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 our partners MMedia in Beirut or at the mec film channel at sooner in Berlin. A selection of documentaries is available for online viewing in the mec film collection at minaa in Amman. 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
IN VITRO
by Larissa Sansour and Soren Lind wins the Theme-Sensitive Award at the Imagine Science Festival New York (USA). The film shows in October online online at the Boston Palestine Film Festival (USA) and offline the film can be watched at Kino der Kunst in Munich and Nuernberg (Germany) as well as at the Institut du Monde Arabe and the Festival Ciné Palestine, both in Paris (France).
AS ABOVE, SO BELOW
by Sarah Francis shows in October at the Imagine Science Film Festival in New York (USA), the Pacific Meridian International Film Festival Vladivostok (Russia), the International Film Festival Sao Paolo (Brazil) and the Latin Arab Film Festival in Buenos Aires (Argentina).
BIRDS OF SEPTEMBER
Sarah Francis' extraordinary city portrait of Beirut is showing on October 9th and 10th, 2020 online at the Between Women Filmmakers Caravan, a festival in Cairo (Egypt).
PANOPTIC
Rana Eid's acoustic portrait of Beirut will be streamed worldwide at the 12th and 13th of October 2020 at the Between Women Filmmakers Caravan in Cairo (Egypt).
NATION ESTATE
by Larissa Sansour is invited in October to the Festival Film Femmes Mediterranées in Marseille (France).
ERASED,___ASCENT OF THE INVISIBLE
the multi-awarded film by Ghassan Halwani shows in October offline in the program of the Institut du Monde Arabe in Paris (France).
DVD of the month
Erased,___Ascent of the Invisible by Ghassan Halwani.
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
THE DREAM (al-Manam)
In 1991 Mohamad Malas published his diary about the shooting of “The Dream” including those dreams which were not included into the documentary under the title al-Manam. Mufakirat Filim at Dar al-Adab in Beirut. In 2016 the English translation, The Dream. A Diary of the Film, was released by the American University in Cairo Press. The DVD is availabe at mecfilm-shop.com.
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
WAJIB
by Annmarie Jacir was theatrically released by mec film in Germany in autumn 2019. The next screening is:
08.07.2020 Nürnberg (Mediterranean Film Days)
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