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- Captain Abu Raed. This is a touching film about an airport janitor named Abu Raed who is mistaken for a pilot by the neighbourhood children after being spotted wearing a Captain’s hat that he found in the trash.
- Cherkess. This film is recommended for those interested in exploring a lesser known side of Jordan. Set in the year 1900, the film begins with the arrival of Circassians into Ottoman Transjordan.
- When Monaliza Smiled. This film is a romantic comedy set in Amman that revolves around the life of a Jordanian woman named Monaliza. Although Monaliza rarely smiles for she hardly sees any reason to, she slowly finds herself drawn towards Hamdi, a cheerful and animated Egyptian immigrant who works in the same office as her.
- The Taste of Lemon. This film revolves around the lives of Palestinians and Iraqi refugees living in a dilapidated house in a Damascene neighbourhood.
Here are the 10 best Levantine Arabic films that you need to know. From Jordan to Syria and back, you'll love every minute of them.
- Wedding in Galilee (1987) عرس الجليل ١٩٨٧ from A.M. Qattan Foundation on Vimeo. A landmark for Palestinian film, Wedding in Galilee came at a time when Palestinian films were virtually unheard of, and helped reignite interest for Arab cinema across the world.
- Jenin, Jenin (2002) Jenin, Jenin is a painful and vital look at the tragic and devastating ‘battle of Jenin’, told entirely through interviews with the people of Jenin in Palestine, without a narrator.
- Chronicle of a Disappearance (1996) The acclaimed idiosyncratic Palestinian filmmaker Elia Suleiman made his debut behind the camera here in this 1996 Drama that follows Suleiman himself, known in the film only as “E.S”, returning to Palestine after a long absence, wrestling with both his own personal state and the state of Palestine itself in visual diary format.
- Paradise Now (2006) Hany Abu Assad received his first Academy Award nomination in 2006 for this vital and arresting portrayal of two Palestinian men on the day they are set to become suicide bombers.
68 titles. Sort by List order. 1. West Beirut. 1998 1h 45m PG-13. 7.6 (4.9K) Rate. In April, 1975, civil war breaks out; Beirut is partitioned along a Moslem-Christian line. Tarek is in high school, making Super 8 movies with his friend, Omar.
This is "About love. Adults only. (with Eng. subtitles, 2017) producer Anna Melikyan" by Anna Melikyan on Vimeo, the home for high quality videos and the…
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A list of 36 films compiled on Letterboxd, including Rana's Wedding (2003), Paradise Now (2005), Omar (2013), The Idol (2015) and Captain Abu Raed (2007). About this list: For language learners looking for Levantine listening resources.
Director Rafael Balulu traces the footsteps of Levantine thinker and author Jacqueline Kahanoff and through encounters with her elderly friends in Paris and leading intellectuals in the Mizrachi discourse in Israel, he not only draws a portrait of this impressive thinker, but also discovers the fate of Levantine identity in Israel as a cultural ...
