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The High Dam at Aswan
This is Egypt and one of its symbols, Sad Al-Ali, the massive wonder that is the high dam of Aswan. With a first-person narrative in a soft, husky voice, the film explores the memory of the Nile Valley to tell the story of Lake Nasser and the ecological and human consequences of this construction. Floods caused by the Ethiopian rains spread the silt and evacuated the algae. The order of nature was disrupted, the salt rose and cracked the earth, the crops burned. Sea water reached the water tables. The Nubians fled the valley engulfed by the waters, leaving behind their villages and their culture. Twenty-five years after the construction of the dam, there is no longer any coherence between the lower valley and the Nile. The city of Cairo has expanded, a heterogeneous development where human pollution overflows. The film is a bitter reflection on a lost human philosophy, a dialogue constantly renewed with the land and its river.
High Fences
A depiction of the different social paths and classes within the Egyptian society, shedding light on the intertwined lives and fates of people of different classes, while highlighting issues like the drug trade and its calamitous impact on people and society.
Aswang
A young, unwed, pregnant girl is made an offer she can't refuse. Marry a rich young man with a wealthy estate to please his dying mother, and she'll be well taken care of. What she doesn't know is the family has plans to sacrifice her baby!
Gay ?
"I'm gay, I'm a fag, I'm proud and I really love sex."
Playdate
Two unsuspecting thieves break into the wrong house and must face a sinister home owner.
The Healing Spirit
Salud
After the Fountain of Youth makes immortality accessible, a vulnerable married couple must choose if it really is "til death do us part."
Señor Jazz, the Film by Carlos Inzillo
Documentary about the life and work of Carlos Inzillo, a cultural reference for jazz in Argentina, creator and coordinator of a series of jazz concerts that have been held every Tuesday in the City of Buenos Aires since 1984.
Midwinter Sacrifice
A mythic depiction of a pagan sacrifice in prehistoric Sweden.
The Crush Space
A short film about three siblings with secrets who come back home to stay, Everyone meets up at their mum's house for a family lunch and none of them want her to find out about what their hiding.
Change
I was somewhere between the beggining and the end of life. After winter became spring, and summer became fall, and fall winter again. I always knew change would be constant.
The Gift That Gives
The Gift That Gives follows the story of Callum Mori (Takaya Honda), the author of a book entitled, The Gift That Gives. He makes his first television appearance as a guest of The Arts Corner television show, presented by Kate Sedgeman (Lily Brown-Griffiths), who falls for him. Callum, however, falls for her best friend, Linda (HaiHa Le). Linda owns the bookshop where Callum launches his book but luckily for Kate, fate brings her and Callum’s brother, Austin (Damien Sato) together, as they discover hidden love letters, signed by aliases. Jointly, they all try to find out who penned them.
Of Wives and Mistresses
This is about the trials and tribulations of a man who keeps a mistress at the side while his jealous wife, hires a lowly employee, to spy on her husband's activities.
On the horns of the bull
Attenborough's Wonder of Eggs
David Attenborough has a passion for birds' eggs. These remarkable structures nurture new life, protecting it from the outside world at the same time as allowing it to breathe. They are strong enough to withstand the full weight of an incubating parent and weak enough to allow a chick to break free. But how is an egg made? Why are they the shape they are? And perhaps most importantly, why lay an egg at all? Piece by piece, from creation to hatching, David reveals the wonder behind these miracles of nature.
Azeem Banatwalla: Cometh The Hour
Azeem Banatwalla is back with jokes and observations about the perils of married life, road rage, millennials, and confused African kids.
Strong Boy
"Strong Boy" is offered a promotion for saving a child from being crushed by a trunk, but to the frustration of his girlfriend Mary, he is not ambitious enough to take a white-collar position. But when he thwarts an attempted train robbery and saves the Queen of Lisonia's jewels, he is viewed as a hero and Mary finally agrees to marry him.
Private Moments
Serena Scott is a late-night host on London Talk Radio. Ratings are down, and she has only two weeks to turn things around or management will switch to elevator music. It's also her 27th birthday, and three friends invite for a girls night in where they play "Truth or Dare." All but one chooses "Truth," and by the end of the evening, each woman's story may give Serena an idea that will save her show, her job, and her private life.
Island Breeze: Robby Naish's Windsurfing Fantasy
A documentary film about windsurfing, and how Robby Naish got into it.
