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Reel Bad Arabs: How Hollywood Vilifies a People is a documentary film directed by Sut Jhally and produced by Media Education Foundation in 2006. This film is an extension of the book of the same name by Jack Shaheen , which also analyzes how Hollywood corrupts or manipulates the image of Arabs.
The Doha Tribeca Film Festival (DTFF) was an annual five-day film festival founded in 2009 to promote Arab and international film, and to develop a sustainable film industry in Qatar. [68] The Festival was one of Qatar's largest entertainment events attracting over 50,000 guests in 2010.
Les griffes du passé is a 2014 film directed by Abdelkrim Derkaoui. [1] [2] The film is inspired by two real events. The first is that of Amina Filali who committed suicide after being forced to marry her rapist. The second is that of a woman who was raped and then sentenced to seven years in prison after mutilating her rapist's genitals.
Djinn is a 2013 Emirati supernatural horror film directed by Tobe Hooper and written by David Tully. It is set in the United Arab Emirates and features the djinn. [1] The film, produced by Image Nation, is in both Arabic and English languages. The film's theatrical release has been delayed since 2011.
Capernaum (Arabic: كفرناحوم, romanized: Cafarnaüm) is a 2018 Lebanese drama film directed by Nadine Labaki and produced by Khaled Mouzanar.The screenplay was written by Labaki, Jihad Hojaily and Michelle Keserwany from a story by Labaki, Hojaily, Keserwany, Georges Khabbaz and Khaled Mouzanar.
Arab Blues (French: Un divan à Tunis, lit. 'A couch in Tunis') is a 2019 French-Tunisian comedy film directed by Manele Labidi Labbé in her feature debut. [3] [4] It was screened in the Venice Days section at the 2019 Venice Film Festival [5] and then in the Contemporary World Cinema section at the 2019 Toronto International Film Festival.
The first were by the French film pioneer Louis Lumière Le chevrier Marocain. Orson Welles filmed his Othello there, which won the Palme d'Or prize at the Cannes Film Festival . In 1955, Alfred Hitchcock directed The Man Who Knew Too Much , set in Marrakech and Casablanca , while in 1962 David Lean shot the desert scenes of Lawrence of Arabia ...
Much Loved (also known as Zin Li Fik) is a 2015 French-Moroccan drama film directed by Nabil Ayouch about the prostitution scene in Marrakesh. [2] It was screened in the Directors' Fortnight section at the 2015 Cannes Film Festival. [3] The film has been banned in Morocco for alleged "contempt for moral values and the Moroccan woman". [4]