Language: Arabic – Wimbledon Film Club

Waltz With Bashir

This animated film depicts director Ari Folman’s search for lost memories of his experience as an Israeli soldier during the 1982 Lebanon War.

The Battle Of Algiers

This cinematic masterpiece of political drama is so convincing that director Pontecorvo announces at the beginning that no newsreel or documentary footage has been used in the making of the film.

Of Gods And Men

One of the most thought provoking films of 2010, this austere, meditative story about faith and martyrdom is based on real events in the Algeria in 1996.

Incendies

Canadian Nawal Marwan has just passed away.

The Source

Set in current times in a Muslim “North African or Arabian village”, this comedy-drama film tells the story of the local women who dare to defy tradition.

Monsieur Lazhar

In Montreal, an elementary school teacher hangs herself.

Wadjda

Young Wadjda can’t have a bicycle – it would be seen as dangerous to her virtue.

5 Broken Cameras

Personal, political documentary of Palestinian protest against Israeli occupation.

Mauretanian director Sissako, who spent part of his youth in Mali, was inspired to make this film when he read an article in Paris newspaper in 2012 about the public stoning of an unmarried couple in the town of Aguelhok (for reportedly having children outside wedlock).

Theeb

It’s World War One and a young Bedouin boy helps guide a mysterious British officer to a rendezvous in the Hijaz desert.