AFRICAN/ MIDDLE EASTERN/ MEDITERRANEAN CINEMA ON DVD
NEW RELEASES 2020-21
CAPERNAUM (15) 2018 LEBANON LABAKI, NADINE DVD £15.99 BLU RAY - £19.99
Winner of the Grand Jury Prize at the Cannes Film Festival, the film follows a 12-year-old Lebanese boy, Zain, living on the streets caring for a baby. After serving a prison sentence, Zain sues his parents for the "crime" of giving him life.
THE CAKEMAKER (15) 2017 ISRAEL GRAZIER, OFIR RAUL £15.99
German baker Thomas starts a relationship with Oren, a married Israeli businessman. However when Oren suddenly dies, Thomas travels to Israel to meet Oren wife, Anat and gets a job working in her own café. Keeping his relationship with Oren a secret, Thomas becomes more and more involved in Anat's life.
FOXTROT (15) 2017 ISRAEL MAOZ, SAMUEL £15.99
After the death of their soldier son, the grieving parents set out to the desolate checkpoint where he died, hoping to find out what happened to him and what his life was like in his last days.
GHOST HUNTING 2017 PALESTINE, ANDONI, RAED DVD £12.99 BLU RAY £17.99
Palestinian filmmaker Raed Andoni’s powerful feature is a hybrid of documentary, fiction and experimental film, which gathers together a group of survivors from Israel’s infamous Al-Moscobiya prison. Together they recreate the physical space of the jail, and their experiences of incarceration and torture
THE HUNT FOR VLAD THE IMPALER (15) 2018 TURKEY KAYA, OSMAN £12.99
Set in the 15th century, the film follows a group of Ottoman soldiers, led by Gokkurt , as they try to defeat Vlad Tepes and put an end to his evil reign.
MANDABI (PG) 1966 SENEGAL SEMBENE, OUSMANE LANGUAGE WOLOF AND FRENCH DVD - £19.99 BLU RAY - £21.99
When Ibrahim Dieng, who lives in Dakar with his two wives and seven children, receives a substantial money order from his nephew in Paris, his life is thrown into disarray as he tackles bureaucracy, desperate neighbours and family members, mounting debt and corruption.
MOFFIE (18) 2019 SOUTH.AFRICA DVD - £19.99 BLU RAY - £22.99
In 1981, 18-year-old gay soldier, Nicholas, is sent to fight in the border war with communist Angola. Here he has to come terms with his sexuality and adapt to life in the barracks.
NURI BILGE CEYLAN: THE COMPLETE FILMS (15) TURKEY BLU RAY ONLY £68.99
Features the following films - Koza (Short film, 1995), Kasaba (1998), Clouds of May (2000), Uzak (2002), Climates (2006), Three Monkeys (2008), Once Upon a Time in Anatolia (2011), Winter Sleep (2014) & The Wild Pear Tree (2018).
PAPICHA (15) 2020 ALGERIA MEDDOUR, MOUNIA IN FRENCH £15.99
Talented young student, Papicha, struggles against the rise of radical Islamism in 1990s Algeria. Papicha spends her time having nights out with friends and designing her own fashion line. However, all that is about to change when Islamic insurgents attempt to make compulsory the veiling of women.
As Papicha's freedoms become more and more restricted, she must either choose to resist the regime or conform to the oppressive rules to keep she and her friends safe.
THE PERFECT CANDIDATE (PG) 2019 SAUDI ARABIA AL-MANSOUR, HAIFAA £13.99
Dr Maryam Alsafan stands in the local municipal election. Her campaign goes viral and Maryam decides to embrace her new-found position as a champion of her community and women's rights in the kingdom.
WAJIB (15) 2017 PALESTINE JACIR, ANNEMARIE £15.99
A Palestinian man reunites with his estranged son during the preparation for his daughter's wedding. However old tensions begin to resurface between the pair as they await confirmation of whether Shadi's mother, who has moved to America, will be able to attend.
WILD PEAR TREE (15) 2018 TURKEY CEYLAN, NURI BILGE DVD - £13.99 BLU RAY - £19.99
Literature graduate Sinan returns home to his rural village to considers his future, should he become a teacher like his father or try to raise the money to get the book published he has written. As he goes about rasing the money he becomes disenchanted with his father and the rural lifestyle.
AFRICA DVDS
A SCREAMING MAN (PG) 2010 CHAD HAROUN, MAHAMAT-SALEH £15.99
Adam is a one-time swimming champion who now, in his mid-fifties, works as swimming pool manager at a hotel. His life is turned upside down when the hotel is taken over by new owners who make Adam redundant and give the job to his son Abdel
ABOUNA (PG) CHAD 2002 HARBOUN, MAHAMAT-SALEH £19.99
Two brothers undertake a momentous journey to find their father
AMANDLA - A REVOLUTION IN FOUR PART HARMONY (12) SOUTH AFRICA 2002 HIRSCH, LEE £22.99
Film looks at how music played a role in the South African struggle.
THE ATHLETE (PG) 2009 FRANKEL, D/LAKEW, R £15.99
Biographical feature drama about Ethiopian sportsman Abebe Bikila. who becomes a world sensation when he runs barefoot to win Olympic gold in the Rome marathon in 1960, and, four years later in Tokyo, becomes the first person ever to win consecutive Olympic gold medals in the marathon. Soon after this, however, a car accident leaves him paralysed from the waist down and unable to walk.
BAMAKO (PG) MALI 2006 SISSAKO, ABDERRAHMANE IN FRENCH £19.99
African civil society spokesmen have taken proceedings against the World Bank and the IMF whom they blame for Africa’s woes in this blend of drama and documentary.
BOROM SARRET/LA NOIRE DE/BLACK GIRL (15) 1916 SENEGAL SEMBENE, OUSMANE IN FRENCH £19.99
La noire de./Black Girl' (1966) follows young Senegalese nanny with high-hopes who travels to the Antibes with her white employers. Upon arrival in France, her relationship with her employers deteriorates as they subjugate her to the role of an all-purpose housemaid.
The short 'Sarret' (1969) follows a day in the life of a poor horse cart driver in Dakar.
Sembène's directional debut, the short Borom Sarret, was the first ever indigenous black African film. An allegorical tale exploring poverty and inequality, it follows the difficult life of a hard-up cart driver in Dakar.
CATCH A FIRE (12) SOUTH AFRICA 2006 NOYCE, PHILLIP £19.99
A middle-class black South African is radicalised after his family is wrongly accused of terrorism.
CUBA: AN AFRICAN ODYSSEY (E) 2007 TAHRI, JIHAN EL £24.99
From 1961 to 1991, Africa was the battleground for a war between four competing and opposing interests: the Soviet Union which sought to extend its influence; the U.S. who were intent on capturing Africa's natural resources; former European colonial empires; and young African nations trying to defend their newly-won independence. Called on to help these new nations in their revolutionary struggle, Cuba played a central, yet little known, role in supporting African national liberation.
DARATT (15) 2006 CHAD HAROUN, MAHAMAT-SALEH IN FRENCH £19.99
After a 41 year civil war, the government grants an amnesty to war criminals. Outraged by the news, Gumar Abatcha orders his 16 year old grandson, Atim, to trace the man who killed his father and to execute him.
DIFRET (12A) 2014 ETHIOPIA MEHARI, ZERESENAY IN AMHARIC £17.99
Based on a true story of a 14-year-old girl who is kidnapped to marry but kills her intended husband. In the ensuing court case she argues self-defence, but will this be accepted in by the court when abduction into marriage is a tradition in the country.
ENDURANCE (U) 1999 WOODHEAD, L/GREENSPAN, B
Dramatisation of the life of the Ethiopian long distance runner, Haile Gebrselassie. Gebrselassie has won two Olympic gold medals, numerous marathons and broken over 27 world records over the course of a glittering career. His achievements are made all the more remarkable by his humble beginnings.
FINAL SOLUTION (TBA) 2001 SOUTH AFRICA KRUSEN, CRISTOBAL £17.99
South African drama follows a young white man who has grown up believing blacks to be an inferior race. He decides he must help rid his country of its native Africans but gradually realises he is in the wrong with the help of college student Celeste.
THE FIRST GRADER (12) 2010 CHADWICK, JUSTIN £17.99
Heartwarming tale based on a true story. Set in a remote mountain village in Kenya, the film tells the story of 84-year-old former Mau Mau freedom fighter Maruge (Oliver Litondo) and his determination to learn how to read and write.
GOODBYE BAFANA (15) SOUTH AFRICA 2007 AUGUST, BILLE £15.99
True story of a white South African racist whose life was profoundly altered when he guarded Nelson Mandela for twenty years.
HIJACK STORIES (15) 2000 SOUTH AFRICA SCHMITZ, OLIVER £15.99
Two old Soweto school friends, one a wealthy actor the other a gangster paths cross again as the actor researches a part for a TV role.
I AM NOT A WITCH (12A) 2017 ZAMBIA RUNGANO, NYONI £12.99
This Zambian film contains elements of magical realist drama, deadpan satire and feminist allegory. Nine-year-old Zambian Shula is exiled to a witch camp after one of her fellow villagers claims she is a witch. At the camp a local official decides she is his little witch and parades her around local TV stations, lining his pockets with any fees.
MAMA AFRICA (U) 2011 £15.99
Documentary on the life of the South African singer, Miriam Makeba. Makeba, known affectionately as Mama Africa, helped popularise African music worldwide and achieved particular success in America, winning a Grammy Award .
MANDABI (PG) 1966 SENEGAL SEMBENE, OUSMANE LANGUAGE WOLOF AND FRENCH DVD - £19.99 BLU RAY - £21.99
When Ibrahim Dieng, who lives in Dakar with his two wives and seven children, receives a substantial money order from his nephew in Paris, his life is thrown into disarray as he tackles bureaucracy, desperate neighbours and family members, mounting debt and corruption.
MOFFIE (18) 2019 SOUTH.AFRICA DVD - £19.99 BLU RAY - £22.99
In 1981, 18-year-old gay soldier, Nicholas, is sent to fight in the border war with communist Angola. Here he has to come terms with his sexuality and adapt to life in the barracks.
NELIO'S STORY (15) 1997 NORDLUND, SOLVEIG IN PORTUGUESE £15.99
Drama based on the novel 'Chronicler of the Winds' by Swedish crime writer Henning Mankell. In the Mozambique capital Maputo, a baker called Jose finds a street urchin lying wounded in the deserted theatre next to his bakery. It turns out that Nelio has lost his entire family in the civil war. Refusing medical treatment, the boy instead asks for sanctuary and proceeds to tell the terrible and eventful tale of his past.
NIGHT OF TRUTH (18) 2002 BURKINA FASO IN FRENCH FANTA REGINA NACRO £19.99
The film was conceived in memory of Fanta Nacro’s uncle, accused of inciting a coup, and who was murdered in a horrifically brutal way.
SISTERS IN LAW (12) 2006 CAMEROON LONGINOTTO, K / AYISI, F. £19.99
An award-winning film focusing on justice in the Muslim village of Kumba Town.
SKIN (12A) 2008 SOUTH AFRICA ANTHONY FABIAN £12.99
Drama based on the true story of Sandra Laing, a black girl born to two white Afrikaaner parents in South Africa during the apartheid era. A genetic throwback to the mixed blood of previous generations of her family, Sophie's skin colour causes problems for her bigoted father.
SLEEPWALKING LAND (12) 2007PRATA, TERESA IN PORTUGESE £15.99
In Teresa Prata's haunting drama, a lost boy embarks on a quest to find his missing parents in post-war Mozambique. After the desolation of the civil war during the 1990s, Muidinga finds himself alone. Discovering a diary beside a roadside corpse, he learns of a woman on a ship who is searching for her lost son.
SON OF MAN (12) 2006 SOUTH AFRICA DORNFORD-MAY, MARK £14.99
Life of Jesus and transposes it to contemporary southern Africa.
SOUNDS OF SAND (12) 2006 HANSEL, MARION £14.99
An African family sets out across the desert to find a new life.
TSOTSI (15) 2005 SOUTH AFRICA HOOD, GAVIN IN AFRIKAANS, ZULU £19.99
Oscar winning film about a young gang member whose life is changed when he steals a car and accidentally
kidnaps a baby.
TOWN OF RUNNERS (E) 2012 ROTHWELL, JERRY £14.99
Documentary telling the story of two young girls from a small town in rural Ethiopia as they attempt to run their way into a different life. Narrated by their friend Biruk, the film follows their highs and lows over three years as they try to become professional athletes. By depicting their struggle, the film gives an insight into the ambitions of young Ethiopians and the delicate balance they tread between tradition and the modern world.
VIVA RIVA (15) CONGO MUNGA, DJO IN FRENCH/ LINGALA £19.99
The debut feature of Congolese film maker in this explosive drama set in the backstreets of Kinshasa.
WAITING FOR HAPPINESS (U) MAURTANIA 2002 SISSAKO, ABDERRAHMANE £19.99
Poignant film about the conflict between progress and tradition.
WHITE MISCHIEF (15) 1987 UK RADFORD, MICHAEL £9.99
Adaptation of the book by James Fox, based on a true story, which portrays life in British Colonial Africa between the wars.
THE WORLD UNSEEN (12) 2007 SOUTH AFRICA SARIF, SHAMIM £19.99
Romantic drama set in South Africa in the early 1950s, the beginning of the apartheid era. Two very different women of Indian origin, timid housewife Miriam and the outspoken and headstrong Amina, meet and fall in love despite outrage and disapproval from those around them.
ALBANIAN/MACEDONIAN DVDS
BORDER POST (15) 2006 MACEDONIA GRLIC, RAJKO £12.99
Balkan comedy of errors, as a border guard invents a conflict in order to avoid facing the music from his wife.
DUST (18) 2001 MANCHEVSKI, MILCHO £12.99
An epic Western that spans centuries, countries and lifetimes. Luke travels alone to Europe and finds himself settling in Macedonia where he becomes a ruthless mercenary fighting with the local resistance against the Turks. However, the revolution takes on a personal face when he discovers that his brother Elijah has been hired as a gun by the enemy.
THE FORGIVENESS OF BLOOD (12A) 2011 ALBANIAN MARSTON, JOSHUA£15.99
Drama set in modern-day Albania about a teenager who is forced to quit school and take over her father's bread delivery service after a family disagreement with a neighbour escalates into a blood feud.
ARABIC/NORTH AFRICAN DVDS
AHLAAM (15) 2005 IRAQ DARADJI,MOHAMED AL £14.99
Set in a Baghdad psychiatric hospital destroyed during the American bombing in 2003, the film tells the story of a young doctor and two of the asylum's patients whose harrowing stories are told in flashback.
AZUR AND ASMAR-THE PRINCES' QUEST (U) 2006 ARABIC OCELOT, M. £15.99
Animated adventure tells the story of two boys brought up as brothers. Azur is the blonde, blued-eyed son of a noblewoman, and Asmar is the dark-haired, dark-eyed son of the nurse.
BORDER (12) 2013 SYRIA/ITALY CREMONINI, ALESSIO IN ARABIC £9.99
Independent drama, which casts first-time Syrian born actors Sara El Debuch and Dana Keilani, as two devout Muslims sister living in Syria and who are forced to flee to Turkey with the aid of a friend.
CAPERNAUM (15) 2018 LEBANON LABAKI, NADINE DVD £15.99 BLU RAY - £19.99
Winner of the Grand Jury Prize at the Cannes Film Festival, the film follows a 12-year-old Lebanese boy, Zain, living on the streets caring for a baby. After serving a prison sentence, Zain sues his parents for the "crime" of giving him life.
CARAMEL (PG) 2007 LEBANON LABAKI, NADINE £19.99
Comedy-drama about a group of women who meet in a Beirut beauty parlour.
CITY OF LIFE (15) 2009 UNITED ARAB EMIRATES MOSTAFA, ALI F ENGLISH / ARABIC / HINDI £12.99
First-time director Ali F. Mostafa helms this multi-narrative urban drama set in the United Arab Emirates city of Dubai. The film follows three main characters - young Emirati Faisal (Saoud Al Kaabi), who is struggling to find his identity in society, Indian-born taxi driver Basu (Sonu Sood), who dreams of becoming a Bollywood film star, and lonely Romanian ballet dancer turned air hostess Natalia Moldovan (Alexandra Maria Lara) - whose lives, among others, converge and collide in the ever-changing cultural melting pot of Dubai.
CLASH (15) 2016 EGYPT DIAB, MOHAMED DVD - £15.99 BLU RAY - £19.99
Set entirely in the back of a police van which is transferring demonstrators and journalists from different political and social backgrounds through the streets of Cairo while the city is in turmoil as the civil war unfolding around them. As they transverse the city the occupants of the van begin to clash as their political and religious beliefs become known.
FROM A TO B (12) 2014 UEA MOSTAFA, ALI F. £15.99
Comedy drama in which three estranged friends go on a road trip
from Abu Dhabi to Beirut in honour of their deceased friend and to rediscover their lost friendship.
INSYRIATED (15) 2017 SYRIA LEEUW, VAN PHILIPPE £12.99
Tense film about life in war torn Damascus, as a mother attempts to keep her family safe in their apartment as war rages outside and a sniper bullet threats anyone who ventures outside.
KELTOUMS DAUGHTER (12) 2002 ALGIERA CHAREF, MEHDI ARABIC/FRENCH £12.99
Woman returns to her place of birth in rural Algeria in an attempt to discover why her mother abandoned her.
THE LEBANESE ROCKET SOCIETY (PG) 2012 JOANA HADJITHOMAS, J/ JOREIGE, K. £17.99
Beirut-based documentary-makers Joana Hadjithomas and Khalil Joreige uncover the little known history of Lebanon's space programme.
PAPICHA (15) 2020 ALGERIA MEDDOUR, MOUNIA IN FRENCH £15.99
Talented young student, Papicha, struggles against the rise of radical Islamism in 1990s Algeria. Papicha spends her time having nights out with friends and designing her own fashion line. However, all that is about to change when Islamic insurgents attempt to make compulsory the veiling of women.
As Papicha's freedoms become more and more restricted, she must either choose to resist the regime or conform to the oppressive rules to keep she and her friends safe.
RATTLE THE CAGE (18) 2015 UEA MAJID AL ANSARI £19.99
Thriller set in the United Arab Emirates.
SON OF BABYLON (12) 2010 IRAQ MOHAMED AL DARADJI £15.99
Road movie drama set in battered post-war Iraq.
THE SOURCE/LA SOURCE DES FEMMES (15) 2011 ARABIC MIHAILEANU, RADU £15.99
'Battle of the sexes' comedy drama set in a remote North African village. The women who do all the work in the village while the menfolk lounge around in the shade drinking tea and playing cards. The newly-married Leila starts a mutiny among the women when she proposes that the women withhold sexual favours until something is done to improve the situation.
THE SQUARE (15) 2013 EGYPT NOUJAIM, JEHANE £17.99
Academy Award-nominated documentary following the events of the Egyptian Revolution.
THE STRING (15) 2009 TUNISIA ATTIA, MEHDI BEN £15.99
When his father dies, Malik returns home to Tunisia after living in France where he felt he could be openly gay. His mother is unaware of his sexuality until she finds him with another man. Shocked and angry she is unable to come to terms with the situation.
TRAMONTANE (U) 2016 LEBANON BOULGHOURJIAN, VATCHE £13.99
Blind singer Rabih Ralek finds out that his identity card and set sets off on a journey to discover his true identity. Rabih meets a variety of different characters and listens to the stories of their lives as he desperately searches for any fragment of truth about his own.
THEEB (15) 2014 UNITED ARAB EMIRATES NAJI ABU NOWAR £15.99
First World War adventure film set in the Ottoman province of Hejaz, where a young Bedouin orphans Theeb and his older brother embark on a perilous journey across the desert to take an English soldier and his Arabian guide to a well near an Ottoman train track.
UNDER THE BOMBS (15) 2007 LEBANON ARACTINGI, PHILIPPE £19.99
Set during the Lebanese-Israeli conflict of 2006 , a woman frantically searches for her lost child.
WADJDA (PG) 2012 SAUDI ARABIA AL-MANSOUR, HAIFAA
DVD - £17.99 BLU RAY - £23.99
Living within a conservative suburb of Riyadh, fun-loving eleven-year-old Wadjda (Waad Mohammed) has her heart set on a green bicycle so that she can beat the boys in their neighbourhood races. But when her mother forbids it, anticipating a reaction from a society that disapproves of women riding bicycles, an enterprising Wadjda decides to raise the money herself by entering a local Qur'an-reading competition that offers a cash prize.
THE WEDDING SONG (15) 2008 FRANCE ALBO, KARIN U IN ARABIC & FRENCH£15.99
Drama set during World War Two, following two women who try to maintain their friendship under difficult circumstances. Nour and Myriam, an Arab and a Jew who have been best pals since childhood, find their lives in turmoil as the Nazis gain control over Tunis.
WHEN I SAW YOU (12) 2012 JORDAN JACIR,ANNEMARIE £15.99
Coming-of-age drama traces the story of Tarek (Mahmoud Asfa), a young boy caught up in a Middle Eastern war who embarks on a journey of self-discovery.
WHERE DO WE GO NOW? (12) 2011 LEBANON LABAKI, NADINE £15.99
Lebanese comedy drama about a group of women who resort to unorthodox methods in a bid to ease religious tensions in their village.
WINTER OF DISCONTENT (15) 2012 EGYPT EL-BATOUT, IBRAHIM £15.99
Egyptian political drama set against the backdrop of the January 2011 revolution. Told in a series of flashbacks, the film highlights the troubles the Egyptian people were forced to deal with under President Mubarak's reign through the eyes of politically motivated whistleblower Amr (Amr Waked).
WEST BEIRUT (15) LEBANON 1998 DOUEIRI, ZIAD £15.99
Film about a teenager in war torn Beirut in 1975.
YACOUBIAN BUILDING (15) EGYPT 2006 HAMED, MARWAN £19.99
Adaptation of Dr Alaa Al Aswany’s novel which embodies every aspect of life in Cairo.
GREEK DVDS
A TOUCH OF SPICE (PG) 2003 GREECE BOULMETIS, TASSOS £19.99
Greek drama about a young boy growing up in Costantinopolis, whose grandfather, a culinary philosopher and mentor, teaches him that both food and life require a little spice to give them flavour. Fanis grows up to become an excellent cook and uses his cooking skills to spice up the lives of those around him. 35 years later he returns to his birthplace of Istanbul to reunite with his grandfather only to realise that he forgot to put a little bit of spice in his own life.
ALPS (15) 2011 GREECE LANTHIMOS, GIORGOS £15.99
Psychological drama about a self-formed group of therapists who impersonate the recently deceased to help their clients through the grieving process.
ATTENBERG (18) 2010 GREECE TSANGARI £15.99
Offbeat Greek coming-of-age drama.
BEEKEEPER (18) GREECE 1986 ANGELOPOULOS, THEO £15.99
Spyros, a schoolmaster of late middle-age who, like his father before him, is also a beekeeper. Disenchanted and unfulfilled by his life, Spyros takes leave of his wife and grown children to embark on a solitary journey in search of the emerging springtime flowers for his cherished beehives.
CHEVALIER (18) 2015 GREECE TSANGARI, ATHINA RACHEL £19.99
Greek comedy following six men who decide to play a game while on a fishing trip in the Aegean Sea. To play the game the men score each other on their abilities and achievements and the winner will be deemed 'the best of everything'.
DOGTOOTH (18) GREECE 2009 GIORGOS LANTHIMOS £15.99
Blackly comic Greek psychodrama. Mama and Papa have created a surreal self-styled utopia for their three children within their secluded compound walls around them.
THE DUST OF TIME (15) 2008 GREECE ANGELOPOULOS, THEO £19.99
Acclaimed Greek director s second installment of the trilogy that began with 2004 s The Weeping Meadow . An American film director of Greek ancestry is making a film that tells his story and that of his parents. It is an epic tale that unfolds in Italy, Germany, Russia, Kazakhstan, Canada and the US and journeys into the events of the latter half of the 20th Century.
FROM THE EDGE OF THE CITY (18) GIANNARIS, CONSTANTINE IN GREEK & RUSSIAN £16.99
Hard hitting film about a group of Pontian immigrants from the former USSR returning after centuries back to their Greek motherland.
KINETTA (15) 2005 GREECE LANTHIMOS, YORGOS £12.99
A local police detective of a run-down coastal town as he enlists the help of a photographer and a hotel maid to try and get to the bottom of a series of murders.
MISS VIOLENCE (18) 2013 GREECE AVRANAS, ALEXANDROS £17.99
On Angeliki’s eleventh birthday she jumps to her death. The family insists that it was nothing more than a tragic accident. What is the family hiding? What secrets did Angeliki take with her?
THE PIRATE (12) 2012 GREECE SMARAGDIS, YANNIS £15.99
Historical adventure based on the life of Ioannis Varvakis, a key figure in the Greek War of Independence.
SUNTAN (18) 2016 GREECE PAPADIMITROPOULOS, ARGYRIS DUAL FORMAT DVD/BLU RAY £15.99
Comedy drama about a middle-aged overweight doctor on a small Greek island who quickly becomes obsessed with youthful tourist Anna who visits his surgery.
THE THEO ANGELOPOULOS COLLECTION VOL 1 (4 DISCS) (15) £49.99
Contains the following films by Greece’s most celebrated filmmaker Reconstruction (1970) Days of ‘36 (1972) The Travelling Players (1975) and The Hunters (1977)
THE THEO ANGELOPOULOS COLLECTION VOL 2 (4 DISCS) (15) £49.99
Contains Alexander the Great (1980), Voyage to Cythera (1984), The Beekeeper (1986) and Landscape in the Mist (1988).
THE THEO ANGELOPOULOS COLLECTION VOL 3 (4 DISCS) (15) £49.99
Features 'Ulysses' Gaze' (1995), 'Eternity and a Day' (1998),'The Weeping Meadow' (2004) and 'The Dust of Time' (2008)
TRILOGY - THE WEEPING MEADOW (PG) 2003 GREECE ANGELOPOULOS, THEO £19.99
This is the first film of Theo Angelopoulos’ trilogy. The story starts in 1919 with some Greek
refugees from Odessa arriving somewhere near Thessaloniki.
UNDER THE STARS (15) 2001 GREECE GEORGIOU, CHRISTOS £12.99
Road trip drama set in the aftermath of Turkey's invasion of Cyprus in 1974. As a young man, Greek Cypriot Loukas survived the invasion, but he has never overcome his painful memories of it. Now, a quarter of a century later, he lives a reclusive life in the divided city of Nicosia on the border between the Turkish and Greek territories.
XENIA (15) 2014 GREECE KOUTRAS, PANOS H. £15.99
Gay 16 year-old Danny (Kostas Nikouli) leaves Crete to visit his older brother Odysseas (Nikos Gelia) in Athens and the pair embark on a cross-country road trip to find their estranged wealthy father, who abandoned them as infants.
ISRAELI/PALESTINIAN DVDS
A WORLD NOT OURS (E) 2012 FLEIFEL, MAHDI £14.99
Director Mahdi Fleifel spent much of his childhood in the Palestinian refugee camp
Ain el-Helweh. before moving to Denmark with his family, but has returned on many occasions. From a young age he has been capturing life at Ain el-Helweh by recording a video diary in which he talks to those who reside there including his friend Abu Eyad.
ATASH (12) PALESTINE/ISRAEL 2004 TAWFIK ABU WAEL ARABIC £19.99
Family, ruled by a tyrannical father, have their instinct for freedom awakened by
the building of a water pipeline.
BEAUFORT (15) 2007 ISRAEL CEDAR, JOSEPH £19.99
Award winning Israeli war film that tells the story of a young commander who is left with his troops to defend the
Twelfth Century crusader fort of Beaufort prior to Israel’s pull-out from Lebanon in 2000.
BROKEN WINGS (15) ISRAEL 2002 BERGMAN, NIR £19.99
Award winning family drama.
BUBBLE (15) 2006 ARABIC/HEBREW FOX, EYTAN £19.99
When three roommates living in Tel Aviv's hippest neighbourhood try to help one of their own connect with a Palestinian love interest, they are unprepared for how quickly the safe bubble they've been living in bursts.
THE CAKEMAKER (15) 2017 ISRAEL GRAZIER, OFIR RAUL £15.99
German baker Thomas starts a relationship with Oren, a married Israeli businessman. However when Oren suddenly dies, Thomas travels to Israel to meet Oren wife, Anat and gets a job working in her own café. Keeping his relationship with Oren a secret, Thomas becomes more and more involved in Anat's life.
CLOSE TO HOME (15) ISRAEL 2005 HAGAR, D / BILU, V £19.99
Two 18 year olds a thrown together as they are assigned the task of patrolling the streets of Jerusalem as part of their military service.
DIVINE INTERVENTION (15) PALASTINE 2002 SULEIMAN, ELIA £19.99
Spectacular fantasy about the conflict in the Middle East.
EYES WIDE OPEN (15) 2009 ISRAEL TABAKMAN, HAIM. £15.99
An ultra-orthodox Jew and father of four living in Jerusalem who takes over the family kosher butcher shop following the death of his father. His quiet, deeply religious world is turned upside down with the arrival of handsome young Yeshiva student Ezri, who comes to work in the shop and takes lodgings with Aaron's family.
FILL THE VOID (U) 2012 ISRAEL BURSHSTEIN, RAMA IN HEBREW
DVD - £15.99 BLU RAY - £19.99
When Esther (Renana Raz), the eldest daughter of an Orthodox Hassidic family, dies during the birth of her first child, plans for her younger sister Shira (Hadas Yaron)'s marriage are put on hold while the family grieve for their loss. Yochay (Yiftach Klein), the child's father, decides to leave Tel Aviv for Belgium to start a new life with another woman but Esther's mother is determined not to lose her only grandchild and demands that Yochay marry Shira in order to keep the family together.
FOXTROT (15) 2017 ISRAEL MAOZ, SAMUEL £15.99
After the death of their soldier son, the grieving parents set out to the desolate checkpoint where he died, hoping to find out what happened to him and what his life was like in his last days.
FREE ZONE (15) 2005 FRANCE GITAI, AMOS IN HEBREW/ARABIC £14.99
Three women travel to the Free Zone, an ungoverned economic area in Jordan, to pick up a debt.
GHOST HUNTING 2017 PALESTINE, ANDONI, RAED DVD £12.99 BLU RAY £17.99
Palestinian filmmaker Raed Andoni’s powerful feature is a hybrid of documentary, fiction and experimental film, which gathers together a group of survivors from Israel’s infamous Al-Moscobiya prison. Together they recreate the physical space of the jail, and their experiences of incarceration and torture
IN BETWEEN (15) 2016 ISRAEL HAMOUD, MAYSALOUN £14.99
Israeli drama about three Palestinian women living in the heart of Tel Aviv who lead complex lives in a predominantly Jewish society and despite their varied backgrounds and lifestyles look to find romantic.
JAMES' JOURNEY TO JERUSALEM (PG) 2003 ISRAEL ALEXANDROWICZ, RA'ANAN £15.99
Israeli comedy drama starring Siyabonga Melongisi Shibe as James, a black South African who decides to go on a pilgrimage to the holy city of Jerusalem. However, when he arrives in Israel, the authorities suspect him of trying to infiltrate the country in order to work illegally and put him in prison. Languishing in his cell awaiting deportation, James sees everything as a test of his faith.
KIPPUR (15) 2000 ISRAEL GITAI, AMOS £15.99
War drama based on Israeli filmmaker Amos Gitai's personal experiences in the 1973 Yom Kippur war..
LEMON TREE (PG) 2008 RIKLIS, ERAN £19.99
Drama based on the true story of Salma, a Palestinian widow who has lived on the green line border between Israel and the West Bank for decades. When the new Israeli Defense Minister moves in next door to Salma, the Israeli security forces declare her lemon grove a threat to the minister's safety and issue orders to have it uprooted. But the security forces have not reckoned on the grit and determination of the widow, who engages young Palestinian lawyer Ziad Daud and takes her case all the way to the Israeli Supreme Court in her attempt to try and save her trees.
MIRAL (15) 2010 SCHNABEL, JULIAN IN ENGLISH, HEBREW & ARABIC £19.99
Hind Husseini (Hiam Abbass) sets up an orphanage following the partition of Palestine and the creation of the state of Israel in 1948 that soon becomes home to almost 2,000 children. Seven-year-old Miral (Freida Pinto) ends up in the orphanage following her mother's death.
Brought up there in an atmosphere of peace and stability, she is unaware of the troubles that surround her until she goes to teach at a refugee camp at the age of 17. There, she finds herself torn between the fight for the future of her people and Mama Hind's belief that education is the only possible route to peace.
MY FATHER MY LORD (PG) ISRAEL 2007 VOLACH, DAVID £15.99
Understated Israeli drama studying the family life of ultra-orthodox rabbi Abraham Eidelmann (Assi Dayan).
NEXT TO HER (15) 2014 ISRAEL KORMAN, ASAF IN HEBREW £15.99
After being abandoned by their mother, 27-year-old Rachel (Ben-Shlush) becomes the full-time carer for her younger sister Gabby (Dana Ivgy), who has severe learning difficulties. However when Rachel finds romance, she has to find a way to break the co-dependence between the two sisters.
NINA'S TRAGEDIES (15) 2003 ISRAEL GAVISON, SAVI £19.99
An interlocking series of stories all observed or heard about by 14-year-old Nadav.
OMAR (15) 2013 PALESTINE ABU-ASSAD, HANY IN ARABIC AND HEBREW DVD - £17.99 BLU RAY - £21.99
Palestinian thriller set in occupied Palestine. Omar a sensitive young baker who is in love with Nadia and must face painful choices about life and manhood.
PARADISE NOW (15) 2005 PALESTINE ABU-ASSAD, HANY IN ENGLISH £17.99
This Oscar nominated film focus on their last days together of two Palestinian childhood friends who have been
recruited for a suicide atta ckon Tel Aviv
PRISONERS OF WAR: SERIES 1(15) 2009 ISRAEL RAFF, GIDEON £40.99
The first series of the Israeli drama, which inspired the US drama, 'Homeland’, follows the return to their
homeland of three Israeli soldiers who were held hostage in Lebanon for 17 years.
PRISONERS OF WAR: SERIES (15) 2009 ISRAEL £29.99
All 14 episodes from the second series of the Israeli drama which inspired the US series 'Homeland'.
PRIVATE (15) 2004 ITALY IN ARABIC/HEBREW COSTANZO, SAVERIO £19.99
Drama based on the true story of a forced occupation of a Palestinian house by Israeli soldiers.
ROUTE 181 - FRAGMENTS OF A JOURNEY IN PALESTINE-ISRAEL (15) 2003 ISRAEL-PALESTINE FOUR DISC BOX SET £35.99
A documentary which films along the partition line drawn up by the UN Resolution 181 that
was to separate the Jews and Arabs of Palestine.
THROUGH THE WALL (U) 2016 ISRAEL BURSHTEIN, RAMA £15.99
Heartwarming romantic comedy about an orthodox Jew, Michal, as she desperately searches for a husband after her intended pulls out of marriage.
TIME THAT REMAINS (15) ISRAEL 2009 SULEIMAN, ELIA £19.99
Drama set against the backdrop of the creation of the state of Israel in 1948 through to the present day.
USHPIZIN (PG) 2004 ISRAEL DAR, GIDDI £19.99
This award-winning drama looks at the daily lives of ultra-Orthodox Jews learning, living and loving in modern-day Israel. Following the story of a family facing hardships, they must rely on their faith for miracles to happen during the holiday season.
WAJIB (15) 2017 PALESTINE JACIR, ANNEMARIE £15.99
A Palestinian man reunites with his estranged son during the preparation for his daughter's wedding. However old tensions begin to resurface between the pair as they await confirmation of whether Shadi's mother, who has moved to America, will be able to attend.
WALL (PG) 2004 ISRAEL BITTON, SIMONE ARABIC / HEBREW £19.99
Simone Bitton documents the construction of the massive separation barrier being built in Israel.
YOSSI AND JAGGER (15) 2002 ISRAEL HEBREW £19.99
Military conscripts Yossi and Jaguar are soldiers in love - but secretly so, in this tender drama.
TURKISH DVDS
BAL (HONEY) (PG) TURKEY KAPLANOGLU, SEMIH £15.99
Set in an isolated region in Northeast Turkey, six year old Yusuf slips into
deep into the forest to search for his missing father.
BASKIN (18) 2015 TURKEY EVRENOL, CAN DVD - £12.99 BLU RAY - £15.99
Surreal horror movie about some police officers trapped in an dilapidated building, where events begin to repeat themselves and the officers commit terrible acts as their minds unravel.
BROTHERS IN ARMS (15) 2016 TURKEY CAGLAR, ALPER £14.99
Set in war torn Iraq, Bekir and Oguz join the Turkish special forces and are sent on a dangerous mission.
CLIMATES (15) 2006 TURKEY CEYLAN, NURI BILGE £19.99
Existentialist Turkish drama about a disparate couple over three seasons of their life together.
CROSSING THE BRIDGE (12) TURKEY 2005 AKIN, FAITH £19.99
German band Einstürzende Neubauten go on a search for the sound of Istanbul.
THE CUT (15) 20104 AKIN, FATIH £17.99
Set in the Armenian Genocide of 1915 a man manages to survive the massacres but loses his family and his faith in the process until he discovers that his two daughters might also have survived and heads to America searching for them. In Armenian, Arabic, Turkish, Kurdish, Spanish, English
FETIH 1453 (15) 2012 TURKEY AKSOY, FARUK £15.99
Historical drama about the Ottoman Empire's siege on Constantinople in 1453.
HOME (12) 2011 TURKEY ÖZDEMIR, MUZAFFER £15.99
An architect returns to his hometown after many years, but when he arrives he finds it much changed and that technological advances are spoiling the environment he was once fond of.
THE HUNT FOR VLAD THE IMPALER (15) 2018 TURKEY KAYA, OSMAN £12.99
Set in the 15th century, the film follows a group of Ottoman soldiers, led by Gokkurt , as they try to defeat Vlad Tepes and put an end to his evil reign.
KOSMOS (12A) TURKEY 2011 ERDEM,REHA £15.99
Surrealist drama about Kosmos outsider who arrives in a remote town near the Armenian border of eastern Anatolia. As Kosmos finds his place among the townspeople, they realise that he is no ordinary man, but is in possession of otherworldly capacities and special powers that render him capable of solving people's problems and healing the sick.
KUMA (12) 2012 TURKEY DAG, UMUT £15.99
Ayse, a beautiful 19-year-old girl from the Turkish countryside, is chosen to be married to the handsome Hasan, son of formidable mother Fatma. However, what soon becomes apparent is that Ayse is to be second wife to Fatma’s husband.
MUSTANG (15) 2015 TURKEY ERGÜVEN, DENIZ GAMZE DVD - £15.99 BLU RAY - £19.99
Five orphaned sisters living in a remote Turkish village become part of a scandal after an innocent trip to the beach with some of their male classmates.
MEN ON THE BRIDGE (15) 2009 TURKEY OZGE, ASLI £15.99
Turkish documentary/drama hybrid telling the stories of three young men working on and around the Bosphorus Bridge in central Istanbul.
NIGHT OF SILENCE (PG) 2012 TURKEY ÇELIK, REIS £15.99
Film about a newlywed couple struggling with the pressures of family tradition.
NURI BILGE CEYLAN: THE COMPLETE FILMS (15) TURKEY BLU RAY ONLY £68.99
Features the following films - Koza (Short film, 1995), Kasaba (1998), Clouds of May (2000), Uzak (2002), Climates (2006), Three Monkeys (2008), Once Upon a Time in Anatolia (2011), Winter Sleep (2014) & The Wild Pear Tree (2018).
NURI BILGE CEYLAN: THE EARLY WORKS - KASABA/CLOUDS OF MAY (12) TURKEY £24.99
'Kasaba' (1998) follows the fortunes of a family living in an isolated Turkish town and 'Clouds of May' (2000) is a comedy drama about a film-maker (Muzaffer Ozdemir) returning from cosmopolitan Istanbul to his isolated hometown in order to make a film about his family.
ONCE UPON A TIME IN ANATOLIA (15) 2011 TURKEY CEYLAN, NURI BILGE £15.99
A group of men who set out to locate a dead body in the remote Anatolian steppes. As they travel the various back-stories of their troubled lives are subtly revealed.
THE YUSEF TRILOGY (PG) TURKEY KAPLANOGLU, SEMIH £23.99
Trilogy of films from the Turkish director Semih Kaplanoglu following the life of Yusuf, a poet with strong connections to rural Turkey. Film included are - 'Yumurta' (2007), 'Sut' (2008) and 'Bal' (2010).
THREE MONKEYS (15) 2008 TURKEY CEYLAN, NURI BILGE £19.99
Turkish director Nuri Bilge Ceylan's film tells the story of a family blown apart by lies and non-communication.
TIMES AND WINDS (E) 2006 TURKEY ERDEM, REHA £19.99
Critically-acclaimed flim that follows the trials and tribulations of three friends living in a remote village in Turkey and on the verge of adolescence.
UZAK (15) 2003 TURKEY CEYLAN, NURI BILGE £19.99
The life of a middle-aged photographer living and working in Istanbul is turned upside down when his young cousin Yusuf, a good-natured but insensitive country boy from a poor village background, come to stay with him.
WATCHTOWER (15) 2012 TURKEY ESMER, PELIN £7.99
Set in Turkeys western Black Sea region, Nihat is haunted by the past, and has become a fire warden at a remote observation tower. On meeting Seher, Nihat has to decide if he wants to choose companionship over isolation.
WILD PEAR TREE (15) 2018 TURKEY CEYLAN, NURI BILGE DVD - £13.99 BLU RAY - £19.99
Literature graduate Sinan returns home to his rural village to considers his future, should he become a teacher like his father or try to raise the money to get the book published he has written. As he goes about rasing the money he becomes disenchanted with his father and the rural lifestyle.
WINTER SLEEP (15) 2014 TURKEY CEYLAN,NURI BILGE £15.99
Aydin is a once-renowned actor now living in a remote part of Anatolia where he runs a hotel. Believing himself to be a good man, his perceptions of himself come into question after a number of interactions with his family and wider community cause him to reconsider his commitments and identity.
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