STORIES UNTOLD - Arab women uncensored

We all have lives. We all have stories. We all have phones.

The series of the short films STORIES UNTOLD present the unique stories of eleven exceptional women from six countries across the MENA region. The women in the film have made the films themselves with the help and facilitation of six professional female filmmakers from Tunisia, Egypt, Palestine, Lebanon, Jordan and Oman. Together, the films offer a wide range of important as well as personal testimonies from the region, sharing their way of seeing their environment through an intended low-tech expression, namely mobile phones.

We hope that women all over the world can mirror themselves in the personal representations of these women – and even become inspired to tell their own stories using their own phones. STORIES UNTOLD aspires to popularise and democratise this method of filmmaking and use it as a catalyser of visualised personal storytelling of people all over the world.

Information about STORIES UNTOLD
Country: Denmark, Jordan, Tunisia, Egypt, Oman, Lebanon, Palestine
Year: Summer 2015
Language: Arabic
Subtitles: English
Genre: Documentary
Produced by: C:NTACT & Ma3mal 612

Recap from a selection of the STORIES UNTOLD film series:
A Lebanese woman who writes a letter to herself from the father who abandoned her.
A peasant woman from Tunisia who refuses to give up her passion for farming.
A footballer from Palestine who had to force her male coaches to take her seriously.
A Syrian woman who has lived in Jordan many years who suddenly became a refugee.
An Egyptian woman who finds solace in the Sufi tradition.
A Baluchi woman from Oman who shows her joy of making Baluchi dresses.

C:NTACT (DK) and Ma3mal 612 (JO) present the film series STORIES UNTOLD.
The film series has been screened at several festivals and in all participating countires.

The project is funded by the Danish Centre for Gender, Equality and Diversity, KVINFO and Danish-Arab Partnership Programme.

Subtitling and translation of the trailer
Omar Tarawneh
Abdallah AbuRub

Title: The next year we'll have a good harvest
First-time Filmmaker: Zohra Bellamine
Tutor: Soumeya Bouallegui
Running time: 09:51
Year of Production: June 2015
Zohra has chosen to be a farmer in Tunisia. She narrates her relationship with the land she works in, with her father who died and with the rain she awaits.

STORIES UNTOLD present the unique stories of exceptional women from Tunisia, Egypt, Palestine, Lebanon, Jordan and Oman. The films made by the women offer a wide range of personal testimonies from the region, sharing their way of seeing their environment through an intended low-tech expression, namely mobile phones.
Link to the trailer of the films. vimeo.com/141768110

Title: One step too late
First-time Filmmaker: Rima Al Nihawi
Tutor: Lina Alabed
Running time: 07:45
Year of Production: June 2015
Rima is a 35 years old daughter who took the first steps in confronting her father’s abandonment of the whole family, in order to achieve some reconciliation with her past and overcome her fears.

STORIES UNTOLD present the unique stories of exceptional women from Tunisia, Egypt, Palestine, Lebanon, Jordan and Oman. The films made by the women offer a wide range of personal testimonies from the region, sharing their way of seeing their environment through an intended low-tech expression, namely mobile phones.
Link to the trailer of the films. vimeo.com/141768110

Title: Pashk
First-time Filmmaker: Fatma Hassan
Tutor: Muzna Al Musafer
Running time: 11:09
Year of Production: June 2015
Fatma is a woman in her early fifties with thick voice, tall body, always wearing Baluchi colourful clothes. She tells the story of her daily routines and her joy in telling the story of her admiration with the Baluchi dresses.

STORIES UNTOLD present the unique stories of exceptional women from Tunisia, Egypt, Palestine, Lebanon, Jordan and Oman. The films made by the women offer a wide range of personal testimonies from the region, sharing their way of seeing their environment through an intended low-tech expression, namely mobile phones.
Link to the trailer of the films. vimeo.com/141768110

Title: Captain Abeer
First-time Filmmaker: Abeer Harb
Tutor: Emtyaz Al Moghrabi
Running time: 07:39
Year of Production: June 2015
Abeer is a student and the only coach for the women’s soccer team in Balata refugee camp, Nablus. She faces the fact that there is no women’s soccer team in Northern West Bank as traditions forbid women to practice soccer.

STORIES UNTOLD present the unique stories of exceptional women from Tunisia, Egypt, Palestine, Lebanon, Jordan and Oman. The films made by the women offer a wide range of personal testimonies from the region, sharing their way of seeing their environment through an intended low-tech expression, namely mobile phones.
Link to the trailer of the films. vimeo.com/141768110

Title: Fate, wherever it takes us
First-time Filmmaker: Qadar Fayyad
Tutor: Mais Sahli
Running time: 08:35
Year of Production: June 2015
From the minefields to asylum, Kadar takes us through her journey as a volunteer and tells the stories of others through her own.

STORIES UNTOLD present the unique stories of exceptional women from Tunisia, Egypt, Palestine, Lebanon, Jordan and Oman. The films made by the women offer a wide range of personal testimonies from the region, sharing their way of seeing their environment through an intended low-tech expression, namely mobile phones.
Link to the trailer of the films. vimeo.com/141768110