Movies

In July 1982, the Israeli army besieged Beirut. Four days earlier, Jocelyne Saab sees her house burn and 150 years of family existence go up in...

A few days after a massacre in a shantytown near Beirut, the director finds the children who survived. She approaches them by offering them crayons...

Poetry is everywhere, even in the refugee camps where absolute misery reigns. In front of old plastic advertising posters on which are drawn in giant...

Two young girls of the war generation, Yasmin and Leila, are in search of Beirut. When they meet an elderly film enthusiast with a secret store of...

Portrait of Dr Hoa, an extraordinary woman who was a minister in the South Vietnamese revolutionary government. Her life is a battle, and that battle...

When peace seems impossible, any means are justified to defend a political cause. Hence, on the border separating the Palestinian territories that...

Portrait of Raymond Eddé, candidate for the Presidential elections and fervent opponent of the religious war. During the 1975-1976 conflicts...

Portrait of a French mercenary working in Libya, hired by the Phalange to train the militias. War leaves its traces; and for some, who see death as...

Short film about oriental dancers.

Although peace has been declared, the Palestinians continue to fight Israel for the liberation of their territories.

A portrait of the City of the Dead, an inhabited cemetery just outside of Cairo and on the fringes of the city’s public dumping ground, like a...

Six 4-minute short films each filmed in the countries of the Mediterranean, and dealing with expressions of gender, the body, sexuality and identity....

The cease-fire declared on October 21, 1976, gave the Fedayeen the opportunity to reclaim this area—Fatah territory until it was abandoned in...

A portrait of the Copts, the oldest Christian community in Egypt, of its links to ancient Egypt and, in the face of rising Islamic fundamentalism,...

Humiliated by the 1967 defeat, the Egyptian people look for ways to rebuild their sense of identity. Religion seems to point the way for them:...

Using laparoscopic instruments equipped with a camera Jocelyne Saab films the in vitro fertilization process as it takes place. Report on implant...

The Architect of Louxor is an intimate portrait of Olivier Sednaoui, a disciple of the Egyptian architect Hassan Fathi, as he explains the philosophy...