Diary of Eve’s Land

An Afternoon(en)

On a quiet cloudy afternoon, a young man and woman meet for a quiet rendezvous. However, for mysterious reasons, both turn out to be reluctant to see the deed through.

In the Rumbling Belly of Motherland(fa)

As the U.S. planned to withdraw troops from Afghanistan in September 2021, Canadian-Afghan filmmaker and journalist Brishkay Ahmed was filming IN THE RUMBLING BELLY OF MOTHERLAND. Revealing the ongoing dangers for women reporters, and the extraordinary risks they take, this brave film provides an in-depth look into Zan TV, Kabul’s female-led news agency. A professional journalist herself, Ahmed documents both the harrowing and inspiring work of young, female journalists over the course of the two-year lead up to the Taliban takeover of Afghanistan. Following parallel news stories as they unfold – two sets of national elections as well as ongoing U.S.-Taliban peace talks – the film reveals the daily hurdles Afghan female reporters and media staff face, underscoring the existential current events that threaten both Zan TV as a media outlet and the livelihoods of the women at its heart.

Roughing the uppers : the great shoe strike of 1937(en)

Examines the 1937 shoe strike in Lewiston and Auburn, Me. through interviews with surviving participants

Bambi(fr)

Bambi was born Jean-Pierre Pruvot in a tiny Algerian village in 1935. Even as a child, she refused to meet the expectations of her extended family, choosing instead to find a way to become the woman she always knew herself to be. A Cabaret Carrousel de Paris performance in Algiers in the 1950s proved to be all the encouragement she needed to emigrate to the French capital, assume the stage name of ‘Bambi’ and lead the life she longed for on the music-hall stages.

OSS 117 Murder for Sale(it)

A secret agent is sent to the Middle East to destroy a gang of assassins.

Strawberry Night(zh)

Shasha, a long-haired heterosexual girl, was accidentally brought into the sensory world between girls by the short-haired girl Yuzi. All of this subverted her previous cognition of herself, and began to doubt herself, followed by a series of unanswerable questions. While the two were speechless, their friend Jiang Hongyu broke the silence by accidentally breaking in. 3 people sat around listening to the sound outside the window at 4 am in winter...

Los ojitos verdes(es)

1937. Pepita and Mari Carmen spend every afternoon together trying to cope with the loneliness of the war. Between buttons and balls of yarn they talk about life, desires, dreams and love, but that afternoon they did not know what destiny had in store for them. In the end, they will prove that life is like sewing and singing... everything is a beginning.

Oversized Coat(ar)

Over-Sized Coat" is a 120 minutes-length masterpiece which talks about the Palestinian reality for the period of (1987-2011).

Syriana(en)

The Middle Eastern oil industry is the backdrop of this tense drama, which weaves together numerous story lines. Bennett Holiday is an American lawyer in charge of facilitating a dubious merger of oil companies, while Bryan Woodman, a Switzerland-based energy analyst, experiences both personal tragedy and opportunity during a visit with Arabian royalty. Meanwhile, veteran CIA agent Bob Barnes uncovers an assassination plot with unsettling origins.

Power Meri(en)

Power Meri follows Papua New Guinea's first national women's rugby league team, the PNG Orchids, on their journey to the 2017 World Cup in Australia. These trailblazers must beat not only the sporting competition, but also intense sexism, a lack of funding, and national prejudice to reach their biggest stage yet.

Helmut Berger - Mein Leben(de)

Jarhead(en)

Jarhead is a film about a US Marine Anthony Swofford’s experience in the Gulf War. After putting up with an arduous boot camp, Swofford and his unit are sent to the Persian Gulf where they are eager to fight, but are forced to stay back from the action. Swofford struggles with the possibility of his girlfriend cheating on him, and as his mental state deteriorates, his desire to kill increases.

Paradise Now(en)

Two childhood friends are recruited for a suicide bombing in Tel Aviv.

Open Water(en)

Two divers are left out at sea without a boat. There’s nothing but water for miles, unless they look at what’s underneath them...

Ben-Hur(en)

In 25 AD, Judah Ben-Hur, a Jew in ancient Judea, opposes the occupying Roman empire. Falsely accused by a Roman childhood friend-turned-overlord of trying to kill the Roman governor, he is put into slavery and his mother and sister are taken away as prisoners.

Introduction to the End of an Argument(ar)

This highly kinetic tableaux of uprooted sights and sounds works most earnestly to expose the racial biases concealed in familiar images. Relying on valuable snippets from feature films such as "Exodus", "Lawrence of Arabia", "Black Sunday", "Little Drummer Girl", and network news shows, the filmmakers have constructed an oddly wry narrative, mimicking the history of Mid East politics.

A Mission in an Old Movie(ar)

A young man struggles with his overbearing mother while looking for romance and a way to kick-start his show business career

The Merry Gentlemen(en)

To save her parents' small-town nightclub, a Broadway dancer stages an all-male, Christmas-themed revue — and meets a guy with all the right moves.

Le Témoin Nocturne(fr)

Many women are killed in the city during the night by one and the same killer but his identity remains unknown. A young man will therefore want to do his own investigation in order to avenge them.

Begonia(es)

A rythmic gymnast in her twenties starts questioning her youth and worth after a new competitor enters her team.