Fighting back with a camera
Marie-Rose Osta’s last project, called “GangBang”, is a short, catchy silent movie that was screened during the last Lebanese Film Festival in Beirut.
Cinema Filistin
German photographer Julius Matuschik documented the last remaining movie theatres in Palestine in his “Cinema Filistin” series.
What if humans could overcome mortality? This question is at the core of Lebanese writer and director Darine Hotait’s the short science fiction movie Orb.
Karachi mobile cinema
Mera Karachi Mobile Cinema is a collaborative initiative between various marginalised and migrant communities to organise free screenings of short films made with cell phones using a rickshaw-powered projector.
Art rising from the streets
Many Egyptian cultural initiatives thrived in the euphoric energy settling in downtown Cairo since the revolution. Art is rising from the streets.
The slap
Sarcastic, irreverent, The Slap, by Iranian director Ehsan Amani, uses codes from silent film to make fun of its characters and our preconceptions.
Khartoum’s old cinema houses live on – and speak about the current and past relationship between the city and those who live in it
A weird passion
In recent years, the strange sci-fi and action film remakes from Turkey in the 70s and 80s have grown their own online international cult following
Charlie Chaplin and social networks
Modern Times is a short film describing the life of an ordinary man in Izmir. We spoke to the director Aykut Alp Ersoy
Faten Hamama
Egypt’s Faten Hamama, one of Arab cinema’s great legends and known the 50s & 60s as ‘The Lady of the Arabic Screen’, is still recording movies.
Stories: Palestine
India sees Palestine through art
To walk Palestine
Life in Gaza
A metro for Gaza
Series
Projects
Beirut re-collected
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Our Mediterranean
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Journalism and Migration Workshop
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