Follow the emotional journey of Hiba Noor, a talented artist forced to flee her home country, as she navigates a new life in London while awaiting her asylum fate. This film takes you on a journey into the production of MATAR, a short film about a fellow asylum seeker facing similar problems.
Watch the official The First Drop of Rain: Making MATAR 2023 trailer in HD below.
Mabel Evans Director
United Kingdom 16 March 2023
If you liked the The First Drop of Rain: Making MATAR trailer, you may like these ones:
27 January 2017
A Russian mother and her queer son try to cope with their new situation, as the son, a political activist and radical artist, applies for political asylum in Europe.
23 June 2015
The Same Difference is a documentary about lesbians who discriminate against other lesbians! The Same Difference, through a series of lesbian women stories, discusses the hypocrisy in terms of gender roles and the per formative expectations.
19 June 2020
An investigation of how Hollywood's fabled stories have deeply influenced how Americans feel about transgender people, and how transgender people have been taught to feel about themselves.
28 November 2012
The poor may always have been with us, but attitudes towards them have changed. Beginning in the Neolithic Age, Ben Lewis's film takes us through the changing world of poverty.
22 April 2018
Though legendary lyricist Howard Ashman died far too young, his impact on Broadway, movies, and the culture at large were incalculable.
29 November 2015
Follow Chris Cotter, an American traveler, as he explores a common migration path through Ethiopia and into Israel, tracking the plight of Eritrean refugees.
26 June 2003
Private Diary documents photographer Pedro Usabiaga working with a variety of amateur models. The audience sees how the relationships between the photographer and the subjects changes during their time together, as well as how the individual photographs begin to take shape.
28 June 2018
Four transgender people are wandering around the streets while they tell us about their life experiences in a country that doesn't have a place for them.
01 January 1985
Amir, shot during the height of the Afghan civil war in the 1980s, investigates and portrays the life of Afghan refugees living in and around the city of Peshawar in northern Pakistan through the experiences of the musician Amir.
11 November 2015
GlitterBomb is a fantastic 32-minute documentary that showcases the best of the 2015 Mardi Gras season.
26 January 2020
This searing investigative work shadows a group of activists risking unimaginable peril to confront the ongoing anti-LGBTQ program raging in the repressive and closed Russian republic.
07 March 2022
How do feminist and queer identities operate in contemporary Belfast? Let Us Be Seen is a documentary film that presents the work and ideas of individuals on the ground in Belfast, who have campaigned tirelessly for change and continue to do so.
These some of the most viewed trailers for movies released in 2023:
26 December 2023
Rocket Saves the Day is a preschooler feature based on the New York Times bestselling Rocket book series created by Tad Hills and published by Random House Children’s Books.
26 June 2023
Following up the hit documentary “UFO Conspiracies: The Hidden Truth”, a shocking expose of hidden extra-terrestrial knowledge, going beyond UFO sightings and ‘lights in the sky’ to actual alien contact; visitations, abductions, and most astonishing of all, the possibility that aliens not only walk among us but have perhaps done so since the beginning of time!
06 April 2023
In this anthology of shorts, the phrase "Gay Agenda" is reclaimed from the religious right and transformed into a celebration of gay culture.
17 May 2023
Over many missions and against impossible odds, Dom Toretto and his family have outsmarted, out-nerved and outdriven every foe in their path.
27 February 2023
A group of desperate vampires search for a way to stop their addictive lifestyle.
10 December 2023
Chris ‘The Gentleman’ Billam-Smith (18-1, 12 KO’s) makes the first defence of his WBO World Cruiserweight Championship against Polish powerhouse Mateusz Masternak (47-5, 31 KO’s) at the Bournemouth International Centre.
23 January 2023
During an evening after high-school, friends Josh and Robbie come to realise their outlooks on life are not as similar as they once were.
19 May 2023
Investigative journalist Rae de Leon travels nationwide to uncover and examine a shocking pattern: Young women tell the police they’ve been sexually assaulted, but instead of finding justice, they’re charged with the crime of making a false report, arrested, and even imprisoned by the system they believed would protect them.
23 July 2023
In a big abandoned house on a barren hill lives a skull. A brave girl named Otilla has escaped from terrible danger and run away, and when she finds herself lost in the dark forest, the lonely house beckons.
05 April 2023
While working underground to fix a water main, Brooklyn plumbers—and brothers—Mario and Luigi are transported down a mysterious pipe and wander into a magical new world.
16 December 2023
Francesco Grandelli faces Stefan Voda for the vacant Silver European Featherweight Title and Sandor Martin fights to hold tight his no.
Have you watched The First Drop of Rain: Making MATAR yet? What did you think about it?
Artwork, screen shots, trailers and other imagery is © 2023 Waterbear Films, Deadbeat Films.
