DistributionMC MC DISTRIBUTION
Aims to promote and distribute Arab and International independent cinema in the Middle East and North Africa. Working closely with the Metropolis Association, MC DISTRIBUTION releases most of its films at the Metropolis Cinema in Lebanon and other theaters in the region.
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Sarah Hindi [email protected] GHADA EL EID HEAVEN WITHOUT PEOPLE BEAUTY AND THE DOGS ALAA KAF IFRIT By Lucien Bourjeily By Kaouther Ben Hania
With Farah Shaer, Wissam Boutrous, Toni Habib, Jenny With Mariam Al Ferjani, Ghanem Zrilli, Mohamed Akkari Gebara, Hussein Hijazi, Ghassan Chemali, Etafar Aweke, Nancy Karam, Jean El Hage, Laeticia Semaan, Nadim Tunisia, France, Sweden, Lebanon | Fiction | 2017 | Abou Samra, Samira Sarkis, Mohamad Abbas 100’| Arabic
Lebanon | Fiction | 2017 | 91’ Mariam just wanted to enjoy the night, whena tragic event occurs. Despite the trauma, the pretty Josephine, the matriarch of a sprawling family is Tunisian student is determined to go to the police. delighted to gather everyone for Easter lunch for But what can be done when your perpetrator is the first time in two years. While they all sharea your only chance? joyful meal, an incident ignites underlying tensions between the family members and leads them Un Certain Regard, Cannes Film Festival 2017 gradually into chaos. WAJIB ONE OF THESE DAYS By Annemarie Jacir By Nadim Tabet
With Saleh Bakri, Mouhammad Bakri With Manal lssa, Yumna Marwan, Panos Aprahamian, Nicolas Cardahi France, Palestine | Fiction | 2017 | 97’ | Arabic Lebanon, Qatar I Fiction I 2017 I 80’ I Arabic
Shadi has returned to his hometown of Nazareth Beirut, on an autumn day. The city is on the edge after years abroad to help his father hand- of chaos, but for Maya, Tarek, Yasmina and Rami, deliver his sister’s wedding invitations, as per local aged between 17 and 22 years old, it is just an ordinary day during which Palestinian custom. As the estranged pair spend they question themselves about sex, love and the day together going house-to-house to deliver night time hanging out. the invitations, the tense details of their relationship come to a head challenging their fragile and very different lives. LOOKING FOR OUM KOULTHOUM THE TRAVELLER By Shirin Neshat By Hadi Ghandour With Neda Rahmanian, Yasmin Roes, Kais Nashef, Me- With Rodrigue Sleiman, Donia Eden, Aïda Sabra hdi Moinzadeh, Nour Gmar France, Lebanon I 1h40 I Fiction German, Austrian,Moroccan,Italian I Fiction I 2017 I length I Arabic, Farsi, English Adnan, a travel agent in a small Lebanese village, Iranian born director Mitra›s new project is about has always dreamed of travelling the world, but the iconic Egyptian singer Oum Koulthoum. never had to chance to leave his country. In the course of the production in Morocco,she Married, with a child, he lives with this fantasy until faces many difficulties, and understands that she overreached by trying to make the grande dame the day his boss sends him to Paris for business. her role model as a woman who made it in a men›s And so Adnan’s dream begins. world. When her son disappears back in Teheran, she has to make a choice between art and life - or can she reconcile them both? A source of solace is the beauty of Oum Koulthoum›s music. FÉLICITÉ MAHBAS SOLITAIRE By Alain Gomis By Sophie Boutros With Gaetan Claudia, Papi Mpaka With Julia Kassar- Ali El Khalil- Bassam Kousso Betly Taoutel- Jaber Jokhadar France | Belgium | Senegal | Germany | Lebanon | 2h09 | Fiction Lebanon,Jordan, Egypt I Fiction I 2016 I 92 ’I Arabic
Félicité sings in a bar in Kinshasa. When her 20 years past the Lebanese-Syrian war, still -14year-old son has a motorcycle accident, she Therese didn’t get over her brother›s death by goes on a frantic search through the streets of a Syrian bomb.Today her only daughter is getting Kinshasa, a world of music and dreams. And her engaged. Only when the suitor and his parents path crosses that of Tabu. are ather doorstep, she discovers they are from Syria.
Selected, in Arabian nights section,2016 Dubai International Film Festival URBAN DISTRIBUTION INTERNATIONAL LES FILMS DE ZAYNA, ARTE FRANCE, AKKA FILMS and DAR FILMS present
«A DARING AND SHOCKING FILM, MADE WITH FINE CINEMATIC JUDGEMENT.» KEN LOACH
MIMOSAS GHOST HUNTING A FILM BY RAED ANDONI By Raed Andoni By Oliver Laxe WRITTEN AND DIRECTED BY RAED ANDONI IN COPRODUCTION WITH RTS SUPPORTED BY With Ramzi Maqdisi, Mohammad “Abu Atta” Khattab, With AhmedTHE DOHA FILMHammoud,Shakib INSTITUTE WITH RAMZI MAQDISI Ben Omar, MOHAMMED Abdelatif KHATTAB AND Raed Andoni HwidarRAED ANDONI DIRECTOR OF PHOTOGRAPHY CAMILLE COTTAGNOUD ANIMATION LUC PEREZ EDITOR SOUND DESIGNER Palestine I France I Switzerl and Qatar I 2017 I 94 Qatar,Spain,Morocco,GLADYS JOUJOU France I FictionNICOLAS I 2016 BECKER I 93’ min I Color I Arabic with English subtitles I DCP I ArabicSOUND MIXER FRANÇOIS MUSY EXECUTIVE PRODUCER PALMYRE BADINIER PRODUCED BY NICOLAS WADIMOFF PHILIPPE COEYTAUX AND RAED ANDONI As a result of being jailed in the Shin Bet’s A caravan escorts an elderly and dying Sheikh Al-Moskobiya investigation centre at the age of through the Moroccan Atlas. His last wish is to be 18, vvhe cannot determine as real or imagined. buried with his dosed ones. But death does not In order to confront the ghosts that haunt him, he wait. SaÏd and Ahmed, two rogues travelling with decides to try to rebuild that mysterious place. the caravan, say they know the way and promise Responding to a job announcement that seeks to take the corpse to its destiny. ex-inmates of Al-Moskobiya, a large group gathers in an empty yard. Together, they start a journey in Winner,Grand prix Nespresso, 2016 Cannes Film which they rediscover the shape of their old prison Festival and attempt to re-enact their story. JUSTE LA FIN DU MONDE TONI ERDMANN By Xavier Dolan By Maren Ade With Gaspard Ulliel, Vincent Cassel, Nathalie Baye, Léa With Peter Simonischek, Sandra Hüller Seydoux, Marion Cotillard Germany, Austria | Fiction | 2016 | 162’ | German, Canada, France|Fiction|2016 |97’| French English, Romanian
Louis, a terminally ill writer, returns home after a Practical joker Winfried disguises himself as flashy long absence to tell his family that he is dying. “Toni Erdmann” to get busy Ines’ attention and change her corporate lifestyle. Winner, Grand Jury Prize and Ecumenical Jury Prize, The father-daughter challenge reaches absurd 2016 Cannes Film Festival. proportions until Ines begins to see that her eccentric father deserves a place in her life…
Winner, FIPRESCI Prize, 2016 Cannes Film Festival 2016 Germany’s official submission for the89 th Oscars edition for Best Foreign Language Film RABIH TRAMONTANE ALBüM By Vatche Boulghourjian By Mehmet Can Mertoglu With Barakat Jabbour, Julia Kassar, Toufic Barakat With Sebnem Bozoklu,Murat Kili<;,Muttalip Mujdeci Lebanon|Fiction|2016|105’|Arabic Turkey, France, Romania I Fiction I 2016 I 105’ I Turkish
Rabih, a blind musician searches for his origins in A couple in their late 30’s sets out to prepare a a land where people cannot retell their own past. fake photo album of a pseudo pregnancy period in order to prove their biological tie to the baby Winner, Grand Rail d’Or, 2016 Cannes Film Festival they’re planning to adopt. Official selection, Muhr Awards,2016 Dubai International Film Festival Winner, France 4 Visionary Award, 2016 Cannes Film Festival Nominated, Critics Week Grand prize ond Golden Camera, 2016 PLANETARIUM FIRE AT SEA By Rebecca Zlotowski By Gianfranco Rosi With Natalie Portman, Lily-Rose Depp, Emmanuel With Pietro Bartolo, Samuele Pucillo, Samuele Caruana Salinger Italy, France|2016 |1h54|Documentary | Italian France|Fiction|2015|108’|French, English An island halfway between Sicily and Libya has Follows the journey of sisters who are believed to become the vortex of Europe’s immigration possess the supernatural ability to connect with struggles, as observed in this documentary on ghosts. They cross paths with a visionary French Lampedusa, where more than 150,000 Africans producer while performing in Paris. each year make their first contact with European soil.
Golden Bear winner , Berlin Festival 2016 REVENGEANCE AS I OPEN MY EYES - À PEINE J’OUVRE LES YEUX By Bill Plympton and Jim Lujan By Leyla Bouzid With Robert Lujan, Charley Rossman, John Holderried With Baya Medhaffer, Ghalia Benali, Montassar Ayari France, Tunisia, Belgium|Fiction|2015|106’|Arabic A low-rent bounty hunter named Rod Rosse “The One Man Posse” gets entangled in a web of danger Tunis, summer 2010, a few months before the when he is hired by U.S. Senator “Deathface” to Revolution: Farah has just graduated and her find the girl who stole a package. family already sees her as a future doctor. But she discovers love and her city by night against the Selected, 2016 London International Animation Festival will of her mother Hayet, who knows Tunisia and its Nominated, Best Animated Feature Film, 2016 dangers too well. Sitges - Catalonian International Film Festival Winner, Best Fiction Feature, 2015 Dubai International Film Festival Winner, Label Europa cinemas, 2015 Venice Film Festival MUSTANG DOFUS By Deniz Gamze Ergüven By Anthony Roux, Jean-Jacques Denis With Günes Sensoy, Doga Zeynep Doguslu, Tugba Sun- With Sauvane Delanoe, Emmanuel Gradi, Laetitia guroglu Lefebvre Turkey, France, Germany| Fiction|2015|97’| Turkish France|Animation|2015|107’|French Early summer. In a village in northern Turkey, Lale and her four sisters are walking home from Joris, age 10 lives in Bonta with his adoptive school, playing innocently with some boys. The father. Along with his friends and new allies, he will immorality of their play sets off a scandal that has discover his link to the Dofus and attempt to save unexpected consequences. The family home is the city from an evil witch. progressively transformed into a prison; instruction in homemaking replaces school and marriages Annecy Animation Film Festival 2015 start being arranged. The five sisters, who share a common passion for freedom, find ways of getting around the constraints imposed on them.
Nominated, Best Foreign Language Film of the Year, 2016 Academy Awards Winner of 5 Cesar Awards 2016 MARGUERITE YALLAH! UNDERGROUND By Xavier Giannoli By Farid Eslam With Catherine Frot, André Marcon, Michel Fau Featured artists: Zeid Hamdan, Tamer Abou Ghazaleh, Marc Codsi, Mayaline Hage, Maii Waleed Yassin France|Fiction|2015|129’|French Lebanon|Documentary|2015|85’|Arabic Paris, 1920s. Marguerite Dumont, a wealthy lover of the opera, likes to sing for her friends even though Yallah! Underground follows some of today’s she’s a terrible singer. most influential and progressive artists in Arab To shield her from this truth, her husband and underground culture from 2009 to 2013 and entourage have kept her fantasy for many years. documents their work, dreams and fears in a time But what happens when she decides to perform in of great change for Arab societies. front of a real audience… Winner, Best Documentary Feature, 2016 Chicago Winner of 4 Cesar Awards 2016 International Movies and Music Festival Winner, Grand Prize of the Jury, 2016 Cannes Film Winner, Hessian Film Award, 2015 Hessian Film Award Festival Library Title Director Nationality Lengh Year Title Director Nationality Lengh Year Two Friends Louis Garrel France 102’ 2015 Death for Sale Faouzi Bensaïdi Belgium, France, 117’ 2011 Fatima Philippe Faucon France 79’ 2015 Morocco, Germany, UAE Nahid Ida Panahandeh Iran 104’ 2015 A Separation Asghar Farahadi Iran, France 123’ 2011 Parisienne Danielle Arbib France 120’ 2015 All About my Father Zeina Sfeir Lebanon 75’ 2010 Disorder Alice Winnocour France, Belgium 98’ 2015 Lebanon, UAE Mommy Xavier Dolan Quebec, France 139’ 2014 OKay, Enough, Goodbye Rania Attieh & 93’ 2010 Daniel Garcia The Narrow Frame of Midnight Tala Hadid Morocco, USA, France, 93’ 2014 Qatar, UK 75’ 2010 Stray Bullet Goerges Hachem Lebanon Lebanon, Qatar 80’ 2010 I am Nojoom, Age 10 Khadija Al-Salami Yemen 96’ 2014 The Mountain Ghassan Salhab and Divorced 98’ 2010 Here comes the Rain Bahij Hojeij Lebanon Algeria, France 95’ 2009 The Valley Ghassan Salhab Lebanon, France 135’ 2014 Harragas Merzak Allouache Germany, Qatar, UAE 66’ 2009 1958 Ghassan Salhab Lebanon 87’ 2009 Viramundo Pierre-Yves Borgeaud France, Swizterland 95’ 2013 Everyday is a Holiday Dima El-Horr Lebanon, France, Germany 86’ 2008 Ladder to Damascus Mohamad Malas Lebanon, Syria, Qatar 95’ 2013 The One Man Village Simon El Habre Lebanon Lebanon 2013 75’ 2008 Stabe Unstable Mahmoud Hjeij 99’ I Want to See Khalil Joreige & Lebanon, France Blood Ties Guillaume Canet France, USA 127’ 2013 Joana Hadjithomas The Repentant Merzak Allouache Algeria, France 87’ 2012 Melodrama Habibi Hany Tamba Lebanon, France 98’ 2008 Lebanese Rocket Society Khalil Joreige & Lebanon, France, Qatar 93’ 2012 Joana Hadjithomas The Last Man Ghassan Salhab Lebanon, France 75’ 2006 A Perfect Day Khalil Joreige & Lebanon, France, Germany 88’ 2005 Rust and Bones Jacques Audiard France, Belgium 120’ 2012 Joana Hadjithomas Gate#5 Simon El Habre Lebanon, UEA 84’ 2011 Ring of Fire Bahij Hojeij Lebanon 90’ 2004 Sector Zero Nadim Mishlawi Lebanon, UEA 70’ 2011 Leila and the Wolves Heiny Srour Lebanon 90’ 1984 Normal Merzak Allouache Algeria, France 111’ 2011 The Hour Of Liberation Has Arrived Heiny Srour Lebanon 62’ 1974 BEIRUT Achrafieh, Gerges Tueini Street, Bldg. 28, 1st Floor, Beirut - Lebanon Tel: +961 1 332 661