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Series
Criterion collection volume 690
Language
Arabic
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Trances: "The ... Moroccan band Nass El Ghiwane is the ... subject of this ... musical documentary"--Container.
Housemaid: "The story of the devastating effect an unstable housemaid has on the domestic cocoon of a bourgeois, morally dubious music teacher, his devoted wife, and their precocious young children"--Container.
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Arabic
Description
Reveals the dire reality of foreign domestic workers in Middle Eastern countries such as Lebanon. The documentary offers an intimate insight into the private lives of employers, agents, and maids. Laws create a legal structure of inequality and power imbalance that encourages corruption and abuse. Sexism and the patriarchal system discriminate against Lebanese women, in turn, perpetuating abuse against foreign domestic workers. Exposing a modern form...
4) Trances
Series
Criterion collection volume 689
Language
Arabic
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Description
The groundbreaking Moroccan band Nass El Ghiwane is the subject of this captivating documentary by Ahmed El Maanouni, who filmed the four musicians during a series of electrifying live performances in Tunisia, Morocco, and France.
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Language
Arabic
Description
Set against the backdrop of the Lebanese civil war in Beirut, Faten tells the story of a young teenager set on excelling at school who has her normal life disrupted by the war. Forced to leave her village to work as a maid in Beirut, she faces many difficult situations but she overcomes them with her wit, ambition and the aid of a few supportive friends.
7) Maryanila
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Language
Arabic
Description
Marianela, a poor orphan who has been disfigured in an accident, develops a special relationship with Pablo, a handsome blind man. When Pablo recovers his eyesight, Marianela's fragile world is shattered.