https://mrqe.com Sun, 19 Jul 2026 10:38:02 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.8.2 https://mrqe.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/01/MRQE-favicon-1.png https://mrqe.com 32 32 https://mrqe.com/movie/tales-of-the-purple-house-m100141388/ Thu, 11 Sep 2025 04:00:00 +0000 https://staging.mrqe.com/movie/tales-of-the-purple-house-m100141388/ From their ‘Purple House’ in the South of Lebanon, French-Iraqi director Abbas Fahdel and his Lebanese wife, the painter Nour Ballouk, start exploring a multifaceted country that seems to be on the edge of the abyss.

]]> https://mrqe.com/movie/homeland-iraq-year-zero-m100115228/ Thu, 11 Sep 2025 04:00:00 +0000 https://staging.mrqe.com/movie/homeland-iraq-year-zero-m100115228/ Everyday life of ordinary Iraqi families before and after the start of the Iraq War in 2003.

]]> https://mrqe.com/movie/bitter-bread-m100142829/ Thu, 11 Sep 2025 04:00:00 +0000 https://staging.mrqe.com/movie/bitter-bread-m100142829/ Among the countless Syrian citizens who have fled their country, about one-and-a-half-million have relocated to neighboring Lebanon. In this patient, heart-rending portrait, Iraqi-born filmmaker Abbas Fahdel, director of the epic Homeland (Iraq Year Zero), settles in with a community of refugees living in a tent camp in Lebanons Beqaa Valley, most of them children.

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