Halfaouine: Boy of the Terraces

Halfaouine: Boy of the Terraces

Twelve-year-old Noura dangles uncertainly in that difficult netherworld between childhood and adulthood. His growing libido has gotten him banned...

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What the Day Owes the Night

What the Day Owes the Night

Algeria, the 1930s. Younes is nine years old when he is put in his uncle's care in Oran. Rebaptized Jonas, he grows up among the Rio Salado youths,...

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Arab Blues

Arab Blues

Selma, a psychoanalyst, deals with a cast of colorful new patients after returning home to Tunisia to open a practice.

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How Kids Roll

How Kids Roll

In the midst of the war in Gaza during the Second Intifada in 2003, two 12-year-old boys, one Palestinian and one Israeli, along with a former...

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Bezness

Bezness

Roufa is an attractive young man, and that works out well for him because he is a practitioner of "bezness:" he's a sex-for-hire boy for the...

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Noura's Dream

Noura's Dream

With her abusive husband in jail and a coveted divorce pending, hardworking Noura can almost grasp a happy, new life with lover Lassaad — but when...

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Les Zazous de La Vague

Les Zazous de La Vague

In Tunis, Fethi, a pretty face like Brando, and his friend Bannour, naive and shy, are employed in the pastry shop of the Italian Madame Rita...

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The Guest

The Guest

Even though he's been living with Fouad for three years, Malik is going to marry Halima. Since Fouad doesn't accept this marriage, which would...

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Kelmat Rjal

Kelmat Rjal

Dirty Laundry

Dirty Laundry

Quiet Si Radji gets an idea when his screaming and unpleasant wife falls down from the balcony and sprain her foot. He will set up traps...

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Paroles d'hommes

Paroles d'hommes

This film tells the tragicomic destiny of three friends. The same age, they are all three of humble origins. The story begins in the 1970s in Nafta...

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