Mec Film
Films by Arab directors
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mec film is an international distribution and sales company for films by Arab directors.
- The films in the International Catalogue vary in length and genre and can be booked by cinemas, festivals, cultural and educational institutions or social centres. The films all have English subtitles, sometimes we can provide translation in additional languages.
- mec film is serving as agent to the films of renown Syrian film-maker Mohamad Malas. Together with Dunia Film in Damascus we make copies available or connect you to the distributor for your territory.
- The movies in the German Catalogue are distributed in cinemas in Germany and are subtitled in German, they are all feature length.
- Many titles from the catalogue can be watched online at the mec film channel at our VOD partner sooner. Those who prefer to hold a DVD in their hand find most of the titles from this catalogue as well as selected additional films from the Arab World in our DVD-shop.
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International Catalogue
In this catalogue you find short and feature length films with English subtitles, sometimes we can provide additional languages. Most films are available in digital formats. more
ERASED,___ASCENT OF THE INVISIBLE
by Ghassan Halwani wins in May the Grand Prize of the International Competition of the Taiwan International Documentary Festival.In June the film is presented in the program of Liangjie Culture Media in Shanghai (China).
AS ABOVE, SO BELOW
shows Sarah Francis at the 2nd Arab Women's Film Festival in Brazil in mid-May and at the Labocine LIVE Series.
IN VITRO
by Larissa Sansour and Soren Lind is showing 15. Mai 2021 in the cooltXchange programme in England and Serbia, the Mizna Arab Film Festival (USA), the Arab Women's Film Festival Brazil and, in the end of May/early June, at Ciné Palestine in Paris (France).
Sci-Fi TRILOGY
Larissa Sansour's Sci-Fi Trilogy shows in mid-May at the 2nd Arab Women's Film Festival in Brazil as well as at the Mizna Arab Film Festival (USA).
COUNTING TILES
Cynthia Choucair's documentary about the situation in Lesbos and her own childhood memories of displacement shows in May in the Asian Vision Competition of the Taiwan International Documentary Festival.
BIRDS OF SEPTEMBER
Sarah Francis unusual portrait of Beirut is part of a Lebanese online film program at Void in Northern Ireland in May.
DVD of the Month
Counting Tiles by Cynthia Choucair, buy the DVD or view online
The Cinema of Mohamad Malas
mec film is serving as agent to the films of renown Syrian film-maker Mohamad Malas. Together with Dunia Film in Damascus we make copies available or connect you to the distributor for your territory. more
The Cinema of Muhammad Malas. Visions of a Syrian Auteur
A monogragraph about Mohamad Malas' work is forthcoming at palgrave macmillan. Authors Samirah Alkassim and Nezar Andary's book provides an in-depth and intimate study of the cinema of Muhammad Malas. read more
German Catalogue
The films in the German Catalogue are licensed for German theatrical and institutional release and have German subtitles. The movies are shown in the regular art-house more
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