Die Welt (2013)

Actors: Thijs Gloger (writer), Thijs Gloger (editor), Rene Houwen (producer), Roeland Dijksterhuis (producer), Moez Kamoun (producer), Philippa Day (miscellaneous crew), Ilse Heus (actress), Alex Pitstra (editor), Alex Pitstra (producer), Absi Anis (producer), Alex Pitstra (director), Alex Pitstra (writer), Renger Koning (composer), Rene Duursma (editor), Fakhreddine Essraoulia (actor),

Plot: Die Welt is an audacious hybrid between fiction and documentary, showing contemporary Tunisia shortly after the Jasmine Revolution in 2011. In this insightful moral drama about a society in the vacuum between dictatorship and democracy, we follow the young DVD salesman Abdallah, who becomes increasingly frustrated by his inability to realize a fulfilling existence for himself. After meeting the Dutch tourist Anna, he starts dreaming of a better life in Europe, or Die Welt, as his father calls the promised land on the other side of the Mediterranean. Will Abdallah succeed-like his father did in the past-in getting to Europe with the help of a Dutch woman? Or will he have to find another way to escape his native country? And does he want to leave at all? In his debut, Dutch film director Alex Pitstra investigates his Tunisian roots, which he was unfamiliar with most of his life. He paints a mesmerizing picture of the current state of affairs in his father's country, seen through Western eyes. Pitstra worked with both professional actors as well as family members in supporting roles, including his father, his half-sister and his cousins from France. Together with filmmaker and friend Thijs Gloger, who operated the camera and assisted in writing and editing, and with the help of the young Tunesian screenwriter Abdallah Rezgui, Pitstra has given the film a fresh cinematic edge that draws the viewer right into the immediacy of everyday life in Tunisia.

Je ne suis pas mort (2012)

Actors: Albert Delpy (actor), Laurent Bateau (actor), Emmanuel Salinger (actor), Maria de Medeiros (actress), Emmanuelle Castro (editor), Salim Kechiouche (actor), Dimitri Storoge (actor), Alain Azerot (actor), Judith Davis (actress), Nicolas Maury (actor), Aleksandra Yermak (actress), Slimane Dazi (actor), Martin Pautard (actor), Mehdi Ben Attia (director), Mehdi Ben Attia (writer),

Plot: Yacine lives with his brother Jamel in a cramped Parisian apartment. He works as a motorcycle courier, although he is also a brilliant political science student. When a delivery job takes him to the home of his professor Richard Artaud, his life is thrown off course. Both the professor and his wife, an actress, show an extraordinary, if disturbingly paternalistic interest in him. Shortly thereafter, the professor suddenly dies and Yacine makes a strange confession to Eléonore: "I am not dead".

Baad el Mawkeaa (2012)

Actors: Menna Shalabi (actress), Salah Abdallah (actor), Yousry Nasrallah (writer), Tamer Karawan (composer), Yousry Nasrallah (director), Bassem Samra (actor), Nahed Nasrallah (costume designer), Phaedra (actress), Mona Rabei (editor), Mahmoud Moselhy (miscellaneous crew), Nahed El Sebaï (actress), Rasha Gawdat (miscellaneous crew), Omar Shama (writer), Abdallah Medhat (actor), Momen Medhat (actor),

Plot: Mahmoud was part of the armed groups coerced by the Egyptian Government which carried out attacks on protestors in Tahir Square the 2nd of February 2011. Since then, Mahmoud has lost his job, been subjected to humiliating treatment, and been ostracized by his own community that live close to the Pyramids. He and his family are close to despair when he meets Reem, a secular young Egyptian divorcee and modern-thinker who works in advertising. Reem is a fervent ecologist who lives in a wealthy neighbourhood of Cairo. This will be the encounter of two people but also of two different worlds.

Silenced Voice (2011)

Actors: Abdulmajeed Mamudu (producer), Abdulmajeed Mamudu (director), Abdulmajeed Mamudu (editor), Abdulmajeed Mamudu (writer), Abdulmajeed Mamudu (actor), Talal Said (actor), Hani Salama II (actor), Muhammad Ahsan Khan (miscellaneous crew), Rasha Matar (actress), Rawda Matar (actress), Saqr Ali (actor),

El Farah (2009)

Actors: Hassan Hosny (actor), Salah Abdallah (actor), Mahmoud El Guindi (actor), Sawsan Badr (actress), Bassem Samra (actor), Maged El Kedwany (actor), Donia Samir Ghanem (actress), Mai Kassab (actress), Sameh Abdelaziz (director), Rogena (actress), Khaled Elsawy (actor), Amr Assem (editor), Joumana Mourad (actress), Ahmed Elsobky (producer), Ahmed Abdallah (writer),

Avant l'oubli (2005)

Actors: Catherine Salviat (actress), Elías Querejeta (producer), Thierry Hancisse (actor), Frédéric Pierrot (actor), Sami Bouajila (actor), Pascaline Chavanne (costume designer), Abel Jafri (actor), Mostéfa Stiti (actor), Sylvia Parker (miscellaneous crew), Chris Curling (producer), Karim Belkhadra (actor), Hammou Graïa (actor), Jérôme Vidal (producer), Olivier Bronckart (producer), Zakariya Gouram (actor),

The Making of (2003)

Actors: Stefan Lampadius (actor), Stefan Lampadius (miscellaneous crew), Stephan Benson (actor), Alex Trejo (writer), Alex Trejo (director), Marco Jovic (composer), Thomas B. Hoffmann (actor), Katharina Stuber (producer), Marc Lutz (editor), Jimmy Surles (actor), Temo Margalitashvili (actor),

Heremakono (2002)

Actors: Nadia Ben Rachid (editor), Abderrahmane Sissako (writer), Abderrahmane Sissako (director), Guillaume de Seille (producer), Santha Leng (actor), Oumou Sangare (composer), Maji-da Abdi (costume designer), Maji-da Abdi (producer), Nicolas Royer (producer), Mohamed Mahmoud Ould Mohamed (actor), Mohamed Salem Ould Dendou (actor), Mouctar Ould Boukhary (actor), Aderrahmane Ould Ahmed Salem (actor), Jaguelmar Fall (actor), Nah Ould Abdou (actor),

Plot: On the seacoast of Mauritania, some wait to go to Europe. Khatra, a spirited boy, wants an electric light so he can read at night. A stoic older man, Maata, tries to wire the room. Abdallah, a youth on his way to Europe, says good-bye to his mother. Nana looks back on the death of her daughter and her trip to Europe to inform the father. A girl takes singing lessons. Rooms have small windows, looking out onto foot traffic; transistor radios provide some link beyond. Huge ships anchor in the distance. The train comes through, stopping briefly. Offering a cigarette is a gesture of hospitality. Sand dunes and the ocean dominate the landscape. Hope springs amidst small expectations.

Café de la plage (2001)

Actors: André Téchiné (writer), Jacques Nolot (actor), Isabelle Le Grix (miscellaneous crew), Ouassini Embarek (actor), Eric Zaouali (producer), Paul Bowles (writer), Philippe Miller (composer), Cyriac Auriol (producer), Camille Cotte (editor), Benoît Graffin (director), Benoît Graffin (writer), Naima Lamcharki (actress), Pauline Duhault (producer), Meryem Serbah (actress), Mohammed Mrabet (writer),

The Road to Love (1916)

Actors: Lucille Ward (actress), Alfred Hollingsworth (actor), Scott Sidney (director), Herschel Mayall (actor), Gayne Whitman (actor), Colin Chase (actor), Gardner Hunting (writer), Estelle Allen (actress), Joe Massey (actor), Lenore Ulric (actress), Blanche Dougan Cole (writer),