Australian Premiere and the first Jordanian feature film to be screened in Australia. Winner of the Audience Award at the 2008 Sundance Film Festival, this crowd-pleasing Jordanian feature film is a gentle yet hard-hitting drama set in Amman, Jordan.
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An American flag flies at the head of five identical jeeps heading straight for the city of Beirut. A man sits on the rear brandishing a heavy machine gun. Khaled’s camera captures this moment, and many moments after that, and thus the stories of fear, violence, repression and corruption begin. A feature action-drama set at the height of the Syrian presence in Lebanon - and an insight into Beirut’s underbelly.
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Ein Shams was once the capital of Pharaonic Egypt and a sacred location marked by the visit of Jesus and the Virgin Mary. Now it has become one of Cairo’s poorest and most neglected neighbourhoods.
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Khadija finds solace in the spiritual beauty of the moving word. Mariam discovers wisdom in the most fantastical of places. Assia wants to stop bombs falling on children. And Fatima? She wants to know what will become of Huriyya.
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