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A MATTER OF LIFE AND DEATH DIR. ANAS BA-TAHAF

A MATTER OF LIFE AND DEATH DIR. ANAS BA-TAHAF

BOUCHRA DIR. MERIEM BENNANI and ORIAN BARKI

BOUCHRA DIR. MERIEM BENNANI and ORIAN BARKI

CALLE MÁLAGA DIR. MARYAM TOUZANI

CALLE MÁLAGA DIR. MARYAM TOUZANI

COTTON QUEEN DIR. SUZANNAH MIRGHANI

COTTON QUEEN DIR. SUZANNAH MIRGHANI

DO YOU LOVE ME DIR. LANA DAHER

DO YOU LOVE ME DIR. LANA DAHER

EL SETT DIR. MARWAN HAMED

EL SETT DIR. MARWAN HAMED

HAPPY BIRTHDAY DIR. SARAH GOHER

HAPPY BIRTHDAY DIR. SARAH GOHER

HIJRA DIR. SHAHAD AMEEN

HIJRA DIR. SHAHAD AMEEN

A SAD AND BEAUTIFUL WORLD DIR. CYRIL ARIS

A SAD AND BEAUTIFUL WORLD DIR. CYRIL ARIS

THE PRESIDENT'S CAKE DIR. HASAN HADI

THE PRESIDENT'S CAKE DIR. HASAN HADI

THE STORIES DIR. AB SHAWKY

THE STORIES DIR. AB SHAWKY

THE VOICE OF HIND RAJAB DIR. KAOUTHER BEN HANIA

THE VOICE OF HIND RAJAB DIR. KAOUTHER BEN HANIA

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🇪🇬 THE STORIES Dir. @abshawky Egypt, 1967. Ahmed is trying to become a pianist in a country that has just lost a war. He writes to a pen pal in Austria — and Liz writes back. A.B. Shawky follows that correspondence across two decades, throug
🎆 America turns 250 today. We have just the film for it. 🇪🇬 HAPPY BIRTHDAY Dir. theawesomesarahg Toha is eight years old, works as a maid, and has never had a birthday. When her employer puts her in charge of throwing a party for the family's da
🇸🇦 A MATTER OF LIFE AND DEATH Dir. Anas Ba-Tahaf | @matterlifedeath Haya is convinced she'll die before thirty, so she's decided not to waste a second. She collides with Youssef in an emergency room — a cardiac surgeon who runs his life on r
🇱🇧 DO YOU LOVE ME Dir. @lanamakesfilms | @doyouloveme.film No actors. No narrator. Lana Daher assembled over 20,000 hours of Lebanese archival footage — film, television, home video, photography — and built a love letter to Beirut out
🇮🇶 THE PRESIDENT'S CAKE Dir. Hasan Hadi | @the.presidents.cake Iraq, early 1990s. The country is under sanctions. Nine-year-old Lamia lives with her grandmother in the Mesopotamian Marshes and has a rooster named Hindi. Her school selects her to
🇲🇦 CALLE MÁLAGA Dir. @maryamtouzani María Ángeles is 79. She's lived her whole life in Tangier, knows her neighbors, has her routines. Then her daughter arrives from Madrid to sell the apartment. What follows is the story of
🇸🇩 COTTON QUEEN Dir. @suzannahmirghani Nafisa is a teenager in a Sudanese cotton-farming village. Her grandmother raised her on stories of fighting the British. When a young businessman arrives to modernize the fields, Nafisa discovers she has mor
🇪🇬 EL SETT (OUM KALTHOUM) Dir. @marwanhamed Egypt has just lost the Six-Day War. Umm Kulthum — sick, aging, exhausted — agrees to take the stage one last time. @monazakiofficial plays the woman who became the voice of an entire people
Summer is here. And so are we. 🎬 Twelve films. Reunions. Revelations. Possibly conversations with strangers? ANA Contemporary Arab Cinema 2026 — July 15–23 @bamfilmbrooklyn and July 22–28 @jbfc_pville. El Sett · Cotton
We're back. 🎥 ANA Contemporary Arab Cinema 2026 opens July 15 at @bamfilmbrooklyn and July 22 at @jbfc_pville. Tickets on sale now — links in bio. Presented by @anaarabcinema with @bamfilmbrooklyn , @jbfc_pville and the support of @nyukevo @m
🎬 Check out this week streaming recommendation —Where you can watch THE NILE HILTON INCIDENT by TARIK SALEH (ANA 2017) Country: EGPYT Streaming (US): Strand Releasing Amazon Channel, Fandango at Home Free, Tubi TV, Kanopy Rent (US): Amazon Vi
🎬 Check out this week streaming recommendation —Where you can watch HEDI (INHEBBEK HEDI) by MOHAMED BEN ATTIA (ANA 2017) Country: EGPYT Streaming (US): Rent (US): Streaming (FR): Rent (FR): Apple TV Store, Google Play Movies, Orange VOD, Y