Ramallah Stories – iBad

The story of three Palestinian girls who swapped any immediate marriage prospects for a life dominated by laptops and social media. The film takes us into their shared home life showing all signs of independence yet without poking fun at tradition.

Ramallah Stories – Check-Point Boy

The story of young Palestinian boys spending most of their childhood selling bric-a-brac at military check points in order to supplement their family’s income. Confronted by the daily repression of Israeli army they dream of a future.

Ramallah Stories – The Street Artist

The portrait of a local artist who turned one of Ramallah old streets into his studio. His art captures the diversity of his city and his drawings the soul and quirkiness of passers-by.

Ramallah Stories – How Delicious

A lovely old Armenian couple runs a pastry shop in Ramallah. She bosses him around but always with a smile and an nice word. The yellow canary may be in cage but it keeps singing.

Benghazi Stories – The Salesman

A quirky, enigmatic car salesman is happy to fob off his desperate clients with old cars as long as the wheels and the body look new. Could that be a metaphor for the Libyan government when you live in Benghazi? This short documentary was made during a SDI documentary workshop …

Benghazi Stories – The Driving Lesson

Driving schools in Benghazi have a huge waiting list so a desperate young female doctor agrees to be taught by her brother. Collisions don’t just happen outside! This short documentary was made during a SDI documentary workshop in Libya, organised by the British Council. Director: Omar Bushiha Camera: Ahmad Alshereef Sound: Mohamed Elghazal …

Benghazi Stories – Poet of the Sea

A Benghazi fisherman has spent a lifetime fishing at sea but once in a while the verses he catches are bigger than his fish. The distance away from the coast gives him time and clarity to reflect and denounce what is happening in Libya. This short documentary was made during …

I Am Breathing

Within one year, Neil Platt becomes paralysed from the neck down. As his body fails, he tries to make sense of his life in order to communicate who he is in a letter to his one year old son.

16 Years Til Summer

A man returns to his village in the Highlands after 16 years in exile. As past traumas resurface, it becomes a daily battle for him to rebuild his life.

Poets of Protest – Writing a Revolution

Ahmed Fuad Negm is one of Egypt’s most revered and political poets, a folk hero whose work was read out at Tahrir square during the revolution.

Poets of Protest – Waiting for Spring

For renowned poet, and outspoken filmmaker, Hala Mohammad, the personal impact of the Syrian uprising has been sudden exile to Paris.

Poets of Protest – Laughter Is My Exit

Yehia has two definitive styles of poetry, his “stand up poetry show” performed in cafes and bars which is funny and brash, and his darker, emotional material relating to his life as a communist solider and death of his mother.

Films

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