Ali Soliman – MRQE

The Time that Remains

Fri, 22 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000

An examination of the creation of the state of Israel in 1948 through to the present day. A semi-biographic film, in four chapters, about a family spanning from 1948 until recent times. Combined with intimate memories of each member, the film attempts to portray the daily life of those Palestinians who remained in their land and were labelled “Israeli-Arabs,” living as a minority in their own homeland.

Huda’s Salon

Fri, 22 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000

A woman whose visit to a hair salon turns into a nightmare when she is blackmailed by its owner.

Farha

Fri, 22 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000

Palestine, 1948. After the withdrawal of the British occupiers, tensions rise between Arabs and Jews. Meanwhile, Farha, the smart daughter of the mayor of a small village, unaware of the coming tragedy, dreams of going to study in the big city.

200 Meters

Fri, 22 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000

Mustafa and his wife Salwa come from two Palestinian villages that are only 200 meters apart, but separated by the wall. Their unusual living situation is starting to affect their otherwise happy marriage, but the couple does what they can to make it work. Every night, Mustafa flashes a light from his balcony to wish his children on the other side a goodnight, and they signal him back. One day Mustafa gets a call that every parent dreads: his son has been in an accident. He rushes to the checkpoint where he must agonisingly wait in line only to find out there is a problem with his fingerprints and is denied entry. Desperate, Mustafa resorts to hiring a smuggler to bring him across. His once 200-meter journey becomes a 200-kilometer odyssey joined by other travellers determined to cross.

It Must Be Heaven

Fri, 22 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000

Filmmaker Elia Suleiman travels to different cities and finds unexpected parallels to his homeland of Palestine.

The Worthy

Fri, 22 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000

A visually spectacular dystopian take on an Arab world torn apart by social disorder.

Amira

Fri, 22 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000

Amira, a 17 year old Palestinian, was conceived with the smuggled sperm of her imprisoned father, Nawar. Although their relationship since birth has been restricted to prison visits, he remains her hero. His absence in her life is overcompensated with love and affection from those surrounding her. But when a failed attempt to conceive another child reveals Nawar’s infertility, Amira’s world turns upside down.

Mars at Sunrise

Fri, 22 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000

A conflict between a Palestinian artist and an Israeli soldier is told in a surrealist style.

Lone Survivor

Fri, 22 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000

Four Navy SEALs on a covert mission to neutralize a high-level Taliban operative must make an impossible moral decision in the mountains of Afghanistan that leads them into an enemy ambush. As they confront unthinkable odds, the SEALs must find reserves of strength and resilience to fight to the finish.

Chronicle of a Disappearance

Fri, 22 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000

Chronicle of a Disappearance unfolds in a series of seemingly unconnected cinematic tableaux, each of them focused on incidents or characters which seldom reappear later in the film. Among the many unrelated scenes, there is a Palestinian actress struggling to find an apartment in West Jerusalem, the owner of the Holy Land souvenir shop preparing merchandise for incoming Japanese tourists, a group of old women gossiping about their relatives, and an Israeli police van which screeches to a halt so several heavily armed soldiers can get off the car and urinate.