Mediterranean Modern (Boutros Al Armenian)(Jamelie Hassan, Lebanon/Canada, 1997). An itinerant Armenian painter, a refugee fleeing the 1915 genocide in his country, makes a circuitous voyage to a mountain village in Lebanon where he is commissioned to paint the interior of Hassan's family home. Hassan deftly maps the uneasiness of reinventing identity, adaptability, and cultural preservation. "Home is not a fixed place but a constantly negotiated space between self and location." (8 mins, From V-Tape)

Her + Him, Van Leo (Akram Zaatari, Egypt/Lebanon, 2001). A portrait of a portrait photographer, about photography before video, the defects of the negative, perfection of the body image, and a relationship between youth and the immortal. (32 mins, In Arabic and French with English subtitles, From V-Tape)

A Woman Taxi Driver in Sidi Bel-Abbès (Une Femme Taxi à Sidi Bel-Abbès)(Belkacem Hadjadj, Algeria/Belgium, 2000). After the death of her husband, Soumicha must make money to support herself and her children. As most jobs are reserved for men, she takes a chance and becomes the only woman taxi driver in Sidi Bel-Abbès, Algeria, where tradition still reigns and extremist political violence takes place. Best Documentary Film, Arab Screen Independent Film Festival, Qatar. (52 mins, In Arabic and French with English subtitles, From First Run/Icarus).