Middle East Movies

Forbidden to Wander chronicles the experiences of a 25-year-old Arab American woman traveling on her own in the occupied territories of the West Bank...

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,...

A group of young UN soldiers in Lebanon enters service with pro-Israeli views and a naive outlook on war. They go through a radical change of heart...

To avenge the murder of her husband, Mirna dedicates herself to the destruction of the beautiful but villainous Sura who ships arms to the Middle...

In her award-winning stand-up show, Esther Manito (Live At The Apollo, The Stand Up Sketch Show) looks back at the era of lad mags, landlines and...

A young man struggles with his overbearing mother while looking for romance and a way to kick-start his show business career

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

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...

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...

After the battle of Kfar Chouba in Lebanon in January 1975, Larbi Nasri, a young Algerian journalist, was caught in the whirlwind of events preceding...

The film consists of three novels: the first novel about Gobustan, an ancient human settlement. The second novel deals with the theme of the East and...

As the United States and Iran are locked in a battle for power and influence across the Middle East—with the fear of an Iranian nuclear weapon...

Crossover! All the stars of the 80s Israelian Mizrahi Music were brought. He is a rising star at the underground Mizrahi scene, She is an...

In a time where the Saudi society is undergoing drastic changes, Ahmad, early 30s, sees the reflection of these in the company he works at.

Everything you've ever wanted to know about Saddam Hussein (but were afraid to ask).

Ahmed drives through the derelict nightscape of Cairo, anxious to secure money to pay for an abortion for a young woman - a procedure that must take...

When Tehran hosts visiting foreign dignitaries, the local authorities clean up the city’s urban image through the controversial process of...

An early hand-tinted adaptation of Ali Baba.