An examination of the creation of the state of Israel in 1948 through to the present day. A semi-biographic film, in four chapters, about a family spanning from 1948 until recent times. Combined with intimate memories of each member, the film attempts to portray the daily life of those Palestinians who remained in their land and were labelled "Israeli-Arabs," living as a minority in their own homeland.
Two newlyweds on their honeymoon discover that they are different in almost every way — but can these opposites attract?
The Cuckold is a controversial dramatic feature that pushes a camera lens through the peephole of American taboo, focusing on the flashpoint where racial and sexual tensions collide. While set against the backdrop of a little-known fetish in the swinging lifestyle called 'cuckolding', The Cuckold tells the broader story of two suburban couples and two urban men whose lives collide in a tale woven together by the threads of deceit, lust, and primal vengeance. It also explores the consequences and risks in looking beyond the skin in search of love.
An engineering college student invents the first of its kind robot in the Middle East, in an attempt to avenge his father's death and achieve justice, which gets him pursued by the authorities.
While living abroad, a queer filmmaker occasionaly returns to his hometown of Tripoli, Lebanon. His quest to confront the city that once rejected him inspires reflections that give the film the character of an urban symphony.
Overlooking the sea, two young men contemplate what is beyond the horizon as their friends and family leave for the allure of a new life.
An uninterrupted parade of beheadings, disembowelments, assassinations by firearms and other monstrosities carried out by the "soldiers of Allah".
More journalists have been killed over the course of a year in the Israel-Gaza war than in any other conflict since the Committee to Protect Journalists started collecting data in 1992. This hellish portrait follows three Palestinian journalists in northern Gaza as they are forced put their lives at risk while trying to do their work.
The work revolves around a comedic framework about (Hassan) and (Ismail), two cousins, where an old traditional struggle takes place between them to prove the superiority of one over the other through several comedic situations until they discover in the end that the real gain is family and mutual love.
After a tempest, fishermen do not find only fish in their nets. That is what happens to Jafaar, a poor fisherman who lives poorly in Gaza. And what he hauls in is really upsetting: imagine that, a pig! An unclean animal judged impure not only by the Faith of Islam but also by the Jewish religion. Determined to get rid of the animal, Jafaar tries desperately to sell it, first to a United Nations official, then to a Jewish colony where Yelena raises pigs not for their meat but for security reasons. Of course, going unnoticed in the company of a "forbidden" animal, among his Palestinian brothers, past Israeli soldiers and under the scrutiny of Islamic fundamentalists is no bed of roses and a series of misadventures await Jafaar.
After running away from his negligent parents, committing a violent crime and being sentenced to five years in jail, a hardened, streetwise 12-year-old Lebanese boy sues his parents in protest of the life they have given him.
At a strict girls’ school, a mysterious fire blazes out of control. Now everyone's questioning whether it was an accident — or arson.
Years have passed since the brothers have separated in their different ways of life. But one day, a ghost from the past returns to cast a shadow over the sons of Rizk, forcing them to return to a life of crime and theft once again in order to save themselves, in a fateful operation that is the largest, most dangerous, and most important in the history of the sons of Rizk.
The first Sultan of Egypt and Syria leads the Muslim military campaign against the invading Christians from Europe during the Third Crusade.
It’s 2013, two years after the initially peaceful uprising that led to the Syrian civil war, and a group of citizen soldiers are advancing from their hometown of Saraqeb to Al-Tabqa Military Airport, Raqqa to fight Bashar al-Assad’s army.
Since the withdrawal of US troops from Afghanistan in 2021, the Taliban have imposed a reign of terror that is particularly brutal towards women. Risking their own lives and those of their loved ones, groups of women are protesting against the regime, and standing up for the right to freedom, education and security. The filmmaker follows and interviews two of these women, Reshmin and her sister.
Botox, Revolax, Sculptra, Hyaron, Juvederm: all sorts of products—perhaps not all entirely legal—sell like hot cakes in Bouba’s Lebanese beauty salon. Skillfully, though not always gently, she jabs a constant stream of clients with all kinds of injectables to temporarily reduce their facial wrinkles and frown lines.
A police captain infiltrates a notorious gang, only to find himself going deeper down the rabbit hole.
A social drama set in the 1920s in Damascus. It highlights Damascene life, noble values, and ancient customs and traditions represented by the people of Harat al-Dabeh who fled to Harat al-Salihiyah after the French bombed Harat al-Dabeh. The events take place after the gold is stolen from the house of the cloth merchant Abu Ibrahim, and the guard Abu al-Samu is killed. The men of the neighborhood try to find the thief.
Fed up with his wife’s distancing from him, Hadi goes on a business trip to Turkey where he meets a special woman, an encounter that changes his life forever.
When a corpse drops from the top floor during a grand party, officer Rami questions all witnesses to find the murderer but uncovers a past filled with betrayal.
The series goes into details of the events that Syria went through between the years 1955-1959, including the tripartite aggression against Egypt in 1956, the establishment of unity between Syria and Egypt, and the revolution against the monarchy in Iraq, through the Qishani neighborhood, where its people work as merchants, lawyers, doctors, intellectuals and other works.
When a famous fashion designer and her gardener’s daughter fall for the same man, the struggle between them soon turns into an all-out war where only one can prevail.
A group of young men and women of different Arab nationalities live side by side in a residential building in Abu Dhabi. The work narrates the daily relationships between them, as well as the differences that may occur between individuals who live under one roof.
The story of a Syrian family and their daily interactions including the father (Kareem), the mother (Nabila) and the aunt (Jamila). Kareem and Nabila have 5 daughters (Faten, Laila, Majeda, Shadia and Nadia), each of them with different aspirations and lifestyles.
During the period of the French occupation of Syria, the events of the series revolve around As'ad AlWarraq, an orphan, illiterate, poor young man who is pushed by circumstances between various paradoxes, between false accusations and the injustice of his neighborhood people towards him.
Nader is lost between his parents, who are experiencing a struggle between love and hate, Lulia, who is persecuted by her stepmother, Dalal, whose hatred for her stepdaughter reaches the point of attempting murder. Dalal considers Lulia the reason for her unhappiness, but when Lulia leaves her life, she discovers her mistake. Tahseen her husband can only run away from problems and cannot solve any of them.
Having spent most of her 20s taking care of her sick mother and her family's household, a sexually repressed woman elopes and has to face the hypocrisies of middle eastern society.
Essam and Ragaa experience unsolvable problems and disputes over one of Essam's colleagues. These disputes increase to affect their children negatively over time.
Abdo the charioteer's life becomes beset by a series of hurdles as he grapples with oppression and a fierce quest for love in old Damascus.
Al Ghadr "The Treachery" is a Syrian TV series with a detective theme, consisting of 31 episodes, based on the novel “The Bread Peddler” by Xavier de Montépin.
The series discusses the stories of young university students, their reality during their studies, and the hardships and unknown fate they endure after graduation.
Drama. Miramar runs away from her family to follow her dreams, she meets Murad with whom a new love story filled with hope and risks.
It presents the details of the lives of its simple heroes who live in a small forgotten village in the beautiful Syrian mountains, called “Um al-Tafnaz al-Fawqa”.
Dr. Aseel's perfect life is shattered when she discovers her husband Saif's two-year-long affair with a woman 15 years younger than him, sending her down a vengeful path.
