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.

Amos Gitai returns to the occupied territories for the first time since his 1982 documentary FIELD D...

A humor-inflected history of the of the number one, covering military applications in ancient Rome, ...

An Israeli film director interviews fellow veterans of the 1982 invasion of Lebanon to reconstruct h...

In May 1974, the Israeli Air Force carried out an extermination operation against the Palestinian re...

On May 8, 1989, Sports Illustrated ran an article about Ultimate frisbee… about a team with no name ...

Documentary short about the disastrous dangers of aging, ailing dams.

In the Arab world, women are fighting a two-front war against repressive internal constraints and in...

A verité legal drama about Judge Kholoud Al-Faqih, the first woman appointed to a Shari'a court in t...

MANUFACTURED LANDSCAPES is the striking new documentary on the world and work of renowned artist Edw...

In Breaking Bread, exotic cuisine and a side of politics are on the menu. Dr. Nof Atamna-Ismaeel - t...

In a community of a Muslim majority, the first woman pastor in the Middle East leads a parish in one...

The film documents modern slave trade through a number of African countries, under dictatorship rule...

Historian Tom Holland traces the origins of Isis’ barbaric and sadistic violence which it claims is ...

AMIN portrays Qashqai musician Amin Aghaie, a young modern nomad and his family who despite facing s...

Follows the repercussions of the Israeli Security Wall and Settlement expansion in the engulfed/anne...

On the verge of the election, the director Avi Mograbi aims to make a documentary on the most malign...

A few years ago, the al-Mahamids fled Bashar al-Assad and Syria to settle in Montreal. A nuanced por...