The 12th Annual Arab Film Festival Announces Line-Up
12th Annual Arab Film Festival (16-28 October 2008)
FEATURE FICTION FILMS
All My Life (Dir. Maher Sabry / Egypt/USA / 2008 / 120min)
Amours D’ Enfants (Dir. Fares Khalil / Lebanon / 2008 / 107min)
Bahraini Tale (Dir. Bassam Al Thawadi / Bahrain / 2007 / 96min)
Burned Hearts (Dir. Ahmed El Maanouni / Morocco / 2007 / 84min)
Captain Abu Raed (Dir. Amin Matalqa / Jordan / 2007 / 110min)
Falling from Earth (Dir. Chadi Zeneddine / Lebanon / 2007 / 70min)
Four Girls (Dir. Hassin Al Halibi / Bahrain / 2008 / 144min)
Out of Coverage (Dir. Abdellatif Abdulhamid / Syria / 2008) -Out of Competition
Paloma Delight (Dir. Nadir Mokneche/ Algeria / 2007/ 134min)
The President’s Chef (Dir. Saeed Hamed / Egypt / 2008) -Out of Competition
Samira’s Garden (Dir. Latif Lahlou / Morocco / 2007 / 110min)
Seventh Heaven (Dir. Saad Hendawy / Egypt / 2008 / 100min)
The Shadow of Silence (Dir. Abdullah Al Muheisen / Saudi Arabia / 2006 / 96min)
The TV Is Coming (Dir. Moncef Dhouib / Tunisia / 2006 / 95min) -Out of Competition
Waiting for Pasolini (Dir. Daoud Aoulad-Syad / Morocco / 2007 / 100 min) -OPENING -Out of Competition
The Yellow House (Dir. Amor Hakkar / Algeria / 2008 / 84min)
FEATURE NON-FICTION
33 Days (Dir. Mai Masri/ Lebanon / 2007 / 70 min)
Amina (Dir. Khadija Al-Salami / Yemen / 2008 / 52min)
Dancers (Dir. Celame Barge / Egypt / 2007 / 51min)
Gaza Souvenirs (Dir. Samuel Albaric / France / 2006 / 46min)
Life after the Fall (Dir. Kasim Abid / Iraq / Documentary / 2008 / 155 min)
Made in Egypt (Dir. Karim Goury / Egypt / France / 2006 / 69min)
Memory of a Woman (Dir. Lassaad Oueslati / Tunisia / 2008 / 52min)
Recycle (Dir. Mahmoud Al-Massad / Jordan / 2007 / 78 min)
Refugees for Life (Dir. Hady Zaccak / Lebanon / 2008 / 48min)
Roundabout Chatila (Dir. Maher Abi Samra / Lebanon / 2005 / 50min) -Out of competition
Seeing through the Sand (Dir. Noor Al-Dabbagh / Saudi Arabia / 2008 / 50min)
Slingshot Hip Hop (Dir. Jackie Salloum / Palestine / 2008 / 89min)
Storm from the South (Dir. Walid Al Awadi / Kuwait / UAE / 2006 / 52min)
Waiting for the Day (Dir. Meyar al Roumi / France/Syria / 2003 / 50min) -Out of competition
War, Love, God, Madness (Dir. Mohamed Al-Daradji / Iraq / 2008 / 72 min) -Out of competition
The Way North: Maghrebi Women in Marseille (Dir. Shara K. Lange. / France / 2007 / 58min)
SHORT FICTION
Alienation (Dir. Fady Copty / Palestine / 2007 / 8min)
Arafat & I (Dir. Mahdi Fleifel/ Palestine/UK / 2008 / 15min)
At the Day’s End (Dir. Sherif El Bendary / Egypt / 2007 / 15min)
Before the Wind Blows (Dir. Samer Najari / Canada / 2006 / 18min)
Bint Mariam (Dir. Saeed Salmeen Al Murry / UAE / 2008 / 25min)
The Cistern (Dir. Lassaad Oueslati / Tunisia / 2006 /12min) -Out of Competition
Clean Hands Dirty Soap (Dir. Karim Fanous / Egypt / 2007 / 25min)
Dead Fish (Dir. Malik Amara / Tunisia / 2008 / 19min)
Flou (Dir. Youssef Britel / Morocco / 2007 / 6min)
Free to Fly (Dir. Sajeda Abousaif & Alabbas Saed / Jordan / 2008 / 6min)
I Am Ready (Dir. Omar Saleh / Jordan / 2008 / 12min)
Karma (Dir. Faisal Alibrahim / Kuwait / 2007 / 10min)
Messaoud (Dir. Omar Mouldouira / Morocco / short fiction / 2006 / 8 min)
The Maid (Dir. Heidi Saman / Egypt / 2008 / 19min)
Neighbors (Dir. Gina Asfou
r / Palestine / 2008 / 13 min)
Noor (Dir. Eyas Salman / Palestine / 2008 / 20 min)
Pickled (Dir. Razi Najar / Palestine / 2008 / 16 min)
Tenbak (Dir. Abdullah Hassan Ahmed / UAE / 2008 / 26min)
Tough Crowd (Dir. Iman Zawahry / USA / 2007 / 9min)
The Shooter (Dir. Ihab Jadallah / Palestine / 2007 / 7min)
The View (Dir. Hazim Bitar & Rifqi Assaf / Jordan / 2008 / 16min)
A Winter Day’s Visits (Dir. Ismaeel Hamdy / Egypt / 2007 / 37min)
Ya Hala Wood (Dir. Hazim Bitar / Jordan / 2008 / 10min)
The Young Lady and the School (Dir. Mohamed Nadif / Morocco / 2008 / 10min)
The Young Lady and the Teacher (Dir. Mohamed Nadif / Morocco / 2007 / 16min)
SHORT NON-FICTION
Against the Light (Dir. Koutaiba al Janabi / UK/Czech Republic / 2007 / 15min)
A Candle for the Shabandar Cafe (Dir. Emad Ali / Iraq / 2007 / 23min) -Out of competition
Deadly Playground (Dir. Katia Saleh / Lebanon / 2007 / 23min)
Doctor Nabil (Dir. Ahmed Jabbar / Iraq / 2007 / 15min) -Out of competition
Leaving (Dir. Bahram Al Zuhairi / Iraq / 2007 / 23min) -Out of competition
Merely a Smell (Dir. Maher Abi Samra / Lebanon / 2007 / 11min)
Mimoune (Dir. Gonzalo Ballester / Spain/ Morocco / 2006 / 11min)
Nights and Days (Dir. Lamia Joreige / Lebanon / 2007 / 17min)
Not My Turn Yet (Dir. Rabee Zureikat & Hazim Bitar / Jordan / 2008 / 6min)
Open Eyes (Dir. Jana Sintschnig / USA / 2007 / 7min)
Out of the Frame (Dir. Nizar Annadawi / Iraq / 2007 / 22min)
A Palestinian Mural (Dir. Norma Shiheiber/ USA / 2008 / 12 min)
(Posthumous) (Dir. Ghassan Salhab / Lebanon / 2007 / 28min)
A Stranger in His Own Country (Dir. Hassanain Al Hani / Iraq / 2007 / 10min) -Out of competition
When Walls Speak (Dir. May Odeh / Palestine / 2008 / 16 min)
