writer), Francesca Sartori (costume designer), Valentina Lodovini (actress), Fadila Belkebla (actress), Marina Rocco (actress), Mark Orton (composer), Stefano Scandaletti (actor), Dario Cantarelli (actor),

Genres: Drama,

Babel (2006)

Actors: Cate Blanchett (actress), Steve Golin (producer), Peter Wight (actor), Brad Pitt (actor), André Oumansky (actor), Harriet Walter (actress), Kôji Yakusho (actor), Adriana Barraza (actress), Clifton Collins Jr. (actor), Michael Peña (actor), Gael García Bernal (actor), Michael Maloney (actor), Shigemitsu Ogi (actor), Jon Kilik (producer), Alejandro González Iñárritu (producer),

Plot: 4 interlocking stories all connected by a single gun all converge at the end and reveal a complex and tragic story of the lives of humanity around the world and how we truly aren't all that different. In Morocco, a troubled married couple are on vacation trying to work out their differences. Meanwhile, a Moroccan herder buys a rifle for his sons so they can keep the jackals away from his herd. A girl in Japan dealing with rejection, the death of her mother, the emotional distance of her father, her own self-consciousness, and a disability among many other issues, deals with modern life in the enormous metropolis of Tokyo, Japan. Then, on the opposite side of the world the married couple's Mexican nanny takes the couple's 2 children with her to her son's wedding in Mexico, only to come into trouble on the return trip. Combined, it provides a powerful story and an equally powerful looking glass into the lives of seemingly random people around the world and it shows just how connected we really are.

Keywords: 4-stories, accident, accidental-shooting, actual-animal-killed, alone, ambulance, american, arrest, aunt-nephew-relationship, balcony
Genres: Drama,
Taglines: If You Want to be Understood...Listen Tragedy is universal A single gunshot heard around the world. A global disaster. Pain is universal... But so is hope. One shot, many kills.

Quotes:

Richard: What about you? How many wives do you have?::Anwar: I can only afford one.

Yussef: I killed the American, I was the only one who shot at you. They did nothing... nothing. Kill me, but save my brother, he did nothing... nothing. Save my brother... he did nothing.

Amelia: Help! Ayudame! HELP!

Richard: [to other tourists] You leave, I'll kill you. I'll kill you!

Richard: This is your fucked-up country, it's your responsibility!

[first lines]::Hassan: It's almost new. Three hundred cartridges. The guy who gave it to me said you can hit as far as three kilometers.

[last lines]::Japanese newscaster: Susan Jones, who was wounded in a terrorist attack in Morocco, was discharged from a Casablanca hospital this morning, local time. The American people finally have a happy ending, after five days of frantic phone calls and hand wringing. In other news...

[last title card]::Title card: To my children, Maria Eladia and Elisio... the brightest lights in the darkest night.

Mike Jones: My mom said Mexico is dangerous.::Santiago: [in Spanish] Yes, it's full of Mexicans.

Chieko: [signing] They look at us like we're monsters.

Atash (2004)

Actors: Avi Kleinberger (producer), Baher Agbariya (producer), Tawfik Abu Wael (director), Ruba Blal (actress), Tawfik Abu Wael (writer), Hussein Yassin Mahajne (actor), Galit Shaked (editor), Wisam M. Gibran (composer), Amal Bweerat (actress), Jamila Abu Hussein (actress), Ahamed Abed Elrani (actor),

Plot: A family of five, their two goats and donkey live in the middle of nowhere far from their village home. They earn meager living by producing & selling charcoal, made from the surrounding trees. The father and son are the only ones who ever return to their native village. The Mother & two daughters have not left this place since the day they abandoned home, 10 years ago. One day the father decides to provide running water for the family by illegally diverting water onto their land. The three women recoil from the idea but the teenage son obeys submissively anything to be allowed to continue attending school. The water surging through the pipe parallels the surging resentment the family feels towards the father. He brought them to this place against their will and they know the reason they left their home is also the reason they can never return, but the newly free-flowing water on their land re-awakens the instinctive desire for freedom they have been repressing all these years.

Keywords: resentment-toward-father
Genres: Drama,

Ali, Rabiaa et les autres (2000)

Actors: Hiam Abbass (actress), Ahmed Boulane (producer), Ahmed Boulane (actor), Ahmed Boulane (director), Ahmed Boulane (writer), Younes Megri (composer), Younes Megri (actor), Omar Chraibi (actor), Rachid Benallal (editor), Abdellah Lamrani (actor), Mohamed Merouazi (actor), Mahjoub Raji (actor), Samia Akarriou (actress), Abdelahk Lazali (actor), Melanie Baxter Jones (actress),

Genres: ,

Ani Ohev Otach Rosa (1972)

Actors: Yoram Globus (producer), Yehuda Efroni (actor), Joseph Shiloach (actor), Menahem Golan (producer), Dov Seltzer (composer), Michal Bat-Adam (actress), Dov Hoenig (editor), Moshé Mizrahi (director), Moshé Mizrahi (writer), Avner Hizkiyahu (actor), Levana Finkelstein (actress), Itzik Kol (producer), Aliza Rosen (actress), Elisheva Michaeli (actress), Moshe Tal (actor),

Plot: This story centers on the Jewish practice that requires an unmarried brother to marry the childless widow of his dead brother. In this story the younger brother is only 12 years old when his brother dies. The requirement is avoided by a legal fiction, but as time passes in the story, the situation changes.

Keywords: levirate
Genres: Drama,
Taglines: The unanimous hit of the 1972 Cannes Film Festival - An Israeli love story you will never forget.