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They are traveling on a rickety wagon, a crier and a storyteller with their wonder box. The view is sold into the peep-box stage, and the peep-box looks back: into the laughing faces of the young audience, who follow the story of Emperor Kanga Mussa on his golden pilgrimage with wide eyes. Accompanied by Gheorghe Zamfir's enchanting music and Attila Hörbiger's concise voice, a mixture of fairy tales and travel pictures unfolds, taking the audience to foreign and mystical places such as Timbuktu or Djenné, where the large mosque by architect Hagmüller is prominently featured.

A documentary that traces the path of Muslim scholar and political theorist Muhammad Asad, which led to his conversion to Islam.

A journey of Hajj pilgrimage from a small village in Palembang to Saudi Arabia. This film was made by using hidden camera.

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A look at the roots of the historic music scene in L.A.'s Laurel Canyon featuring the music of iconic music groups such as The Byrds, The Beach Boys, Buffalo Springfield, and The Mamas and the Papas.

The small town of Paris, Australia deliberately causes car accidents, then sells/salvages all valuables from the wrecks as a means of economy.

On November 20, 1979 at 5:30 in the morning, hundreds of armed men take over the Grand Mosque of Mecca, transforming the holiest shrine of Islam into a fortress and a trap for almost 100,000 pilgrims inside. This was the beginning of the siege of Mecca…

A tribute to the controversial black activist and leader of the struggle for black liberation. He hit bottom during his imprisonment in the '50s, he became a Black Muslim and then a leader in the Nation of Islam. His assassination in 1965 left a legacy of self-determination and racial pride.

A family’s story, typically crazy and exceptional at the same time. A film about home and exile, parents, grandparents, brothers and sisters and all the other relatives, close and distant, in an extended Persian family. Some of them emigrated to Europe or America, though the majority has stayed in Iran. Regardless of all the danger involved, they secretly meet after 20 years at a place which won’t raise suspicion among the Iranian authorities: Mecca. They come from America, Sweden, Austria and Iran to laugh, argue, cook and celebrate. This is accompanied by an excessive amount of hugging and kissing, and also a clash between Muslim and Western cultures.

In this affecting urban drama, down-and-out single dad Derek finds himself torn between his son's mother, Tasha, and former high school classmate Amour. Life spins out of control for Derek after he loses his job, but everything changes when he bumps into pretty Amour -- and ends up in love. Will the secret that she's harboring destroy their relationship and send Derek back to Tasha?

Albert and Barbara are looking for love online. When they run into each other, they both decide to pretend to be someone else. For their first meeting in real life, they send their surrogates.

In a world where the technology exists to hack into peoples’ memories, a traditional housewife colludes with her close friend to expose her husband, who she suspects is unfaithful. A film about love, betrayal and technology.

Tv series After their father died, Toutou is trying to con his half brother Hafnaoui out of his legal rights to heritage.

Olfa a young Tunisian researcher in psychology graduated from the French University of Paris with honorable mention, rejects all tempting offers to sell her thesis and strives to implement it in Tunisia, this thesis aims to eliminate terrorism by illegally recruiting a terrorist Marwen in covert operations.

Prince Akeem Joffer is set to become King of Zamunda when he discovers he has a son he never knew about in America – a street savvy Queens native named Lavelle. Honoring his royal father's dying wish to groom this son as the crown prince, Akeem and Semmi set off to America once again.

A wife gives birth to sextuplets, forcing the husband to sell three of their children due to poverty. When the wife finds out, she decides to leave her husband and travel abroad and many conflicts arise between siblings in the future.

The events revolve around Akram, who receives an invitation to attend a masquerade party. He decides to wear police uniforms, which causes him to suffer a crisis as a police officer, while looking for a particular file.

Arani - The fire inside

A university girl living in a village flees from her stepfather's constant harassment to Cairo to work in an advertising agency, and later discovers that they are exploiting the girls who work there to achieve personal interests with adults.

The portrait of eight young protagonists that have to deal with everyday female issues and those still to come. Eight different personalities confront each other and learn many lessons from their encounters. What keeps them united is the shadow of the night, intimate and mysterious, and the magical and invisible bond which unites all women.

Aziza and her husband Abdullah are both day laborers who work on various farms. When Aziza is brutally raped by a guard while she is picking potatoes in a field, she tries to hide the pregnancy and plans to kill the baby once it is born.

A married couple ends up working at the same company where the wife is a general director. This arouses the suspicion of their co-workers who do not know they are married.

A family inherits their father's drug business which leads to their undoing.

As America's stock of athletic young men is depleted during World War II, a professional all-female baseball league springs up in the Midwest, funded by publicity-hungry candy maker Walter Harvey. Competitive sisters Dottie Hinson and Kit Keller spar with each other, scout Ernie Capadino and grumpy has-been coach Jimmy Dugan on their way to fame.

A trio of female soul singers cross over to the pop charts in the early 1960s, facing their own personal struggles along the way.

During a visit to New York from Egypt, Mark, a 32-year-old Orthodox Christian, decides to lose his virginity, facing all the cultural and religious restrictions that have shaped his character. After a failed blind date, Mark is persuaded by his friends to seek something other than a soul mate. Their solution? A prostitute.

Scientists Andrea and Sacha go door to door, delivering Lottery results to unsuspecting citizens. Andrea believes they are saving the Earth, but after encountering an unhinged woman, she'll question everything about their mission.

The 'Koways' Family may seem like a model for the normal family, but it is far from normal, as it unfolds through a series of comedy situations.

A broke ass dad steals the Necronomicon Demonto, thinking he can time-travel through trauma. Instead, he opens a hellhole literally. This ain’t some Hollywood horror. This is Evil Dead if it happened in your neighbor’s backyard. The book eats souls. Turns people into flesh-hungry freaks. Blood everywhere. No heroes. No hope. And stuck in the middle? Maira his daughter with nothing but a chainsaw and a death prophecy stamped on her back. She’s not fighting to win. She’s fighting not to die last.

A documentary that monitors the unique relationship between writer Mekkawy Saeed and Downtown Cairo, which resulted in a number of famous, valuable literary works.

A shy guy silently falls in love with his straight forward coworker girl. They need to get the work done at the advertisement agency. What happens next to these organisms?