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During the last weeks of Muammar al-Gaddafi's regime, Fritz Ofner embarked on a road trip through the Libya that is usually left out of the TV sensational pictures.
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During the last weeks of Muammar al-Gaddafi's regime, Fritz Ofner embarked on a road trip through the Libya that is usually left out of the TV sensational pictures.
From Tripoli to Benghazi, meet a grandmother sowing the national flag with relish, a young woman determined to become a film director, a fisherman philosopher, illegal migrants caught in limbo in a detention center, a gr
A short wartime propaganda film documenting the initial progress of the AIF 6th Division during the Western Desert Campaign of WWII. The film records the rapid allied advance across the desert before the fall of Bardia.
American correspondent Mike Malone uncovers a Nazi plot for an uprising of the Arab tribes in Lybia. Pursued by Sheik David and his men, Mike takes refuge in the suite of Nancy Brooks, who is in the British Intelligence.
Libyan documentary.
Filming in her grandparents’ home near Padova in Italy, the director identifies a map of places belonging to their past. Antonio was born in Libya when it was an Italian colony, and he lived in Tripoli where he married N
Isabella Rossellini narrates this memoir of the Sephardic Jewish population in North African prior to WWII.
Documentary about the life of activist Dariush who used to rescue refugees at sea.
A touching cultural documentary following poet "Ahmed Al-Obeidi" from the East and composer "Hanan Al-Rowaiei" from the West, as they unite to recall the history of Libyan social reconciliations during times of conflict.
A historical documentary exploring the unique archaeological and spiritual value of the "Cave Mosque" in Libya, highlighting its historic architectural style carved deep within the earth. The film traces the stories of i
Folk music of the Sahara is an intoxicating experience of sight and sound captured among the Tuareg and Libyan people of North Central Africa. Filmed from the perspective of actually being one of the performers, this min
Ross travels to North Africa as he investigates the arduous journeys taken by those desperate to leave Libya for Europe.
1941: Deep behind enemy lines in the blistering heat of the Sahara, a Kiwi unit of the elite Long Range Desert Group (LRDG) is ambushed by an Italian patrol in the remote valley of Gebel Sherif. In the battle that follow
"Memory of the Sands" is a historical documentary that sheds light on a forgotten period of Arab history: the brutal genocide inflicted upon the Libyan people by the Italian Fascist forces between 1929 and 1934.The film
In the shadow of an anonymous rooms, somewhere in Tunis, a man - Yasine - painfully utters fragments of words. Words that speak about an ancient, shameful, overwhelming wound: a rape, committed by khadafist soldiers duri
When the Libyan coastguard interrupted a rescue operation by the NGO Sea Watch, at least twenty migrants lost their lives, and more were "pulled back" to inhumane detention in Libya. Forensic Oceanography shone a light o
On 6 November 2017, a rescue vessel operated by the NGO Sea Watch (SW) and a patrol vessel of the Libyan coastguard were both en route towards a migrants’ boat, in distress in international waters. The boat, a few hours