Middle East
Les Films du 3 Mars (F3M) invites you to discover thematic cinema about Middle East. From fiction to documentaries, long and short, enjoy the best of Québécois and Canadian filmmaking !
THE UNTOUCHABLE
15 min, Fiction, Iran/Canada, 2021
A young woman named Yassi, who is clearly very upset, stands in the middle of a highway holding up traffic. The situation gets worse when Sergeant Jabbari arrives on the scene to arrest her.
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THE ROSES OF DAMASCUS
10 min 50, France, 2019
An exile seeks refuge, the spectator confront himself to the different spaces of memorie’s refugee :
Camps and barbed, the journey in a sea, a ceaseless walk.
XALKO
100 min., Documentary, Québec, Canada, 2018
This film looks at Xalko, a kurdish village in Turkey, threatened by exodus. Deserted by its men who have gone to Europe or America, Xalko still survives thanks to those who keep the fort: mothers and children who do what it takes to keep it alive. It looks at migration from those left behind.
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ZAGROS
58 min., Documentary, Quebec, Canada, 2018
ZAGROS follows the creation of carpets across the Western mountains of Iran, revealing the colours of a culture through labour.
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THE AMINA PROFILE
85min, Documentary, Quebec, Canada, 2015
During the Arab revolution, a love story between two women – a Canadian and a Syrian American – turns into an international socio-political thriller spotlighting media excesses and the thin line between truth and falsehood on the Internet.
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