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Dirty Difficult Dangerous
Wissam Charaf - Lebanon, France - 83 mins
Winner of the Venice Film Festival's Europa Cinemas Label Award, Dirty Difficult Dangerous portrays a forbidden love in present-day Beirut. Ethiopian migrant house maid Mehdia is in love with handsome Syrian scrap metal collector Ahmed. The two make an unlikely pair. Ahmed escaped from Syria after having been hit by shrapnel from a bomb, and Mehdia tries to ... more
The (In)famous Youssef Salem
Baya Kasmi - France - 97 mins
In this entertaining comedy, Youssef Salem is a previously unsuccessful Maghrebi novelist whose new book, Toxic Shock, becomes an unexpected hit and is shortlisted for the Goncourt, France's most coveted literary honor. Overnight, Youssef transforms from eternal loser to the most talked-about best-selling author in Paris. Distraught by the surprising success ... more
The Island of Forgiveness
Ridha Behi - Tunisia - 90 mins
Helmed by one of the leading Tunisian directors, The Island of Forgiveness transports viewers to the 1950s on the island of Djerba before Tunisia's independence, when Djerba was home to a multitude of ethnic backgrounds and diverse religions and everyone lived harmoniously side by side. Accomplished author and professor Andrea Licari, a Tunisian of Italian ... more
Mediterranean Fever
Maha Haj - Palestine - 108 mins
When Waleed knocks on his new neighbor Jalal's door to complain about the noise distracting him from his writer's block, the men discover they are in the same line of work: making excuses for a living while their wives go off to jobs. Waleed (Amer Hlehel) is a failed novelist and Jalal (Ashraf Farah) is a small-time crook; perhaps Waleed can gain some character ... more
Our Brothers
Rachid Bouchareb - France - 92 mins
On a Saturday night in December 1986, Paris's Latin Quarter teems with protesting students and baton-happy cops following the passage of an infamous education reform bill. Meanwhile, the bodies of two young men lie unclaimed in the morgue. For now, only a kindly morgue attendant will "say their names." Within days, both names—Malik Oussekine and Abdel Benyahia—resonate ... more
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