The construction of a dam on the Euphrates River is an example of a country’s economic development. Through grandly composed images, rhythmic editing, and aestheticized details, the director demonstrates his admiration for the interwar avant-garde. The film is a celebration of the new, while at the same time showing a traditional way of life and calling attention to working conditions; it is a refrain-like evocation of an arid country that explores the difficult lot of Syria’s rural inhabitants.
A parallel montage of the construction of a dam in Galicia and the architecture of a small Roman-sty...
An Israeli film director interviews fellow veterans of the 1982 invasion of Lebanon to reconstruct h...
Houda al-Habash, a conservative Muslim preacher, founded a Qur'an school for girls in Damascus, Syri...
The Israeli filmmaker Shai Corneli Polak records the building of the 'security wall' through Palesti...
During the darkest days of the Depression when construction was started on Grand Coulee Dam, everyth...
MANUFACTURED LANDSCAPES is the striking new documentary on the world and work of renowned artist Edw...
The apocalyptic blast in the Port of Beirut, Lebanon, on August 4, 2020, exacerbates anger at those ...
As the United States and Iran are locked in a battle for power and influence across the Middle East—...
The inside story of Mohammed Emwazi's journey from being an ordinary London boy to becoming terroris...
This highly kinetic tableaux of uprooted sights and sounds works most earnestly to expose the racial...
The inside story of the bitter clash between President Obama and Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu. A...
When filmmaker Wael Kadlo picks up his mother from the airport in Beirut, it seems like a rather war...
We Are Not Princesses is a documentary film about the incredible strength and spirit of four Syrian ...
Explore the 1928 collapse of the St. Francis Dam, the second deadliest disaster in California histor...
The film documents modern slave trade through a number of African countries, under dictatorship rule...
On May 8, 1989, Sports Illustrated ran an article about Ultimate frisbee… about a team with no name ...
Follows the repercussions of the Israeli Security Wall and Settlement expansion in the engulfed/anne...
Amos Gitai returns to the occupied territories for the first time since his 1982 documentary FIELD D...
Discusses the history of the Middle East. Contrasts old ways with the new in agriculture, industry, ...