Children of Fire Mai Masri 1990, 50 min., Color, Palestine This film offers a rare view of the Intifada as seen through the eyes of Palestinian children. At age five, Fadi is already throwing stones, while for Hana, 11, the Intifada is a new way of life which...
Cinema Fouad Mohammed Soueid & Tele Liban 1994, 28 min., Color, Lebanon A documentary on the life and ambitions of a young Lebanese trans woman, Khaled El Kurdi. The video follows her journey from soldier to cabaret dancer in an effort to raise funds for her sex change ...
Enemy Alien Konrad Aderer 2011, 82 min., Color, US ENEMY ALIEN is the gripping story of the fight to free Farouk Abdel-Muhti, a Palestinian-born human rights activist detained in a post-9/11 sweep of Muslim immigrants. Told through the eyes of the fil...
Forbidden to Wander Susan Youssef 2003, 35 min., Color FORBIDDEN TO WANDER chronicles the experiences of a young Arab American woman traveling on her own in the occupied territories of the West Bank and Gaza Strip during the summer of 2002. The film is a ...
I Call Myself Persian: Iranians in America Tanaz Eshaghian & Sara Nodojoumi 2002, 27 min., Color, US From the Iran hostage crisis of '79 to the WTC attacks, images of hostile Iranians and Middle Easterners have been well-ingrained in the American psyche, but no informed images come to mind representi...
I Exist: Voices from the Lesbian and Gay Middle Eastern Community in the US Peter Barbosa & Garrett Lenoir Producer: Peter Barbosa 2003, 56 min., Color, US “I Exist” is a documentary exploring individual journeys of Lesbian and Gay people of Middle Eastern cultures living in the United States. The cultural and religious challenges that many Lesbian and ...
Just Ralph Clifton Watson Producer: Third World Newsreel 2005, 11 min., Color, US An alternately serious and humorous "day in the life" of Ralph, a Palestinian-American grocery store owner, whose Brooklyn store is the neighborhood drop in center. As the 2004 election approached, Ra...
Kabul Kabul Sedika Mojadidi 2000, 46 min., Color, US/Afghanistan KABUL KABUL documents the filmmaker's journey back to Afghanistan after a 23 year absence. She recounts her struggle to reconcile the different levels of loss that many like her have experienced fro...
Mouth Harp in Minor Key: Hamid Naficy In/On Exile Maryam Sepehri Producer: Maryam Sepehri 2017, 61 min., Color, US/Iran For Iranian scholar Hamid Naficy, exile is like an elevator that runs between “two cultural poles, two memories, two lives.” Naficy belongs to the Iranian generation that lived through the modernizati...
Najeeb: A Persian Girl in America Tanaz Eshaghian 2000, 26 min., Color, US After the Iranian Revolution took place in 1979, after which 80,000 Persian Jews fled the country. Since then, thousands of young women have grown up in Iranian homes in the United States, where they...
Noble Sacrifice Vatche Boulghourjian Producer: Rebus Film Production 2002, 39 min., Color, Lebanon NOBLE SACRIFICE explores the nexus between mourning and militancy as expressed in the annual Shiite observance of Ashura. Participants in the procession engage in self-flagellation, bloodletting and o...
An Opera of the World Manthia Diawara 2018, 70 min., Color Manthia Diawara’s film is based on the African opera Bintou Were, a Sahel Opera, which recounts an eternal migration drama. The Bintou Were opera, filmed on location in Bamako, in 2007, serves as a mi...
Saj: Muslim in America Sam Pollard Producer: Third World Newsreel 2005, 4 min., Color, US Sajda Abdul-Rahim, a college student living in New York City, talks about her religious upbringing as a Muslim and her quest for a less traditional and more personal spiritual connection with God. Par...
Two Months to Home Janice Ahn 2006, 8 min., Color, US In the months prior to 9-11, an Afghan woman named Samira Rahman narrowly escapes from the Taliban, losing her family. After settling down in Long Island and beginning a new family, Samira is taken aw...
Waiting for Mercy: The Case against Mohammed Hossain and Yassin Aref Ellie Bernstein Producer: Tony Grocki 2009, 68 min., Color, US Were these two Muslim men who had no prior criminal history set-up to appear as criminals or were they possible terrorists?
This documentary tells the story of a fictitious FBI plot in Albany New...
The Way North: Maghrebi Women in Marseille Shara K. Lange 2008, 60 min., Color, France "I thought that in France life would be easier—it’s the land of liberty. But it wasn’t like that at all." --Fatima Rhazi
From Marseille come the stories of North African women making new lives for ...
A Week with Azar Tara Najd Ahmadi Producer: Jurij Meden and Tara Najd Ahmadi 2018, 11 min., Color, US A Week with Azar is a short experimental documentary film, based on a true story of Azar, an Iranian computer engineer living in the United States, who in the winter of 2017 failed to see her ill sist...
Who Gives Kisses Freely From Her Lips Simin Farkhondeh 2009, 41 min., Color, US/Iran Inspired by the work of Sara Gomez and Cuban Imperfect Cinema, Who Gives Kisses Freely From Her Lips, weaves together fiction and documentary to tell the story of a filmmaker determined to make a film...
Zulaikha Sedika Mojadidi Producer: Third World Newsreel 2002, 12 min., Color, US An experimental portrait of an Afghan woman in Los Angeles in the wake of the attack on the World Trade Center and the war in Afghanistan. Exploring the relationships between image and voice, trauma ...
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