In the dead of night, vision is warped by insomnia – Adam hears a woman call out, but there is no-one there. Dreamlike and eerie, as if being plunged into a twisted dream.
Tender but not nostalgic, intimate but not naïve, Oualid Mouaness first feature film entwines collective and individual histories. A compelling chronicle of a tense afternoon at the end of June 1982, when Lebanese history was forever changed, told through the life-defining experience of first love.
Amid the ease of an Eid al-Fitr family gathering, five adult siblings learn that their father has been in an accident and rush to hospital. They find him in good shape, but he’s unable to prevent long-held secrets from emerging and their relationships will be reconfigured by the morning.
Amid an environmental disaster, a couple tries to protect the harmony of their relationship and their world. Can they create space in which to take a deep breath, to return to their former life?
A journey into a strange new world. Director Qamar Abdulmalik relies on collective memories of advertisements, familiar yet artificial, to create the atmosphere of a “dream”. In that space, he renders the complex realities of nationality, country, and home.
Following the deadly events at home, the Abbott family (Emily Blunt, Millicent Simmonds, Noah Jupe) must now face the terrors of the outside world as they continue their fight for survival in silence. Forced to venture into the unknown, they quickly realize that the creatures that hunt by sound are not the only threats that lurk beyond the sand path.
Married life for Fares and Meriem is bliss., They are happy at work, home and enjoy a close-knit relationship with their eleven-year-old son, Aziz. All that changes in an instant when a car journey turns into a nightmare. Randomly caught in an ambush, a stray bullet hits Aziz. As secrets are exposed their lives begin to unravel.
On the hazy, humid streets of Luanda, Angola, air conditioning units are falling from the sky. Director Fradique details the lives of characters wandering amid vibrant ruins, their memories and cityscape marked by the wounds of civil war. Saturated, evocative and guided by sound, this is a dream-like encounter with place and memory.
A masterpiece revered for its profound ability to distill the political through the personal. This murder mystery is a deep dive into the human psyche. A body turns up with a photograph in its pocket; the corpse is the twin brother of the famous author and social climber Sayed. From that moment on, the writer’s life takes a drastically different course.