Bentley Brown Movies

Nawaf, a high-school graduate in Saudi Arabia is under pressure to pick a college major. While everyone tells him what they think is best for him, he...

Set in 1987, a young black Saudi man attempts to impress a girl by mimicking the music video of Crown, an iconic singer from that time.

Working underground in the year before the legalization of cinema in Saudi Arabia, a team of mostly women makes its first feature film. Anonymous...

Seaside fireworks, a march to the US-Iran game, and Souk Waqif festivities all make up a series of vignettes from the 2022 World Cup in Qatar....

A young writer roams the streets of Jeddah in search of an ending to his novel about parallel worlds.

Through metaphor, biography and stunning NASA footage, filmmaker Bentley Brown presents us with a very personal filmic essay that explores a failed...

Majid fights his own coach for Faiza's heart and the dream of playing international football.

A young Chadian goes to Lybia to seek his fortune, but comes home empty handed.

When he makes a mistake that sends his family into a financial crunch, Faisal abandons his dreams of American university to work on a chicken farm.

After the death of his Arabic teacher, an American-born filmmaker in the northern African country of Chad revisits home videos to explore the moment...

Residents of Tripoli, Lebanon, reckon with the legacy of an abandoned architectural monstrosity.

Sudanese-American poets and musicians engage in performances and a conversation around third culture identity and the revolution in Sudan, from which...