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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.
- 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.
Mar 27, 2024 · Founded in 2012 by Jamal Daniel, Levantine Films is fully committed to finding and producing material that is character-driven, socially relevant and commercially viable.
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.
Apr 30, 2021 · These are our best 10 movies in the Levantine Arabic dialect to watch. Watching Levantine Arabic movies is a great way to learn the language.
May 30, 2019 · Levantine: Directed by Rafael Balulu. With Jacqueline Kahanoff, Eyal Sagui Bizawe, Nissim Calderon, Laura d'Amade. She lived in Cairo, Paris and New York, but died in an old age home in Givatayim.
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 ...
