29 October 2015 4 mins
A fusion of two Cinématons to celebrate the day of experimental cinema in Samawah, Iraq.
Watch the official Samawah, year zero 2015 trailer in HD below or find more Samawah, year zero videos on Vidimovie.
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More movie trailers, teasers, and clips from Samawah, year zero:
Le mélange de deux Cinématons de Gérard Courant pour célébrer la journée de cinéma expérimental à Samawa en Irak. (Version anglaise).
السمّاوة، عام صفر Samawah year zero : un clip de Gérard Courant pour célébrer la présentation de ses films à Samawah Iraq.
Le mélange de deux "Cinématons" de Gérard Courant pour célébrer la journée de cinéma expérimental à Samawa en Irak. (Version arabe).
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20 May 2015
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22 January 2015
15th April 1989. One game of football is about to affect Liam and the city of Liverpool forever.
15 December 2015
Thirty years after defeating the Galactic Empire, Han Solo and his allies face a new threat from the evil Kylo Ren and his army of Stormtroopers.
14 July 2015
Armed with the astonishing ability to shrink in scale but increase in strength, master thief Scott Lang must embrace his inner-hero and help his mentor, Doctor Hank Pym, protect the secret behind his spectacular Ant-Man suit from a new generation of towering threats.
11 January 2015
The story of the modern Los Angeles film industry as a series of monologues. The monologues are delivered by various characters, including a writer, a director, a producer, an actress, and a soccer mom.
01 December 2015
What would it look like if Jesus was born in the 21st century? Savior is a contemprary interpretation of the Christmas story set in modern England.
04 February 2015
A young woman is followed by an unknown supernatural force after a sexual encounter.
14 November 2015
An epic journey into the world of dinosaurs where an Apatosaurus named Arlo makes an unlikely human friend.
16 July 2015
Video game experts are recruited by the military to fight 1980s-era video game characters who've attacked New York.
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A man falls for the dark charms of a beautiful woman he met in a bar. It's too late when he realizes she's hiding something sinister.
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Itso, about 35, drives a special ambulance called a 'corpse-van'. His job is to pick up the bodies of the recently deceased and transport them to the morgue.
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