L'Arabie interdite

Documentary made in Yemen (and first film ever shot in this country) under the leadership of archaeologist Jules Barthou. During the adventure of this film, René Clément will serve four days in prison for having conceale

Arabi

One bay cheated the peasants when paying, they left him and organized their own partnership - the "Arabi" team, which bred karakul sheep. They try to stop them: they fill up the steppe wells and infect the cattle. Howeve

Musikalische Arabesken: Suite

This short film is an animated interpretation of the Suite No. 4 by the music ensemble Bayon, which was founded in East Germany in 1971. Bayon’s music is a unique combination of Khmer pentatonic music with elements of cl

Inside the Real Saudi Arabia: Why I Had to Leave

Basma Khalifa was born to Sudanse parents in Saudi Arabia and grew up in Northern Ireland. In this documentary she revisits her country of birth to see if she would ever want to move back there.

Arabiantics

Here we have Felix the Cat in Arabia ... so, roll on the usual Arabian clichés. We get gags involving a flying carpet, a hubble-bubble and a camel.

L'Agonie des arabesques

L’Agonie des arabesques (2014) was created by Gérard Courant inside the Notre-Dame de Fourvière basilica in Lyon (France).

Arabic Numeral Series 12

This is the twelfth film in the twenty-part Arabics series. Brakhage creates blurry visual fields that are profoundly without ground, worlds of unidentifiable, ever-shifting shapes, and oceans of light and darkness.

Die heimliche Revolution - Frauen in Saudi-Arabien

They are clad in the religiously correct abaja, are not allowed to drive and yet still go their own way with confidence. In pioneering work, a new generation of women in Saudi Arabia are fighting for positions as politic

Who Killed Lawrence of Arabia?

Documentary investigating the crash on 13th May 1935 which resulted in the death of T.E. Lawrence (Lawrence of Arabia) six days later.

MBS: Prince With Two Faces

Crown Prince of Saudi Arabia, Mohammed ben Salman (known as MBS) is - at only 34 years old - at the head of a State in Western Asia which has immense oil reserves and weighs on the world economy. This country is also hom

Arabella

Arabella, Op. 79, is a lyric comedy or opera in three acts by Richard Strauss to a German libretto by Hugo von Hofmannsthal, their sixth and last operatic collaboration. Arabella is determined to marry for love, not wea

Arabesque for Kenneth Anger

Filmed at the Alhambra in Spain in just one day, according to Marie Menken. Arabesque for Kenneth Anger concentrates on visual details found in Moorish architecture and in ancient Spanish tile. The date 1961 refers to th

Arabic Numeral Series 5

“With some exceptions, the Arabics take the idea of the void as their ground. That is, the light we do see almost always seems to be set against darkness, or occasionally against white, these momentary flickers that mate

The man who predicted the future of the Arabs

Edward Said's wife and daughter telling a stories and scenes of his own life.

Arabic Numeral Series 14

“With some exceptions, the Arabics take the idea of the void as their ground. That is, the light we do see almost always seems to be set against darkness, or occasionally against white, these momentary flickers that mate

Arabic Numeral Series 3

“With some exceptions, the Arabics take the idea of the void as their ground. That is, the light we do see almost always seems to be set against darkness, or occasionally against white, these momentary flickers that mate

André Miquel. An encounter with the Arabic language

This is a film about a man, with a peculiar itinirary, who worked hard to build a bridge between the Arab and the French cultures. A kind of testimony, alternating narration and conversations where the evocation of onese

Musikalische Arabesken: Dixie-Linien

Second of four "musical arabesks".

Gas the Arabs

Ils ont changé le monde - Les Arabes