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There are some great films from Palestine, Israel, Yemen, Iraq, Iran, Afghanistan to name some places I have enjoyed films from. I know there are good films about and by Pakistanis, Kazakhstan, and other "Stans". I really appreciate seeing the many human sides (portrayed in the films) of these countries when the political side is what is usually in our faces. Seattle has some great film connections and these people come out for the Seattle International Film Festival in June and the Arab and Iranian Film Festival (maybe this year combined with SIFF). Film directors and producers are also all over Seattle during SIFF. For example, last year I saw "A New Day in Old Sanaa" - one of the first contemporary films partially funded by the Yemeni Government which was persuaded by a Yemeni filmmaker living in London. The filmmaker was at the showing and I learned quite a lot about Yemen and Sanaa and how hard it was to get funding by watching this interesting film and meeting the film-maker. I even would like to visit Sanaa or maybe work there, now that I saw it in the film and saw the Yemeni filmmaker. Before that, Yemen was sort of a gray area on a map of the Arabian Peninsula to me. So I would like to see some films from the Middle East, Africa and "the Stans".
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i would like to see more african films on jaman in particular
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I agree, it would be nice to see films from this part of the world.
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i too love arabic films my husband is syrian and we would love to see more arabic films we have to rely on his friends sending us dvds which usually get ruined in the post so yep im all for more arabic movies including turkish some great comedy films and documentaries
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I got turned onto Middle Eastern and North African films while living in Paris. Many of my friends were from Algeria, Iran, Tunisia, etc., and they would introduce me to films that I would never encounter in the U.S. through traditional film distribution channels.
While living there, I was lucky enough to see the colorful "Le Destin" of Youssef Chahine and the philosophical and highly memorable "Le Goût de la cerise" of Abbas Kiarostami. I have a soft spot for Kiarostami even though I may not spell his name correctly every time.
It put me on a trajectory of searching for great films from this part of the world and if you're curious to test out more, see if you can get a hold of these titles:
Leila by Dariush Mehrjui
Children of Heaven by Majid Majidi
Hamam by Ferzan Ozpetek
The Circle by Jafar Panahi
Gabbeh by Mohsen Makhmalbaf
Walk on Water by Eitan Fox
Kadosh by Amos Gitai
Persepolis by Marjane Satrapi
And this is just a mere sampling. However, it will give you a solid lead into the wide range of topics that interest directors from this part of the world: family drama, children's story, fairytales, women's rights, gay life, political vengeance, song-and-dance melodrama, battle for emancipation, etc.
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