Calgary Arab Film Festival

Masquerades

Algeria, 2008, 92 min

After working for much of his life as a gardener in his dusty Algerian village, Mounir dreams of improving his family’s fortune and gaining a measure of...

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Heat Harara

Morocco, Netherlands, 2007, 97 min

Two friends, Dutch-Moroccan Raja and Dutch-born Nancy, decide to set up a beauty salon, specializing in manicures and henna treatments. Original...

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I Come From a Beautiful Place
Invisible Children
100% Asphalt

Various Countries, 2006 - 2010, approx. 30 min each

I Come From a Beautiful Place describes the lives of five refugees in Lebanon. One of them, Mohammad from Darfur, finds his three brothers and three of his...

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Invisible Children, one of the few films on child labor in Lebanon, provides a sensitive look into the tragic and triumphant lives of working children through...

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100% Asphalt: A street tells its own story. A street that shelters more than 200 million children with only asphalt, noise and rage as their home. 200 million...

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Pomegranates and Myrrh

Palestine, 2008, 95 min

Free-spirited dancer Kamar finds herself alone when her husband is jailed. While dealing with the grief of separation, Kamar must face the moral strictures...

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Falling From Earth

Lebanon, 2008, 75 min

Does it really mean that we have lost our sense of reality when everything sounds like constant explosions? Youssef, a wise fool, lives in the remains of a building...

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Heliopolis

Egypt, 2009, 98 min

Director Ahmed Abdallah follows the intersecting lives of several young residents in the neighborhood of Heliopolis in Cairo through the course of one day. As...

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Just Like Us

U.S.A., 2010, 72 min

Modern technology and globalization have made the world a much smaller place and caused us to be more interconnected as people, yet cultural...

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Slingshot Hip Hop

Palestine/U.S.A., 2008, 83 min

Slingshot Hip Hop braids together the stories of young Palestinians living in Gaza, the West Bank and inside Israel as they discover Hip Hop and employ it as a...

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