Catalogue des films par mot-clé
Danielle Jaeggi, Edwige Kertès | France | 1991 | 13 mn
"In Mesopotamia, long ago there lived a wise man named Adapa. He was just a man but he had been taught by a god, Ea, the god of intelligence and knowledge who had instructed him in the secrets of the world. Adapa, whose wisdom was legendary, was a...
Elisabetta Castana | Italie | 2007 | 50 mn
All Amedeo Guillet’s life is divided between the Western culture and the Islamic culture. His extraordinary story earned him the nickname of "Italian Lawrence of Arabia". Guillet was of noble birth but he chose an adventurous life. Officer and...
Akram Zaatari | France | 2003 | 86 mn
Résultat de trois années de recherche, le film entremêle les images des archives photos, de la télévision et d’internet, dessinant le paysage mental du réalisateur aujourd’hui au Moyen-Orient. Si ce film débute comme une enquête...
Danielle Arbid | France, Belgique | 2002 | 60 mn
I have always wanted to make a long journey in the East. I would leave from Beirut in the direction of Cairo, passing through Haifa, Tel-Aviv and Gaza. I would take the coastal road, alongside the Mediterranean, as far as the Sinai desert... The...
Danielle Jaeggi | France | 1991 | 13 mn
In the beginning when time did exist, neither above, nor below, nor the sea, nor the rivers, nor the streams, the only thing upon the earth was water. Fresh water and salt water...” The storyteller Muriel Bloch recounts the creation of the world...
Alain Jomier | France | 1999 | 52 mn
Un minuscule archipel perdu du golf, à une encablure des côtes de l’Arabie Saoudite et du Quatar... Le plus petit état du monde arabe, à peine cinquante kilomètres de long sur vingt de large. Pour le voyageur pressé, Bahrein est une île...
Florence Strauss | France, Canada, Israël | 2007 | 90 mn
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...
Dima Al-Joundi | France, Belgique, Liban | 2006 | 52 mn
To flee from their country’s extreme poverty and provide for their family’s survival, women from Sri-Lanka leave their country to work as servants in the Middle East, and particularly in Lebanon. Most of the time these maids find themselves...