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A new generation of freelance photographers flies low-cost to war zones on their own dime in the hope of selling images to printed media or websites. The carefree attitude of their youth is quickly lost when they are confronted with reality. Take Corentin Fohlen, a young photo-journalist who travels...

Officially, the Rif war was fought from 1920 to 1926, to crush the rebellion towards independance led by AbdelKrim in a remote area of Morocco. This war involved hundreds of thousands of men and considerable resources. The Rif war not only called into question the colonial system, but it also marked...

The film returns to the origins of the creation of the State of Israel and looks at the history of Zionism (1896-1948) under the very specific angle of the responsibility of the Western World. Through the analysis of internationally renowned scholars and astonishing cinematographic archives, the fil...

Cairo, Alexandria, Tel Aviv, Beirut, Damascus, Aleppo, Palmyra... In a troubled world, these cities share a common inheritance, that of classical Arab music. Florence leaves Paris for the Middle East to discover an unknown and hidden part of her past. Her journey and quest are transformed by the peo...

The Iran-Irak war lasted eight years: from 1980 to 1988. Enormous frescos of the faces of those who died in the war cover the walls of every Iranian city. These portraits exalt the “martyrs”. Today, seventeen years after the end of the war, a whole generation later, the martyrs faces are still a ...

During the period of one year, Iranian exiles followed the « green revolution » via Internet from the street demonstrations to the so called trials.. Between the anonymous amateur images and the official government images, the feelings expressed in emails they received and the official speeches, the...

On January 25, 2011, Egyptian people rose up. Suddenly, the entire world is taken aback: in only 18 days, the popular rebellion caused the fall of Mubarak’s regime. Katia Jarjoura’s new film takes us three months earlier when anger was already brewing beneath the surface. Outraged by the illegitima...

A few kilometers south of Tangier, near the port town of Asilah, lies the wide golden beach of Sidi Mghait. It is a peaceful place, overlooked by the simple farmhouse of a peasant family, a luxurious modern villa built by a wealthy European businessman, and a small mosque. Appearances here are decep...

Anna Roussillon’s I Am The People is the charming, funny and fascinating portrait of a family, far from Tahrir Square in Egypt’s rural South, as they follow the Tahrir uprising via television news and local papers. From the toppling of President Mubarak to the election of Mohamed Morsi, the film cha...

Mojtaba, Hamzeh, Zar are among other individuals who have been thrown into prison and ideologically interrogated in Iran. In this documentary, the director wants them to interrogate him as agents of the Islamic Republic might. He would like the real torturer in Iran to see himself through the film a...