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The 100 Greatest Arab Films by the Dubai International Film Festival

In 2013, the Dubai International Film Festival (DIFF) invited 475 film critics, writers, novelists, academics, and other arts professionals to select the 10 most important films in the history of Arab cinema. They compiled the results into a top 100, which they published in a book, "Cinema of Passion." The book includes analysis of each film in both English and Arabic, written by 20 film critics.

  • The Night of Counting the Years

    1

  • Cairo Station

    2

  • Chronicle of the Years of Fire

    3

  • The Land

    4

  • The Silences of the Palace

    5

  • Dreams of the City

    6

  • Divine Intervention

    7

  • Kit Kat

    8

  • West Beirut

    9

  • The Dupes

    10

  • Paradise Now

    11

  • Halfaouine: Boy of the Terraces

    12

  • Man of Ashes

    13

  • Ali Zaoua: Prince of the Streets

    14

  • Alexandria… Why?

    15

  • The Message

    16

  • Wedding in Galilee

    17

  • Date Wine

    18

  • The Cruel Sea

    19

  • The Nightingale's Prayer

    20

  • The Time That Remains

    21

  • The Collar and the Bracelet

    22

  • The Beginning and the End

    23

  • Lion of the Desert

    24

  • Stars in Broad Daylight

    25

  • The Night

    26

  • The Wife of an Important Man

    27

  • The Winds of the Aures

    28

  • Omar Gatlato

    29

  • The Sparrow

    30

  • Caramel

    31

  • The Yacoubian Building

    32

  • The Bus Driver

    33

  • The Sin

    34

  • The Water-Carrier Is Dead

    35

  • The Postman

    36

  • Kafr Kassem

    37

  • Where Do We Go Now?

    38

  • Return of the Prodigal Son

    39

  • The Innocent

    40

  • The Gate of the Sun

    41

  • Destiny

    42

  • The Barber of the Poor District

    43

  • Wadjda

    44

  • A Flood in Baath Country

    45

  • The Extras

    46

  • In Casablanca, the Angels Don't Fly

    47

  • Chronicle of a Disappearance

    48

  • Land of Fear

    49

  • The Secret of the Grain

    50

  • The Second Wife

    51

  • Golden Horseshoes

    52

  • The Little Wars

    53

  • I Love Cinema

    54

  • Everyday Life in a Syrian Village

    55

  • Cairo

    56

  • Days of Glory

    57

  • The Dove's Lost Necklace

    58

  • Dreams of Hind and Camilia

    59

  • The Great Journey

    60

  • Mirage

    61

  • Karnak

    62

  • The Will

    63

  • A Thousand Months

    64

  • Wanderers of the Desert

    65

  • The Thug

    66

  • Traces

    67

  • Casanegra

    68

  • Life or Death

    69

  • Bit of Fear

    70

  • Out of Life

    71

  • Fertile Memory

    72

  • Bitter Day, Sweet Day

    73

  • Sejnane

    74

  • The Borders

    75

  • The Beach of Lost Children

    76

  • Salt of This Sea

    77

  • Gossip Over the Nile

    78

  • Chaos, This Is?

    79

  • Al-Yazerli

    80

  • The Leech

    81

  • The Citadel

    82

  • Messages from the Sea

    83

  • The Emigrant

    84

  • Mascarades

    85

  • The Fools Alley

    86

  • The Street Player

    87

  • Amreeka

    88

  • Why, O Violet?

    89

  • Waiting for Happiness

    90

  • Watch Out for Zuzu

    91

  • Beirut Phantom

    92

  • Until Things Get Better

    93

  • Bab El Oued City

    94

  • Citizen Masrey

    95

  • Microphone

    96

  • The Escape

    97

  • Verbal Messages

    98

  • The Cheetah

    99

  • The Flirtation of Girls

    100