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Naqaab
๐ฆ๐ช United Arab EmiratesVeil/Mask โ The story revolves around the life of Sophia (Urvashi Sharma) who lives in Goa. When she is stalked and then attacked by a rapist named Rakesh, Sophia re-locates to Dubai. Here she rents a room in a villa near Jumeirah Beach, owned by wealthy star Karan Oberoi (Bobby Deol). Six months later he proposes to her, and she accepts. Shortly before the marriage, she meets with an unemployed actor, Vicky Malhotra (Akshay Khanna), and is attracted to him, but decides to go ahead and marry Karan. At the altar, she changes her mind, ditches him and decides to move in with Vicky. But things take a turn for the worse.
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Hungama in Dubai
๐ฆ๐ช United Arab EmiratesHyderabadi Bakra โ Two local thieves and cheats Ajju & Mujju come out of jail and are searching for their new Victim. They go to a nearby hotel owned by Nawab Sahb and their journey begins to Dubai.
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Maskeli Beลler: Irak
๐น๐ท TurkeyA Turkish comedy film about an incompetent gang of criminals attempting to capture an oil installation in northern Iraq in order divert the oil to Turkey, which was the third highest-grossing Turkish film of 2007.
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Cool School Camp
๐น๐ท TurkeyClass of teenage students attempting to save their unconventional school from closure, which was one of the highest-grossing Turkish films of 2007.
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Takva: A Man's Fear of God
๐น๐ท TurkeyHumble and introvert Muharrem lives in a solitary and meager existence of a prayer and sexual abstinence adhering strictly to the most severe Islamic doctrines.His extraordinary devotion attracts the attention of the leader of a rich and powerful Istanbul religious group and he offers him an administrative post as a rent collector for their numerous properties. Muharrem's new job throws him into the modern outside world he has successfully avoided for so long. He soon witnesses conflict attitude toward alcohol consumption and goodwill.He notices that he himself has become proud, domineering and even dishonest.To make matters worse, Muharrem's inner peace is unnerved by the tormenting image of seductive woman who tempts him in his dreams,both night and day.With the balance of his devotion now upset,his fear of God begins to eat away at his senses.
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Times and Winds
๐น๐ท TurkeyIn a small, poor village leaning over high rocky mountains, the villagers are simple and diligent people who struggle to cope with a harsh nature. They earn their living off the earth and a few animals they feed. Fathers always prefer one of their sons. Mothers command their daughters ruthlessly. รmer, the son of the imam, wishes hopelessly for the death of his father. When he understands that wishful thinking does not have any concrete results, he begins to search for childish ways to kill his father. Yakup is in love with his teacher, and one day after seeing his father spying on the teacher he dreams too, like รmer, of killing his father. Yฤฑldฤฑz studies and tries to manage the household chores imposed by her mother. She learns with irritation about the secrets of the relationship between men and women.
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Black Book
๐ฎ๐ฑ Israel The 1950s The 1940sTo fight the enemy, she must become one of them. โ In the Nazi-occupied Netherlands during World War II, a Jewish singer infiltrates the regional Gestapo headquarters for the Dutch resistance.
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The Net 2.0
๐น๐ท TurkeyForeign country, no money, no identity, nothing is as it seems... โ The life of a young computer systems analyst is thrown into turmoil after arriving in Istanbul to start a new job. She soon finds her passport missing, her credit cards useless, her bank account empty and her identity stolen. As the story progresses we find people and events may not be what they seem...
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Valley of the Wolves: Iraq
๐น๐ท Turkey ๐ฎ๐ถ Iraq The 2000sWar Without Rules โ The film covers through fiction real-life events like the occupation of Iraq, the execution of Daniel Pearl, the Hood event and the Abu Ghraib torture scandal.
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Offside
๐ฎ๐ท IranSince women are banned from soccer matches, Iranian females masquerade as males so they can slip into Tehran's stadium to see the game between Iran and Bahrain. The ones who are caught and arrested are taken to a holding area and guarded by soldiers. One sympathetic soldier agrees to watch the game through a peephole and recount the action to the impatient fans.
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The Magician
๐น๐ท TurkeyIn the universe, nothing comes from nothing and nothing obliterates from existenial. But look what we can do with a little love... โ Failed magician Iskender decides to do a tour to save his career, but has to bring his grumpy and senile father along. The tour is quite unexpectedly interrupted when a bride actually disappears from the stage.
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Home of the Brave
๐ฎ๐ถ IraqThe day after they get the word they'll go home in two weeks, a group of soldiers from Spokane are ambushed in an Iraqi city. Back stateside we follow four of them - a surgeon who saw too much, a teacher who's a single mom and who lost a hand in the ambush, an infantry man whose best friend died that day, and a soldier who keeps reliving the moment he killed a civilian woman.
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The Curse of King Tut's Tomb
๐ช๐ฌ Egypt The 1920sThousands of years ago, the great Child King Tutankhamen ruled. Few know the details of his life -- No one knows the secrets of his death. All that is about to change.Free -spirited archaeologist Danny Fremont (Casper Van Dien, Sleepy Hollow) is certain that if found, King Tut's Emerald Tablet would hold the power to control the world. Unfortunately, the only one who believes Fremont is his nemesis archaeologist Morgan Sinclair (Jonathan Hyde, Titanic), a member of a secret society who wants the tablet to harness unspeakable evil on the world and will stop at nothing to get it.
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OSS 117: Cairo, Nest of Spies
๐ช๐ฌ Egypt The 1950s The 1940sSecret agent OSS 117 foils Nazis, beds local beauties, and brings peace to the Middle East.
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Climates
๐น๐ท TurkeyMan was made to be happy for simple reasons and unhappy for even simpler ones โ just as he is born for simple reasons and dies for even simpler ones... Isa and Bahar are two lonely figures dragged through the ever-changing climate of their inner selves in pursuit of a happiness that no longer belongs to them.
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The Final Inquiry
๐ฎ๐ฑ Israel The 1st CenturyOne truth could destroy an Empire. โ It is the year 33 of the Vulgar Era. The Emperor Tiberius is troubled by strange phenomena, an earthquake and the sky turning black as an eclipse. His astrologers give him fair warning: their omens indicate that the world is in the throes of a great upheaval and that old gods have been annihilated. A new kingdom is about to rise in the East. The Emperor calls Tito Valerio Tauro, the most prominent
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Heist School
๐น๐ท TurkeyFive high school students plans to steal University Entrance Exam booklets.
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Iraq in Fragments
๐ฎ๐ถ IraqAn opus in three parts, Iraq In Fragments offers a series of intimate, passionately-felt portraits: A fatherless 11-year-old is apprenticed to the domineering owner of a Baghdad garage; Sadr followers in two Shiite cities rally for regional elections while enforcing Islamic law at the point of a gun; a family of Kurdish farmers welcomes the US presence, which has allowed them a measure of freedom previously denied. American director James Longley spent more than two years filming in Iraq to create this stunningly photographed, poetically rendered documentary of the war-torn country as seen through the eyes of Sunnis, Shiites and Kurds.
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What's a Human Anyway?
๐น๐ท TurkeyIn an apartment building where neighbors, friends, and family are living in close quarters, three male protagonists encounter three phases of manhood in Turkish society. Directors Reha Erdem's light touch and slyly amusing style do not miss the opportunity to illuminate some serious points in a strictly patriarchal society.
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Someone to Run With
๐ฎ๐ฑ IsraelThrough the streets of Jerusalem two teenagers' stories will unite to tell the summer adventure of their lives. Tamar is an amazingly talented but very quiet and insecure girl, who leaves behind her home and all she knows, changing herself unrecognizably -from her looks to her attitude- to brace herself for a dangerous mission to help a loved-one. Asaf, a clumsy, naive, and very shy boy working a boring summer job at City Hall, is given quite a mission himself : to take an uncontrollable stray dog from the pound, put it on a leash, and let it lead him back to its owners to be fined. The more stories Asaf hears about this extraordinary girl, the more he falls for her, and as he and Dinkah continue their journey Asaf becomes aware that Tamar is in grave danger.
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The Yacoubian Building
๐ช๐ฌ EgyptCairo: a 70-year-old building of once-luxury flats with tenements on the roof. Zika, an aging libertine, feuds with his sister. Pius Haj Azzam takes a second wife, in secret, to satisfy sexual drive within religious bounds. Bothayna, poor and beautiful, supports her family, wanting to do so with dignity intact. Her former fiancรฉ, Taha, the janitor's son, humiliated by the police, turns to fundamentalism. Hatem, a gay editor, seduces and corrupts a young man from the sticks. Two brothers, Copts, one a tailor and one Zika's factotum, connive for property. Allah is on most everyone's lips, and corruption is in their hearts.
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Destiny
๐น๐ท TurkeyBekir is a young man who runs his father's business. He becomes infatuated with Ugur after she visits his shop one day. However she is in love with Zagor, a violent criminal. In a brawl Zagor kills the 'protector' of the family of Ugur and runs away with Ugur. After two subsequent murders he gets caught and Ugur asks for Bekir's help. She becomes a singer - whore and starts living from city to city following Zagor who is in prison, while Bekir follows her despite the fact that in the meantime he got married and has a child.
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The Maidens' Conspiracy
๐น๐ท Turkey The 15th Century The 14th CenturyConstantinople, XV century. The ladies' complot โ Constantinople, 1401. The emperor of Byzantium asks the famous knight Tirant lo Blanc to free the city from the siege of the Turks. After his victory, Tirant will have to face a more difficult task: to overcome the natural opposition of Carmesina, heiress to the Ottoman Empire, to surrender her most precious treasure.
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ร Jerusalem
๐ฎ๐ฑ Israel The 1940sA tale of friendship between two men, one Jewish and the other Arab, as the state of Israel is being created.
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The International
๐น๐ท TurkeyIt is 80's Turkey, local musicians of Adiyaman are hired by the military and trained to welcome one of the forceful generals of coup regime.
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Gen
๐น๐ท TurkeyA suicide case is informed to the police from a mental hospital in a rocky district. Two policemen comes to hospital to investigate the case. In the same morning, Dr. Deniz comes to hospital as the new psychiatrist. Because of the heavy rain and landslide the only road and telephone connections that provide access to hospital from the city are damaged.There is no transportation to hospital and none can leave hospital. During three days, three patients are killed wildly in the hospital. Everyone becomes anxious. The police deepen the investigation. A mystical patient attracts attention.
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A Small Doomsday
๐น๐ท TurkeyBilge lives a quiet and comfortable life in Istanbul with her spouse Zeki, and daughter Eda and new born child Alp. But they couldn't have gone to a vacation for a long time due to heavy work program of her spouse who is a civil engineer. Also nephews Didem and Bora join to the family who rents a villa in Fethiye for this purpose. The family who will take the road from Istanbul next day fall asleep after a nice dinner. While they are asleep, a great earthquake occurs. Earthquake lasts a short time but the family who was affected from the quake gets off to retreat from Istanbul and this The Little Apocalypse they
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D@bbe
๐น๐ท TurkeyA very large number of people start to commit suicide using brutal and horrible techniques and without any reasons. Starting from the United States, this suicide wave spreads all over the world. In Turkey, in a small town called Selcuk, a young man kills himself after a long, night he spends on the Internet. Following the incident, his best friends start to get strange e-mails from him. They also start seeing horrible creatures around themselves--this is just the begining of the apocalypse.
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Ice Cream, I Scream
๐น๐ท TurkeyAli, who is ice cream salesman in Mugla, tries to survive in the face of fierce competition from the big ice cream brands. While trying to promote his ice cream, he tours the village with his brand new yellow ice cream motorbike. However the naugthy boys of the town who are chasing him to have free ice cream, steal the motorbike while he is away. Still repaying the debts for the loan on his motorbike, Ali becomes furious and accuses the big ice cream brands of stealing the car in order to destroy him. He starts investigating the theft of his motorbike asking one by one to the sellers of the big brands, while all along the naugthy boys are enjoying their free ice cream
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These Girls
๐ช๐ฌ EgyptThe story of several young women living on the streets of Cairo.
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Boreas
๐น๐ท TurkeyLiving with elderly relatives in a remote old house in the mountains the Child reticently observes the daily routine of rustic life and glimpses the mysteries of life and death.
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Lร -bas
๐ฎ๐ฑ IsraelChantal Akerman reflects on a variety of themes during her stay in Israel, mostly filming from the recesses of her apartment.
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Balram v/s Tharadas
๐ฆ๐ช United Arab EmiratesBalram vs Tara Das is the sequel of Inspector Balram. Balram (Mammootty) who comes across a huge a cache of arms and ammunitions. Investigations point a finger at don Taradas. His lover Supriya is arrested. So comes Taradas from Dubai to take on the Kerala police. The fight is between evil and good.
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Akamas
๐จ๐พ Cyprus The 1960sOmeris, a Turkish Cypriot boy, grows up with Greek-Cypriots in the innocent years of his homeland. He has been taught that human beings have no differences between them, whether they call themselves Greek or Turk, Muslim or Christian. When he falls in love with a Greek-Cypriot girl, he realizes that the world is not as he imagined it to be.The game of love has many surprises in store for him. Destiny ordains that he fight so that he can stay with his beloved, at a moment when the people around him are moving in exactly the opposite direction, towards separation and partition. If he doesn't want to be defeated he must fight the absurdity of fanaticism that is invading his personal life and is trying to crush it.
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5 Days
๐ต๐ธ PalestineChronicles the Israeli Defense Forces as they evacuate 8,000 Jewish settlers from the Gaza Strip in five days to make way for 250,000 Palestinians.
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Cinema 500 km
๐ง๐ญ Bahrain ๐ธ๐ฆ Saudi ArabiaBring your passport, we are going to Cinema โ From the only country in the world with no cinema theaters, a movie young fan crosses borders for the first time ever so he can watch a movie in a cinema for the first time.
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A Bahraini Tale
๐ง๐ญ Bahrain The 1960sSet during the Arab-Israeli war of 1967, this epic drama is both the personal story of a middle-class Bahraini family and an account of the hopes and faith the Arab world had in Jamal Abdul Nasser as its leader. Intimately told, it skillfully interweaves the personal and the general to reveal a society built on male domination and female sacrifice, as women attempt to enjoy freedom of choice.
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What's Up?
๐ธ๐ฆ Saudi ArabiaThe film is a comedy-drama that recounts the story of a family torn between modernity and tradition in Saudi Arabia.
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Afghan Muscles
๐ง๐ญ BahrainThe young men of Afghanistan have discovered the art of bodybuilding. In a country ravished by war, these men still hold on to their dreams; dreams of muscle, honour and fame - absolute control of the body in a world of chaos.
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Jarhead
๐ฐ๐ผ Kuwait The 1980s The 1990sWelcome to the suck. โ Jarhead is a film about a US Marine Anthony Swoffordโs experience in the Gulf War. After putting up with an arduous boot camp, Swofford and his unit are sent to the Persian Gulf where they are eager to fight, but are forced to stay back from the action. Swofford struggles with the possibility of his girlfriend cheating on him, and as his mental state deteriorates, his desire to kill increases.
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Paradise Now
๐ฎ๐ฑ IsraelFrom the most unexpected place, come a new call for peace โ Two childhood friends are recruited for a suicide bombing in Tel Aviv.
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Syriana
๐ฎ๐ท Iran ๐ฑ๐ง LebanonEverything is connected. โ The Middle Eastern oil industry is the backdrop of this tense drama, which weaves together numerous story lines. Bennett Holiday is an American lawyer in charge of facilitating a dubious merger of oil companies, while Bryan Woodman, a Switzerland-based energy analyst, experiences both personal tragedy and opportunity during a visit with Arabian royalty. Meanwhile, veteran CIA agent Bob Barnes uncovers an assassination plot with unsettling origins.
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Munich
๐จ๐พ Cyprus ๐ฎ๐ฑ Israel ๐ฑ๐ง Lebanon The 1970sThe world was watching in 1972 as 11 Israeli athletes were murdered at the Munich Olympics. This is the story of what happened next. โ During the 1972 Olympic Games in Munich, eleven Israeli athletes are taken hostage and murdered by a Palestinian terrorist group known as Black September. In retaliation, the Israeli government recruits a group of Mossad agents to track down and execute those responsible for the attack.
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Kingdom of Heaven
๐จ๐พ Cyprus ๐ฎ๐ฑ Israel ๐ต๐ธ Palestine The 12th CenturyBe without fear in the face of your enemies. Safeguard the helpless, and do no wrong โ After his wife dies, a blacksmith named Balian is thrust into royalty, political intrigue and bloody holy wars during the Crusades.
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Lord of War
๐ฑ๐ง Lebanon The 1980s The 1990s The 2000sWhere there's a will, there's a weapon โ Yuri Orlov is a globetrotting arms dealer and, through some of the deadliest war zones, he struggles to stay one step ahead of a relentless Interpol agent, his business rivals and even some of his customers who include many of the world's most notorious dictators. Finally, he must also face his own conscience.
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Live and Become
๐ฎ๐ฑ Israel The 1980s The 1990sIn 1980 the black Falashas in Ethiopia are recognised as genuine Jews and are secretly carried to Israel. The day before the transport the son of a Jewish mother dies. In his place and with his name (Schlomo) she takes a Christian 9-year-old boy.
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