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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Services of free-lance author, curator and speaker Irit Neidhardt (owner of mec film) in the field of Cinema and the Arab World
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
PANOPTIC
by Rana Eid is invited to the Rewire 2025 Festival in Den Haag (The Netherlands) in early April 2025.
IN THE FUTURE THEY ATE FROM THE FINEST PORCELAIN
by Larissa Sansour and Soren Lind shows on 11.4.2025 at Lieu Dit in Clermont Ferrand (France).
ERASED,___ASCENT OF THE INVISIBLE
by Ghassan Halwani is part of the program of the MENA Prison Forum in Berlin (Germany) on 3rd April 2025 and in Atlas Cinema in London (UK) on 18th May 2025.
AS ABOVE SO BELOW
by Sarah Francis is showing online at the Labocine May 2025 program titled COSMOVISION.
LARISSA SANSOUR's SCI-FI TRILOGY
is showing in anorak Berlin on May, 9th 2025.
NATION ESTATE
by Larissa Sansour shows in Geneva on 21st May 2025.
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 NIGHT
by Mohamad Malas is shown at the Peace & Justice Center in Albuquerque, New Mexico (USA) on April 19th, 2025.
The Cinema of Muhammad Malas. Visions of a Syrian Auteur
This book by Samirah Alkassim and Nezar Andary provides an in-depth and intimate study of the cinema of Muhammad Malas. Archival images run through the chapters of this book which combines insightful interviews with excerpts from Malas’s literary works and critical explorations of his cinematic style and thematic concerns. The book concludes with Malas’s own words, sharing the treatment of his film project Cinema al-Dunya. 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
FROM GROUND ZERO
the short film compilation from Gaza shows on 13.4.2025 at UTOPIA Kiosk in Stuttgart, on 15.4.2025 at k18 in Berlin, 22.04.2025 Off-Broadway Cologne, 23.04.2025 ACUD Kino Berlin (with engl ST), 29.04.2025 at Lichtblick Kino Berlin (with engl. ST and discussion), 14.5.2025 RAUM im Atelierhaus Ottersberg and on 26.5.2025 at Universum in Braunschweig.
