Middle East Movies

After the insurrection erupted in Libya in the spring of 2012, more than a million people flocked to neighboring Tunisia in search of a safe haven...

Houda al-Habash, a conservative Muslim preacher, founded a Qur'an school for girls in Damascus, Syria when she was just 17 years old. Every summer,...

Follows the repercussions of the Israeli Security Wall and Settlement expansion in the engulfed/annexed Palestinian farming communities of the West...

When filmmaker Wael Kadlo picks up his mother from the airport in Beirut, it seems like a rather warm family visit. But Kadlo, who was born in...

In the Arab world, women are fighting a two-front war against repressive internal constraints and intrusive Western interference. In this program, a...

Iranian people’s water requirements are mostly depending on groundwater, though these sources are swiftly ending and the farmers are overusing...

Brussels, Béguinage church. Migrants organize a hunger strike to obtain papers. A man dies. Tunisia, Libya. A border camp of Choucha refugees...

The construction of a dam on the Euphrates River is an example of a country’s economic development. Through grandly composed images, rhythmic...

The histories of queer people of color, especially from the SWANA (Southwest Asia/North Africa) region, remains generally unwritten. The lack of this...

On the verge of the election, the director Avi Mograbi aims to make a documentary on the most maligned Israeli politician, Arik Sharon. Against all...

A paranoid criminal and her drug-addicted partner find themselves bound, hand and feet, in the middle of nowhere; she remembers nothing from the day...

Caught in a raging sandstorm on Christmas Eve, Santa must find a way to bring presents to children of the Middle East. With the help of Camels...

In a war-ravaged Syrian neighborhood, a musician struggles to rebuild his piano after it is destroyed by terrorists.