The story takes place during the second half of the Umayyad Period and at the outset of the Abbasid Caliphate up to the time of its actual founder, Abu Jaafar Al Mansur. It recounts the progression of events inside the Umayyads' house, starting from the time of Omar bin Abdul Aziz until the time of their last Caliph, Marwan bin Muhammad bin Marwan. It also traces the life of th...
A struggling American writer moves to Amman, Jordan to chronicle his life there and publish a book. His Jordanian upstairs neighbors take him in as their own and they turn out to be more than he can handle. For four seasons, their ongoing misunderstandings, blunders and pettiness lead to a million laughs and a few steps toward peace in the Middle East.
Four years in the life of a Syrian girl in a refugee camp, in a unique film that is just as lively and curious as its protagonist.
When Marwa was 9 years old, she fled with her family from Syria and got stranded in Jordan. They thought they would be in a refugee camp for a few months, but that quickly turned into years. The open-minded and lively Marwa, who describes herself as...
Off Frame AKA Revolution Until Victory offers a panoramic view of the modern history of Palestine through the unseen lenses of unsung protagonists. Mohanad Yaqubi's long-awaited feature debut presents a rapid, non-didactic visual history carefully assembled over seven years of research in archives Paris, Rome, London, Amman and Beirut. Off Frame AKA Revolution Until Victory is ...
The Time That Separates Us circles the story of Lot’s wife and its related sites of mythology, ancient salt-rock formations found doubled across a contested border, overlooking the Dead Sea. Geologists speculate that they were created by an underwater volcanic eruption, the same phenomenon that destroyed the historical cities of Sodom and Gomorrah. Concurrently, the biblical na...
It is a story that could happen anywhere . Anywhere there is, ever has been, or ever will be war; anywhere there is a man and a woman and a room. An intense, darkly comic study of what becomes of ordinary passions between a man and his wife in the long interstices of war's heightened reality, Condom Lead is a story about sexual frustration on the edge of time's knife and in the...