Mec Film
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 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
SOLOMON'S STONE
by Ramzi Maqdisi was invited to the Palestine Film and Arts Festival Zurich (Switzerland) in August.
DRY HOT SUMMERS by Sherif Elbedary
FREE RANGE by Bass Bréche and
ON A MONDAY by Tamer El Said
show throughout August online at Shasha Movies in the program Comedy and Political Satire.
AS ABOVE, SO BELOW and BIRDS OF SEPTEMBER
by Sarah Francis show in August at the Twin City Arab Film Festival in the USA.
ERASED,___ASCENT OF THE INVISIBLE
by Ghassan Halwani is part of the August Aflamouna program.
LIKE TWENTY IMPOSSIBLES by Annemarie Jacir and
NATION ESTATE by Larissa Sansour
show on August 21st, 2021 in Cologne at the event Bethlehem between Art and Resistance.
MY NAME IS NOT ALI
Viola Shafik's anti-biography of El Hedi Ben Salem is showing in August at the online edition of the North African Queer Film Festival.
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
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
NEW! 1982 Nineteen Eighty-Two
Oualid Mouaness' multi-award winning feature opens in German cinemas on November, 4th, 2021.
WAJIB
by Annmarie Jacir shows on August 12th in the Arab Cultural House - The Divan in Berlin (Open Air).
