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- Academy Award-winning film-maker Oliver Stone interviews Russian president Vladimir Putin about divisive issues related to U.S.-Russia relations.
- Time is Money: In high frequency trading the fastest data network makes the deal. Computers trade against computers solely committed to the logic of their algorithms. Real life traders have long left the playing field to the more efficient money bots, leaving behind an uncontrollable financial market in which speculating on crisis is the safest bet and investments have exceeded all realistic dimensions. It all began in the casinos of Las Vegas.
- Greece is experiencing conditions in post-war history that no European thought would face again. Homeless people, soup kitchens, unemployment, poverty, violent conflicts and the rise of the extreme-right. The dream of prosperity has turned into a nightmare and the political scene of the last four decades is crumbling. Yorgos Avgeropoulos urgently turns his camera towards his homeland. He records the development of the crisis from its early stage, while tracing its impact on the lives of people. He witnesses popular protests in the streets, the development of solidarity movements as well as the rise of fascism, while at the same time he seeks answers from Greece's most significant political personalities, insiders, analysts and key decision makers from the international political scene.
- Israel under the Dome investigates the security measures taken by the Israeli government to protect its citizens from rockets/missiles fired from the Palestinian opposition. It questions the effectiveness of the Iron Dome that the Israeli government claims is a solid defence yet civilian accounts as well as specialist researchers beg to differ. Uncovering the remains of fired rockets in towns and settlements, the film discusses the discrepancies between government security statements and the reality of the situation.
- Noon Films has recently finished a three-year production of an investigative documentary into the crash of Flight 990 bound for Cairo Egypt from New York in 1999. Since the event, there has been a lot of controversy over what happened and the FBI investigation eventually ruled that it was pilot suicide. The documentary stems from secret documents and exclusive recordings, revealed for the first time to the public, of the plane's black box, uncovering the final movements of crew members whilst the aircraft was plummeting from its cruising altitude. It also includes interviews with former officials that led the investigations at the time, aviation experts and eyewitnesses. The film seeks to factually arrive at the causes of the Boeing 767 air crash and to assess the credibility of the claim that the plane's captain was responsible for the disaster that cost the lives of 217 passengers including 33 Egyptian military personnel. It also sheds light on the manner in which the Egyptian authorities dealt with the US-led investigation.
- In Passport to Freedom, Arab nationals from Syria, Iraq, and Egypt describe what led them either to flee their country as refugees or go abroad to set up a new life - and, in the process, get dual nationality and a second passport. The 2011 revolutions sparked an increase in the numbers of emigrants, wanting to escape political instability and economic uncertainty in several Arab countries.
- Escape to Death is a captivating documentary film delving into the lives of maids in Lebanon and the sad reality that is a rise in maid suicides. This film focuses on the legal proceedings surrounding the suicides as well as dealing with employer/sponsor complaints against the maids. Interviewing maids who have personally experienced sexual harassment and torture at the hands of their employers, we question whether all reported maid suicides are actually suicides or are they murder?.
- The film "Searching for Freedom: The Holy Land Foundation" is a two part documentary focussing on the story of the Holy Land Foundation, established in the late 80s by three Americans from Palestinian origin, Shukri Abu Baker, Ghassan Elashi and Mohammad El-Mezain. The foundation aimed to supply humanitarian aid to the Palestinians in Palestine and countries hosting Palestinian refugees, it later became the largest charity association in the US to distribute humanitarian aid to Palestinians. After 9/11, the former US President George W. Bush issued a decision to shut down the Holy Land Foundation and freeze its assets. In 2007 the Holy Land Foundation trials began, where five of its members were charged with funding terrorism and sending money to Hamas, a blacklisted political group in the US. A second trial for the Holy Land Foundation members took place in 2008, which issued the convictions of five members of the Foundation and their sentencing of 65 years imprisonment. The film looks at the new evidence arising and the secret witnesses who came from the Israeli Occupation State to provide testimonies for the second trial. This in itself was considered a precedent in the history of the American Justice System, talking about the mysterious circumstances experienced by the Court. The film highlights the difficult conditions experienced by the members of the Holy Land Foundation, their family, friends and the support they found in their communities.
- A documentary about the scorpion prison 992, which is a very a guarded prison which many stories took place.
- In Tunis, Gilbert Nakache, alias Papi, 80-year-old writer and communist activist, who suffered from a stroke, tells himself all day long the story of his life, which he wrote in prison on a pack of cigarettes, mixing tragedy and comic. In Brussels, his 25-year-old son Slim uses theater to try to settle scores with his father's time.
- Behind the Locked Doors is an investigative documentary that looks into the fraudulent and risky nature of a number of pharmacological studies and experiments that take place in Jordan and Egypt. It looks into the story of a chemistry professor involved in the manufacturing of drugs, which are sold online, under illegal and unsuitable conditions. Following the health of a volunteer, the film focusses on the discrepancies between medical drugs certified as effective by pharmacological reports when in actual fact they are not. With the help of a specialist analysis team in a medical analyst centre in the US, we look at the efficacy of a treatment medication for Hepatitis C, a widespread drug in Egypt, and prove that levels of the active substance are in fact very low, corroborating the many complaints this drug has received by its users.
- A new global phenomenon: over-equipped police facing furious, defenseless crowds brandishing their cell phones to record everything. The war of images on social media further polarizes police and demonstrators.
- Propaganda film for peace. Feature length documentary about radical political protest in the 60s and its relevance to today.
- Orly Fernandez manages and lives at a 24-hr funeral parlor in Manila. His relationships with clients and the journalists he meets color the empathy and contempt he holds for Philippine drug war victims who, like him, struggle to survive.
- The book "my word for the fools" Written by Mohammed Jalal Kishk in late 80s to document and describe the events that prevailed in the cultural and political life in Egypt at that time. With a shocking and contrasting view of the history of the July Revolution, the book is qualified to be described by some as a revolution against the revolution because it has obvious stabs in events that have always been a source of pride for the Egyptians. But the book assumed that the revolution was no more than an American plan by Gamal Abdel Nasser and his comrades.
- The journey of the founders of the Free Gaza Movement and the 2008 breach of the Israeli siege on Gaza waters documented from conception in Greece to journey's end in Palestine.
- Despite working as a tax collector for the East India Company in India in 1799, the convictions of the Muslim diplomat and scholar Abu Taleb Khan began to waver towards Britain due to a journey to London where he rediscovers himself.
- Adventures of a journey led by Omani diplomat Ahmad Al Ka'abi, aiming to establish the first diplomatic relations between the Arab world and the United States in the mid-19th century, causing a political storm within the U.S. Congress.
- Hidden War explores the ongoing confrontation between pro-Palestinian and Zionist organisations. It looks at the fight that manifests itself in different fields and communities across Europe. It investigates the goals of a number of organisations - The Bacon Foundation - trying to shut down pro-Palestinian activist groups and institutions. The film also follows the efforts of the Boycott Divestment and Sanctions group as they try to raise awareness of boycotting large corporate pro-Israeli companies, whose profits directly contribute to the establishment, building and maintenance of illegal Israeli settlements in Palestine. The film also investigates the story of Sheikh Raed Salah, who was deported from Britain during his visit in 2011 and was accused of Semitism. Along with his supporters, they entered into a fierce judicial trial against the interior ministry who was backed a leading pro-Israeli organisation in Britain.
- Trapped in Yemen looks at the plight of Somali refugees in Yemen. Officially there are over a quarter of a million Somalis in Yemeni territories however human rights organisations have discussed numbers as big as one million spread over Yemen. The film looks at the tragedy of their flight from Somalia due to economical and political turmoil that has made life there impossible and the life threatening journey they are forced to take across the sea in search of security. It also looks at the dangers of falling into the hands of smugglers, their struggle to stay safe and make a living as well as move across the Gulf in hopes of seeking a peaceful life.
- The Expats series is about Arab individuals who were born in the Arab world but due to tough circumstances be it poverty or just seeking a better life, they have moved abroad and have become successful individuals in those respective countries. Episodes include surgeons, musicians, physicists, engineers and economists. Filming for episodes has taken place across the world from the US, Singapore, Ivory Coast and Holland.
- A documentary episode of "Out of Text" deals with the movie "The Innocent" which was directed in 1986 by the Egyptian director Atef Al-Tayeb, who is subjected to repression and violation of human freedom. The authorities intervened to amputate many scenes of it, and he has to tighten and prevent in Egypt and the Arab world.
- My Journey to Hajj is a two part documentary film that follows a variety of individuals from different backgrounds and nationalities on their Hajj pilgrimage. Filming the characters from when they receive the news that they have acquired their Hajj visa, to seeing the Ka'bah for the first time and performing numerous Hajj rituals, this film captures a spiritual and emotional account of a once in a lifetime journey.