¿Qué significa arriesgar su vida por sus ideales? ¿Hasta dónde van cinco revolucionarios en la defensa de sus creencias en la lucha por su nación? (FILMAFFINITY)
Elias and Susan in New York, between love, exile, and the Arabic revolution.
Túnez, verano de 2010, a escasos meses de la Revolución. Farah, de 18 años, acaba de terminar los estudios secundarios y su familia ya la ve cursando la carrera de Medicina. Pero ella no comparte ese deseo. Canta en una banda de rock comprometida políticamente, se emborracha y dedica las noches a descubrir el amor y su ciudad contrariando la voluntad de su madre Hayet, quien conoce demasiado bien Túnez y sus peligros. (FILMAFFINITY)
Yallah! Underground follows some of today’s most influential and progressive artists in Arab underground culture from 2009 to 2013 and documents their work, dreams and fears in a time of great change for Arab societies. In a region full of tension, young Arab artists in the Middle East have struggled for years to express themselves freely and to promote more liberal attitudes within their societies. During the Arab Spring, like many others of this new generation, local artists had high hopes for the future and took part in the protests. However, after years of turmoil and instability, young Arabs now have to challenge both old and new problems, being torn between feelings of disillusion and a vague hope for a better future.
La guerra en Siria parece tan incomprensible como una caja negra: el conflicto comenzó hace casi diez años e incluso hoy en día muchas personas en Occidente tienen la sensación de que ni siquiera entienden exactamente quién está luchando contra quién. PBS presenta este documental en el que se muestra el origen del conflicto, su trascendencia internacional, así como el problema central: la dictadura totalitaria de un clan familiar.
A través del testimonio de expertos internacionales de renombre como el ex embajador de Estados Unidos en Damasco, Robert Ford, el asesor del gobierno turco Ibrahim Kalin, el comandante en jefe de la oposición armada siria Salim Idris, y Sam Dagher, autor de la aclamada "Assad or We Burn the Country", el documental describe las etapas del conflicto y aclara los motivos detrás de esta guerra.
As the "Arab Spring" protests for justice and democracy spread through the middle east in early 2011, people long repressed by the Bahrain monarchy spontaneously gathered at the central Pearl Square to join in the call for their rights.
The Arab Spring, Yemen 2011. The revolution continues. It's the monsoon season and life goes on smoothly for the inhabitants of Socotra Island. Not far from land, a sailing boat bearing an Israeli flag sinks and the search for survivors begins. A castaway is washed ashore a secluded beach. On the other side of the island, a native dreams of the castaway seeking his help.This adventure begins through the castaway's body, a man who in the sinking of his life sees for the first time a chance to know gratefulness, to be reborn. Will he overthrow destiny? Will he get back alive?
When 24-year-old Hend Nafea is arrested and tortured for demonstrating peacefully in Cairo's Tahrir Square, her pursuit of justice reflects post-revolution Egypt at an uncertain crossroads.
The leaders of Egypt's 2011 revolution discuss the fire, courage and resiliency behind their movement to remove President Hosni Mubarak from office.
Two politically-opposed young women fight to shape their lives along with the political future of Tunisia, the sole country to emerge from the Arab Spring uprisings as a functional democracy.
Amid the tumult of the Arab Spring in Cairo, vendors in a small souk observe the political upheaval while seeking to preserve an ancient tradition of fabric making.
The story of Zineb El Rhazoui, a young Moroccan woman who, in the wake of the Charlie Hebdo attack, finds her life radically transformed : from a censored journalist in Morocco she becomes the most protected woman of France.
The Uprising shows us the Arab revolutions from the inside. It is a multi- camera, first-person account of that fragile, irreplaceable moment when life ceases to be a prison, and everything becomes possible again.
This documentary focuses on a group of women artists, photographers, musicians and actresses who express their hopes in the Arab Spring of 2011 through their crafts. Not only do we get a look at modern day Cairo, Egypt, we also examine the challenges women face there.
Sohrab, un joven soldado iraní, debe acudir a una manifestación para disuadir violentamente a los participantes. En medio del caos, sus enemigos se convierten en congéneres.
In the 14 months prior to the revolution, filmmaker Lillie Paquette follows key opposition figures and young activists as they struggle against the odds and at great personal risk to remove an uncompromising US-backed regime.