Mec Film

Distributing films by Arab directors

Welcome to mec film!

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 in Europe at the mec film channel at our VOD partner sooner and in Arab countries at istikana. 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.
Universities can acquire educational rights for all titles, please contact us directly via mail.

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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

Climate Care Festival

IN VITRO
by Larissa Sansour and Soren Lind is invited to the Climate Care Festival in Berlin at the end of September.

20 years to the invasion of Iraq

LEAVING BAGHDAD
Koutaiba al-Janabi's 2010 feature fiction is worth a re-vision 20 years after the invasion of Iraq.Leaving Baghdad provides a stunningly fresh take on the documentary form, mixing together a powerful character study of a man slipping into paranoia with a potent indictment on the trauma inflicted by Saddam Hussein's reign. (Raindance Film Festival)
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transcultural

STANDSTILL
Majdi El Omari is waving the Palestinian and the Mohawk (Kanienkehaka people) experiences of uprooting into a film of reflection and solidarity.

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

film classic

DREAMS OF THE CITY
show in September at Aflamuna.online.

documentary classic

THE DREAM
Schwules Museum Berlin is showing the medium-length documentary by Mohamad Malas in its exhibition _Gap: Having Time. Counting Time. Filling Time from June 22 to September 18, 2023
the DVD (available with home video or with institutional rights)

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

Palestinian cinema

WAJIB
by Annemarie Jacir shows at Saalbau-Kino in Heppenheim on 1st October 2023.