About Some Meaningless Events

The Gulf War... What Next?

The second Gulf War from 1990 to 1991 represents in the collective Arab memory a turning point in regards to the Arab nationalism’s self-perception as well as a moment of deep historical and existential insecurity. Five Arab directors discuss the events from their personal perspective.

Cinders of the Vineyard

Directed by Abdelkrim Derkaoui et al.

Provisional Title

A film that describes how someone who is haunted by the idea of death learns to suffer.

The Beautiful Days of Sheherazade

A team of filmmakers is having difficulty choosing a subject to shoot. After lengthy discussion, they finally decide on the story of Aïcha, a beautiful cabaret singer.

Khafaya

The film portrays the confrontation between two female models and gives voice to women by thrusting them, without mercy, onto the most heavily mined battlefield of all… social consciousness. Will it manage to find a way out?

Le Jour du Forain

Moulay Yacoub starts a physical and poetic journey of self-knowledge across Morocco.

Adopcja

Casablanca by Night

Kaltoum is a 15-year-old girl who is forced to work in a nightclub in Casablanca, Morocco to pay for a medical operation for her little brother. to her dismay she discovers the cruel world, that of the city's nightlife.

A Shadow Among Others

Settling of scores among international Marxist revolutionaries. A spirit of Mhedi Ben Barka inspired revolt.

Les amours de Hadj Mokhtar Soldi

The film revolves around a comic character in which he sarcastically discusses many of the issues in Moroccan society, with El Hadji El Souledi, a candidate for elections in Casablanca, whose character is a symbol of illegal wealth and moral corruption. His life is divided among bars, nightclubs and prostitution. While the police officer Adel and beautiful names that are associated with the life of the child and trying to get rid of it and corruption so that they succeed in the latter in it.

Librement Mostafa Derkaoui

Librement Mostafa Derkaoui

Somewhere on a Given Day

An account of the preparations for the staging of Régis Debray’s Notes on Gramsci directed by Stanisław Tym. A group of international students gathered at Warsaw’s 'Stodoła' club discuss philosophy and politics accompanied by the music of Włodzimierz Nahorny’s quartet.

Grizzly Man

Follows the story of "Grizzly Man" Timothy Treadwell and what the thirteen summers in a National Park in Alaska were like in his attempt to protect the grizzly bears. The film is full of unique images and a look into the spirit of a man who sacrificed himself for nature.

Casablanca

In Casablanca, Morocco in December 1941, a cynical American expatriate meets a former lover, with unforeseen complications.

Pornocracy: The New Sex Multinationals

Never before have we watched as much porn as today yet the traditional porn industry is dying. The arrival of web sites showing amateur clips has transformed the way porn is made and consumed. Behind this transformation lies one opaque multinational.

Swades

A successful Indian scientist returns home to his village to take his nanny back to America with him, and in the process rediscovers his roots.

American Hardcore

Inspired by Steven Blush's book "American Hardcore: A tribal history" Paul Rachman's feature documentary debut is a chronicle of the underground hardcore punk years from 1979 to 1986. Interviews and rare live footage from artists such as Black Flag, Bad Brains, Minor Threat, SS Decontrol and the Dead Kennedys.

"Sr."

A portrait of the life and career of Robert Downey Sr. (1936-2021), the visionary and fearless US filmmaker — father of actor Robert Downey Jr. — who in the sixties and seventies laid the foundations for countercultural comedy.