Welcome to mec film!
mec film is an international distribution and sales company for films by Arab directors.
- The films in the International Catalogue vary in length and genre and can be booked by cinemas, festivals, cultural and educational institutions or social centres. The films all have English subtitles, sometimes we can provide translation in additional languages.
- mec film is serving as agent to the films of renown Syrian film-maker Mohamad Malas. Together with Dunia Film in Damascus we make copies available or connect you to the distributor for your territory.
- The movies in the German Catalogue are distributed in cinemas in Germany and are subtitled in German, they are all feature length.
- Many titles from the catalogue can be watched online in Europe at the mec film channel at our VOD partner sooner and in Arab countries at istikana. Those who prefer to hold a DVD in their hand find most of the titles from this catalogue as well as selected additional films from the Arab World in our DVD-shop.
- Universities can acquire educational rights for all titles, please contact us directly via mail.
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In this catalogue you find short and feature length films with English subtitles, sometimes we can provide additional languages. Most films are available in digital formats. more
FROM CAIRO
by Hala Galal shows on Aflamuna.online - worldwide and for free - beginning 24th September 2025 for 14 days.
THE ONE MAN VILLAGE
by Simon Habre is invited to the Bustan Film Week in Cairo (Egypt) at the end of September 2025.
BIRDS OF SEPTEMBER
by Sarah Francis is showing in the end of September 2025 at the Bustan Film Week in Cairo (Egypt).
mec film is serving as agent to the films of renown Syrian film-maker Mohamad Malas. Together with Dunia Film in Damascus we make copies available or connect you to the distributor for your territory. more
DREAMS OF THE CITY
by Mohamad Malas is invited to a screening at the Northwest Film Forum in Seattle (USA) on 24th September 2025 and at the end of the month at the Bustan Film Week in Cairo (Egypt).
The Cinema of Muhammad Malas. Visions of a Syrian Auteur
This book by Samirah Alkassim and Nezar Andary provides an in-depth and intimate study of the cinema of Muhammad Malas. Archival images run through the chapters of this book which combines insightful interviews with excerpts from Malas’s literary works and critical explorations of his cinematic style and thematic concerns. The book concludes with Malas’s own words, sharing the treatment of his film project Cinema al-Dunya. more
The films in the German Catalogue are licensed for German theatrical and institutional release and have German subtitles. The movies are shown in the regular art-house more
FROM GROUND ZERO
the short film compilation from Gaza shows
20.9.2025 AmkA in Frankfurt am Main
23./24. 9.2025 Zazie in Halle
26.9.2025 Welcome at Home Film Festival in Bernau (in the presence of the distributor)
30.9.2025 Monopol Kino in Munich (followed by a Q&A with producer Rashid Mashrawi)
4.10.2025 community center in Offenbach
28th of October at BulBul Berlin
ROUTE 181 - FRAGMENTS OF A JOURNEY IN PALESTINE - ISRAEL
by Michel Khleifi and Eyal Sivan is presented by Kino im Sprengel in Hannover on 11th October 2025 (in the presence of the distributor Irit Neidhardt).