Middle East Movies

1907, cinematography by Frank Ormiston-Smith.

Ali Baba steals hidden treasure from some raiders who then seek revenge on his family.

Iranian people’s water requirements are mostly depending on groundwater, though these sources are swiftly ending and the farmers are overusing...

Three friends – a reporter, an oil analyst and a financial executive – reunite after ten years and accidentally uncover one of the key,...

The construction of a dam on the Euphrates River is an example of a country’s economic development. Through grandly composed images, rhythmic...

Lebanese/Canadian artist Jayce Salloum and Elia Suleiman, a Palestinian filmmaker living in New York, have taken on our accumulated (mis)impressions...

You're waiting,aren't you?

A look at the current state of the conflict in the West Bank between settlers and Palestinians.

A group of young UN soldiers in Lebanon enters service with pro-Israeli views and a naive outlook on war. They go through a radical change of heart...

Discusses the situation of the Palestinians in East Jerusalem whose homes have been destroyed by the 1967 war and Israeli urban renewal and...

When Tehran hosts visiting foreign dignitaries, the local authorities clean up the city’s urban image through the controversial process of...

A paranoid criminal and her drug-addicted partner find themselves bound, hand and feet, in the middle of nowhere; she remembers nothing from the day...

Seven years after the fact, the true story of Desert Storm is coming into view. Despite the dominance of the Coalition victory, the outcome was by no...

In a city ravaged by war and famine where there is nothing but wreckage and corpses, a bird struggles to find food for its hungry chickens. But...

When filmmaker Wael Kadlo picks up his mother from the airport in Beirut, it seems like a rather warm family visit. But Kadlo, who was born in...

Caught in a raging sandstorm on Christmas Eve, Santa must find a way to bring presents to children of the Middle East. With the help of Camels...

"While I'm Away" is a first-year student animated short. This short is about the sense of not fully belonging to one place, and missing the other...

The management of waste and the experiences of its toxic afterlives are riddled with uncertainty. How can we make sense of toxicity’s different...