Koran by Heart

2011

English

7.3

♡ 8

82%

In this 80-minute documentary, three 10-year-old children leave their native countries to participate in one of the Islamic world’s most famous competitions, a test of memory and recitation known as The International Holy Koran Competition. Up against much older students, these youngsters have committed the 600 pages of the Koran to memory, and will put their skills to the test before the elite of the world’s Muslim community in Cairo, Egypt. In the midst of this intense international competition, the three young competitors –two boys from Senegal and Tajikistan, and one girl from the Maldives – face uncertain futures at home, as they are caught between fundamentalist and moderate visions of Islam. The children discuss their recitation techniques – with accompanying, completely improvised melodies – and talk about their nerves and excitement as they finally compete before a panel of judges.

London River

2009

English

6.9

♡ 2

91%

Rachid Bouchareb Director

Brenda Blethyn as Elisabeth Sommers

Sami Bouajila as Imam

Francis Magee as Inspecteur anglais

Bernard Blancan as Ouvrier Forestier

After traveling to London to check on their missing children in the wake of the 2005 terror attacks on the city, two strangers come to discover their respective children had been living together at the time of the attacks

Monsieur Ibrahim

2003

French

7.3

♡ 10

parent child relationship

paris, france

prostitute

François Dupeyron Director

Isabelle Adjani as La star

Guillaume Gallienne as Le vendeur voiture

Éric Caravaca as 'Momo' 30 ans

Omar Sharif as Monsieur Ibrahim Deneji

Paris, 1960s. Momo, a resolute and independent Jewish teenager who lives with his father, a sullen and depressed man, in a working-class neighborhood, develops a close friendship with Monsieur Ibrahim, an elderly Muslim who owns a small grocery store.

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