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Posts Tagged with ‘Movies:Middle East’

  • Theeb: A Bedouin Boy in the WWI Desert

    19 Jul 2016

    Aimless movie wandering sometimes pays dividends.  We happened into a streaming presentation of Theeb, by British-Jordanian director, Abu Nowar. Recipient of considerable…

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  • The Secrets — Desire and Emergence in Conservative Israel

    10 Feb 2016

    Avi Nesher’s 2007 film, The Secrets, is full of them, though not only the secret forbidden love promised by the posters. Neither…

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  • Khorma – The Foolish Crier, Tunisia

    09 Feb 2016

    Stories of fools are likely as old as the telling of stories themselves, second only to those of powerful heroes…

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  • The Toll Booth — Unsettled Desperation in Turkey

    05 Feb 2016

    The Toll Booth (2014), more accurately, the” toll taker,” has a nice play on words in it, at least in…

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  • Women say: Hands Off! — Three Films of the Changing Conversation in Islam

    26 Jan 2016

    The long fight for autonomy, independence and freedom against enemies canny and brutal, is one of the most popular subjects…

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  • Enough! — Algerian Film Maker looks at War

    13 Jan 2016

    Djamila Sahraoui (b 1950) Algerian born director, now living in France was 41 when the thirteen year civil war erupted in…

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  • Halfaouine: Boy of The Terraces –Coming of Age in Tunis, 1990

    12 Jan 2016

    Every once in a while the unexpected out does itself. In Halfouine, Ferid Boughedir’s small 1990 movie from Tunis not…

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  • Taxi — A Forbidden Film from Iran

    10 Nov 2015

    Jaffar Panahi’s Taxi, an entry at the recent Mill Valley Film Festival has made it into at least limited distribution in…

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  • 1913: Seeds of Conflict in Palestine

    10 Aug 2015

    1913: Seeds of Conflict, a 2014 PBS distributed documentary by Ben Loeterman, is a fine, short introduction to the little…

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  • Arabs in WW I

    19 Nov 2014

    This looks like this will be very interesting, from Al Jazeera: World War One was four years of bitter conflict from…

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  • Omar – Love and Betrayal in an Occupied Land

    17 Mar 2014

    Let’s do a thought experiment about a movie.  In it, an occupying army has a stranglehold on the local populace. …

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  • The Secret of the Grain — the Couscous of Love

    01 Nov 2013

    Abdel Kechiche is getting a lot of press these weeks for his daring love story of two woman, daringly shown,…

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