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Pour faire changement (To Make a Change) •
Where Dollars Grow on Trees (Les voleurs de job) - 1980 •
La phonie furieuse - 1982 •
Beyrouth! Not Enough Death to Go Round - 1983 Filmed after the massacres of Palestinian and Lebanese Muslims in Sabra and Shatila, the documentary explores the suffering of people displaced by war. The film follows the workers' daily lives: rescuing food discarded by the grocery stores and restaurants to cook into 300 meals per day, talking to school officials about feeding disadvantaged children, and exploring the poor neighbourhoods around them. It is a French film with English subtitles, 110 minutes long. These women are different in their beliefs
— Muslim, Christian, and nonbeliever
— yet they sustain their friendship despite their differences. They speak frankly, listen, and laugh with each other. •
For a Song - 2001 •
Soraida, a Woman of Palestine - 2004 The film tells the story of Palestinians living under Israeli occupation in the 1990s, focusing specifically on Soraida Abed Hussein and her family: husband Rifaat Sabah, daughter Rantia, and son Aram. It shows the injustice of the illegal occupation through curfews, internal displacement, house demolitions, and an apartheid wall which separates family owners from each other and landowners from their land. However, the Palestinians feel that the subjugation is not merely physical but also spiritual. She teaches her children to love each other, their family, and their land
— even their names, Rantia and Aram, are the names of Palestinian villages, which Soraida chose so that the memory of the land will not die. Soraida chooses to "be free in thought, conscience, and spirit." The Arabic documentary with English subtitles was nominated for the best Québec Documentary in the 2004
Prix Jutra nominations. •
These Girls - 2005 The 66 minute long documentary follows the lives of a group of young homeless girls in Cairo. It explores the resilience required to live in fear of being raped, attacked, or kidnapped by men. Some of the girls even have scars on their faces from past attacks. Most of them are glue-sniffers which they supplement with pills. One girl, Abeer, was told that her father wants to kill her since she brought dishonour to the family by having a baby out of wedlock. It was shown at a special screening at the
Cannes Film Festival, in a noncompeting category. It is the first film produced by the newly resurrected Studio Masr. •
Neighbors - 2007 The documentary, focusing on the once-luxurious
Garden City quarter of Cairo, explores the relationship between past and present relationships between Egypt and foreign governments. The Garden City was once inhabited by the wealthy but has since been encroached upon by the US Embassy, which has frustrated many local shop owners. Switching between shots of abandoned villas and the perimeter of the embassy, the film discusses the ways in which foreign governments continue to impose on the Egyptian people. == References ==