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1) Dachra
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Arabic
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Ever since she was discovered naked and near-dead decades ago, Mongia has been institutionalized, with a tendency to bite her nurses. Grisly, frightening, and stuffed with howling thrills, the new Tunisian horror film DACHRA won over both Frightfest and the Venice Film Festival and is finally making its stateside debut. Equal parts Midsommar and The Blair Witch Project, DACHRA begins with a simple classroom assignment and spins through double plot...
2) Huda's salon
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Arabic
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Reem, a young mother married to a jealous man, goes to Huda's salon in Bethlehem. But this ordinary visit turns sour when Huda, after having put Reem in a shameful situation, blackmails her to have her work for the secret service of the occupiers, and thus betray her people.
3) Paradise Now
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Arabic
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Filmed entirely on location in the West Bank during the current Intifada, PARADISE NOW chronicles the last 28 hours in the lives of two Palestinian suicide bombers as they prepare for and embark on a deadly operation against Israel, revealing once again just how tragic and perplexing the consequences of the ongoing conflict in the Middle East are.
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Arabic
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Based on a thrilling true story, **Sundance** Award-winner THE NILE HILTON INCIDENT is a crime noir that plays “*like an Arabic riff on Chinatown*” (***Entertainment Weekly***). Weeks before the 2011 Egyptian Revolution, Noredin, a police officer in Cairo, investigates a pop singer’s murder at the Nile Hilton Hotel. What initially appears to be a crime of passion turns into a complicated case involving the power elite of Egypt. When Noredin...
5) al-Hārib
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Arabic
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In a dystopia where market capitalism and television game shows have spiraled out of control, Ben Richards enters himself in the last-chance money-making scheme of the Free-Vee games. Success means a life of luxury, and failure means death. Unfortunately, in the last six years no one has survived the game.
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She was violently twitching, staring at something behind me, screaming violently. The situation became much more difficult. In a few moments, the lady was lying on the ground with her body. . . Completely convulsed, and yelling violently, she was constantly saying: They took her out, I did not want her in front of me, they took her out. . . As for Hajj Muhammad, he sat next to her, while he was reading and trying to calm the woman's horror who was...
10) Dachra
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Arabic
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A young journalism student and her friends become trapped in an isolated village while trying to solve a gruesome criminal case that is over 25 years old.
11) Frankshtain
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Arabic
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From Amazon: Mary Shelley's Frankenstein is one of the masterpieces of nineteenth-century Gothicism. While stay-ing in the Swiss Alps in 1816 with her lover Percy Shelley, Lord Byron, and others, Mary, then eighteen, began to concoct the story of Dr. Victor Frankenstein and the monster he brings to life by electricity. Written in a time of great personal tragedy, it is a subversive and morbid story warning against the dehumanization of art and the...
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Since his wife, Michelle, left seven years ago, Jeffy Coltrane has worked to maintain a normal life for himself and his eleven-year-old daughter, Amity, in Suavidad Beach. It's a quiet life, until a local eccentric known as Spooky Ed shows up on their doorstep. Ed entrusts Jeffy with hiding a strange and dangerous object-something he calls "the key to everything"--and tells Jeffy that he must never use the device. But after a visit from a group of...
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