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The documentary is dedicated to Zauberman’s close friend Juliano Mer-Khamis, the Arab-Israeli actor, director, and political activist featured in the film. [3] Mer-Khamis was murdered in front of his “Theater of Freedom” in the Palestinian refugee camp of Jenin in the West Bank on April 4, 2011. He was shot five times by masked militants ...
Lust (Arabic: الشوق, translit. El Shoq) is a 2010 [1] Egyptian drama film directed by Khaled El Hagar. It stars Ruby, Ahmed Azmi and Sawsan Badr. Lust was reviewed at the 34th Cairo International Film Festival. [2] In the Arab world of film production, it is the oldest annual cinema event. [3]
It is an Arab remake of the 2016 Italian film Perfetti sconosciuti, and is the first Arabic-language Netflix original film made purely by Arab production companies. The film was directed and co-written by Wissam Smayra , his debut film in the director's seat, and stars Mona Zaki , Nadine Labaki , Eyad Nassar , Adel Karam , Georges Khabbaz ...
The Egyptian industry developed from silent movies to talkies, with musicals being the bulk of the productions in the 1930s and 1940s. [6] Of the first Arab-produced films was the 1923 Egyptian film Barsoum Looking for a Job, [7] and Laila, released in Egypt in 1927, [8] [9] while the first Arabic speaking film was Awlad El-Zawat, also released ...
678 (released internationally as Cairo 6,7,8) is a 2010 Egyptian political thriller film written and directed by Mohamed Diab. The film focuses on the daily public sexual harassment of three women of different social backgrounds in Egypt.
It was the first film by a female Arabic speaker to confront the taboo of sexual violence against Arab women, who are frequently forced into silence to preserve their family’s honor. [3] The film chronicles the stories of five women who experienced sexual abuse as young girls, some of them being victimized by their own family members.
Some of the Arab countries would attempt to copy the Egyptian melodramatic formulas and would make the film in the Egyptian dialect. [8] With time, there were many changes that led many Egyptian filmmakers to start gradually making their movies in Lebanon instead. First, the Egyptian revolution of 1952 made it less stable politically in Egypt. [9]
The film is an adaptation of the ancient Arabic anthology One Thousand and One Nights, also known as the Arabian Nights. It is the last of Pasolini's "Trilogy of Life", which began with The Decameron and continued with The Canterbury Tales. The lead was played by young Franco Merli who was discovered for this film by Pasolini.