A young girl working in her father's Arabic restaurant is forced to decide which comes first - her dreams or her family.
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Georgina Leonidas as Maya
Riz Ahmed as Talal
Nayef Rashed as Nawaf
Erin Wilson as Louise
Alice Brickwood as Maya's Mother
Philip Booth as Jake
Kate Korbel as Waitress
Amar Adatia as Arif
Ash Cairo as Alessio
Elizabeth Garvie as Interviewer
Nimer Rashed Director
Richard Smither Editor
Stuart Biddlecombe Director of Photography
Nimer Rashed Writer
Tim Dickel Production Design
David Morison Art Direction
Tamar Zaig Costume Design
Rose Wicksteed Producer
Thomas Benski Executive Producer
Anna Rice Original Music Composer
United Kingdom 27 October 2008
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25 September 2008
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17 October 2008
A chronicle of the life of a middle-class French girl's sexual adventures, her then fall into prostitution, and her ultimate redemption.
24 April 2008
He lived the junkie's life as a heroin addict. Triathlon transformed him. Biopic of the record breaking Ironman Andreas Niedrig.
11 September 2008
Spring 1945: the Allies are outside Hamburg. In front of a movie theater, Lena Brücker meets Hermann Bremer, a marine assigned to the 'final battle on the home front'.
28 October 2008
Determined to understand the repeating patterns he was finding in nature, French mathematician Benoit Mandelbrot used an early form of computer imagery to produce his own versions, coining the recurring shapes fractals.
01 February 2008
Three small films for as many reflections on the senses and human knowledge. In the first episode, Emmer reviews with anthological and didactic intent the precepts of ancient philosophy, from Greek to Roman civilization; in the second, working as he did at the beginning of his career on a vast repertoire of pictorial and non-pictorial images, he analyzes the “history of the gaze” in the visual arts, from prehistoric graffiti to medieval altarpieces, from Impressionist and Cubist paintings to modern-day advertising posters; finally, in the third, recounting with irony and lightness a day of solitude in his mountain home, he reflects on the intellectual thinking of writers and great thinkers, relating to his own individual experience as much the words of oral tradition and popular culture as the writings of geniuses such as Shakespeare, Spinoza or Gogol.
01 January 2008
Daniel is a scientist who just got married to April, an attractive, immature and extroverted youth who reveals a side of herself which he has not yet seen, unleashing conflicts with the inhabitants of her hometown.
29 August 2008
Money alone does not make you happy. This is something the newly minted millionaire Kurt Basinski finds painful when his wife leaves him.
09 July 2008
Jonathan and Romario are two Afro-Ecuadorian children from the Chota Valley, one of the poorest regions of Ecuador.
08 August 2008
Part of Bill Viola’s Transfiguration series, The Innocents explores the presence of the dead in the world of the living.
10 December 2008
A beautiful grad student named Tara Simmons is abducted by aliens in a flying saucer. Four days later she finds herself back on earth at the top secret government facility Areola 51, which documents sexual encounters with aliens.
01 January 2008
In this soulful surf documentary, filmmaker Cyrus Sutton shadows five different surfers, capturing the ups and downs of their daily routines -- much like the ebb and flow of the waves they ride with such passion.
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