This is not another standard biopic about Frida Kahlo. “Two Fridas” is a poetic film, based on the relation between the Mexican painter and the Costa Rican nurse Judith, who took care of Frida during the final years of her life.
We follow the journey of former soldier Nassif, who fled the war in Iraq by hiding in dark cinemas. During this time, he used to watch his favorite film, “Papillon” (1973), starring Steve McQueen. Nowadays, he is looking for this film among the Iraqi cinemas’ ruins. The search for this lost...
Iraqi theater director Mohsen Sadoon Yasin has spent much of his life in involuntary exile. His daughter, Ishtar Yasin Gutiérrez, has constructed a loving film portrait of her father, and an elegy for a homeland to which they can never return—partly because it has changed so much, and partly...
Girl Aya arrives at the sanatorium, and slowly sinking into the interweaving of complex human relationships, taking a pain and suffering of patients and separated people.
The Invisible is a brief trek through Haiti a month after the catastrophe of January 12, 2010. Via songs and instants of day-to-day life in the city and in the camps, we discover a talented people that want, and deserve, to be reborn. It is a lesson to us all from those who have lost it all, but...
At bottom is a tale of exploring the imagination of a writer, plus a tale of exploring the city of Beirut. The film deals with the initiation to love and the female soul.
