Documentary
About Baghdad
In July of 2003, exiled writer and poet Sinan Antoon returned to his native Baghdad with a team of independent filmmakers, artists and poets to document the effects that decades of oppression, war, sanctions and occupation have had on his city.
Being Osama
BEING OSAMA provides an intimate look at six men with highly diverse backgrounds, interests and personalities, united by their first names and the experience of living as an Arab in the post 9/11 world.
Elie Fayrouz
Elie Darwish has a voice similar to that of famous Lebanese singer Fairuz. It was his mother who heard him singing for the first time and gave him his nickname: Fairuz. Despite the years, Elie hasn’t changed. The film traces the sotry of this man with a woman’s voice and his life, which is full of love, music, pain, solitude and waiting.
Embrace
A young Lebansese man explores what growing up is like in contemporary Sydney.
I Remember 1948
Personal memories of the tumultuous days of Al Nakba, ‘the catastrophe’,
May 15th 1948, when 750,000 Palestinians were expelled freom their homes.
‘If I live one thousand years, you think I will forget that?’
Improvisation
Raed Andoni’s Improvisation explores the conflict of identity faced by different generations of Palestinians, as told through the story of a family of musicians who are divided in their political views, but united by their passion for Oud and Arab classical music…
Like Twenty Impossibles
In occupied Palestine, a landscape marked by military checkpints, a Palestinian film crew decides to avert a closed checkpoint by taking a remote side road. From here onward the political landscape slowly unravels and the crew is taken apart by the mundane brutality of military occupation.