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When Flight 149 landed in the middle of a warzone, the passengers and crew became human shields for Saddam Hussein. Thirty years later, the hostages are launching a legal case to discover the truth about why the plane landed in the first place.

This film made by a Palestinian-Israeli collective shows the destruction of the occupied West Bank's Masafer Yatta by Israeli soldiers and the alliance which develops between the Palestinian activist Basel and Israeli journalist Yuval.

In a small village nestled amidst the chaos of war, a resilient woman takes it upon herself to write heartfelt letters to the soldiers at the front lines, sharing snippets of the village life they left behind. The woman's letters become a beacon of hope, providing a brief respite from the harsh realities of war. As the years pass, news of her passing reach the senior commander of the troops. Intrigued by the impact of her letters, he decides to visit the village with a group of enemy soldiers in tow.

For the first time in decades, an exile arrives in Palestine and enters his family home. His mission is to recollect and liquidate remnants of the past. His expedition across the present connects him with places, people, and Palestinian plains. The plot thickens when his encounters lead him to a confrontation with Abu Bassam, a steward of the land, who reminds him that Palestine always remembers its people and keeps their roots alive. The exile’s mission transforms from liquidation to reincarnation, leading to a new state of permanence.

It follows the story of Azouz and Mahdi, two policemen who are completely different in personality and character. One is reckless and the other is honest and loyal to his family. Their partnership in work leads them to a series of events full of action and comedy.

After running away from his negligent parents, committing a violent crime and being sentenced to five years in jail, a hardened, streetwise 12-year-old Lebanese boy sues his parents in protest of the life they have given him.

Halim has been married to Mina for a long time, with whom he runs a traditional caftan store in the medina (old town) of Salé, Morocco. The couple has always lived with Halim's secret – his homosexuality – about which he has learned to keep quiet. However, Mina's illness and the arrival of a young apprentice upsets this balance. United in their love, each will help the other face his fears.

When ISIS took their homes, families and city, one group of men fought to take it all back. Based on true events, this is the story of the Nineveh SWAT team, a renegade police unit who waged a guerrilla operation against ISIS in a desperate struggle to save their home city of Mosul.

To be able to travel to Europe and find the love of his life, Sam Ali, a Syrian refugee, accepts to have his back tattooed by one of the most sulfurous contemporary artist; becoming that way a precious work of art.

The Square looks at the hard realities faced day-to-day by people working to build Egypt’s new democracy. Cairo’s Tahrir Square is the heart and soul of the film, which follows several young activists. Armed with values, determination, music, humor, an abundance of social media, and sheer obstinacy, they know that the thorny path to democracy only began with Hosni Mubarak’s fall. The life-and-death struggle between the people and the power of the state is still playing out.

As daily airstrikes pound civilian targets in Syria, a group of indomitable first responders risk their lives to rescue victims from the rubble.

The film captures the daily duality of three young Palestinian women in Tel Aviv, caught between hometown tradition and big city abandon, and the price they must pay for a lifestyle that seems obvious to many: the freedom to work, party, have sex, and choose.

A social drama about four marginalized prostitutes in Marrakech and their complex relations with their families and society at large.

An enterprising Saudi girl signs on for her school's Quran recitation competition as a way to raise the remaining funds she needs in order to buy the green bicycle that has captured her interest.

In the Ottoman province of Hijaz during World War I, a young Bedouin boy experiences a greatly hastened coming of age as he embarks on a perilous desert journey to guide a British officer to his secret destination.

In a remote, isolated Lebanese village surrounded by land mines, Muslims and Christians live together in peace. As civil strife starts to engulf the country around them, the women in the village try, by various means and to varying success, to keep their men in the dark by sabotaging the village radio, and then destroying the village TV.

After a tempest, fishermen do not find only fish in their nets. That is what happens to Jafaar, a poor fisherman who lives poorly in Gaza. And what he hauls in is really upsetting: imagine that, a pig! An unclean animal judged impure not only by the Faith of Islam but also by the Jewish religion. Determined to get rid of the animal, Jafaar tries desperately to sell it, first to a United Nations official, then to a Jewish colony where Yelena raises pigs not for their meat but for security reasons. Of course, going unnoticed in the company of a "forbidden" animal, among his Palestinian brothers, past Israeli soldiers and under the scrutiny of Islamic fundamentalists is no bed of roses and a series of misadventures await Jafaar.

In a beauty salon in Beirut the lives of five women cross paths. The beauty salon is a colorful and sensual microcosm where they share and entrust their hopes, fears and expectations.

Qinawi, a physically challenged peddler who makes his living selling newspapers in the central Cairo train station, is obsessed with Hanuma, an attractive young woman who sells drinks. While she jokes with him about a possible relationship, she is actually in love with Abu Siri, a strong and respected porter at the station who is struggling to unionize his fellow workers to combat their boss' exploitative and abusive treatment.

In this dramedy, eight women in their forties tackle life together, navigating its challenges and experiences, ranging from marriage and divorce, to motherhood, family, infidelity, money and much more…

The story revolves around a family whose names all begin with the letter S. Many funny situations occur between them in their daily lives, as they try to solve their personal and common issues.

Living under Ottoman rule, the series sheds light on the challenges and hardships they face, from a complex conflict between them and the occupiers in an eventful time period ranging from the 18th to the 19th century

Living under the same roof with her family, a widowed matriarch manipulates the life of her children and their spouses, sparking conflict over tradition and personal desires - all in the name of a love that stifles.

Under one roof with her family, a widowed mother manipulates the lives of her children and their spouses, sparking conflicts over traditions and personal desires... All in the name of her suffocating love for them.

A Kuwaiti mother has six daughters and one son struggling with her daughters after leaving her husband's house to start a new life.

Five female students gathered in a residence in one of the Gulf countries, where they live a life full of excitement, adventures, and happy and sad surprises, and they went through a semester that cannot be forgotten. So the question they want remains: Will they achieve the goal of this study mission?

The series depicts the executions of sentences in satirical ways through the convicts working in the circus, with an emphasis on comedy to convey social messages.

When a thief steals Omaima's car, he finds her child inside and he takes her with him. Omaima's life begins to collapse, as she believes that she has lost her daughter, which makes her devotes her life to supporting the orphans' rights in various care homes.

The role of events in the seventies of the last century, when Kuwait was an example of human and material development and progress. The series deals with several social and humanitarian issues, such as social class, materialism, love of control and equality between men and women, through three families that struggle directly and indirectly among themselves.

The events of the series revolve around “Abu Ibrahim” (Saad Al-Faraj), whose house burns and loses all his family, after which he lives a stage of schizophrenia and a painful and poignant life because of his feeling of guilt for what happened.

The series talks about a family consisting of a father, a mother, and their children, and the daily life problems and comic paradoxes they face.

In a social and dramatic context, the series dealt with betrayal in general, whether it was between friends, sisters, or loved ones, and the extent of the impact of this phenomenon on society in general and within the family in particular.

I Will Not Ask for Divorce is a Kuwaiti series that revolves around a case, based on a question, which is: who asks for divorce, the man or the woman, and sheds light on the relationship between the woman and the man, and the problems that stand in the way of marital happiness until the matter reaches between them an emotional divorce and isolation, but both of them refuse to ask Divorce, for fear that he will give up his material rights.

The work, which revolves around the story of five teenage girls in a secondary school, monitors the relationship of these girls with their society, their families, and their academic environment. Each episode deals with a new event in the girls' lives in terms of raising teenage problems, their issues, their view of society, principles and beliefs, and the impact of family and social problems on them.