Zanj Revolution (2015)

Release Date: 2015-03-11
Runtime: 2h 17min
Production Company: Neffa Films
Production Country: Algeria, France, Lebanon, Qatar
Director: Tariq Teguia
Writers: Yacine Teguia , Tariq Teguia .

Ibn Battuta works as a journalist for an Algerian daily newspaper. While covering community clashes in Southern Algeria, he finds himself incidentally picking up the trail of long forgotten uprisings against the Abbasid Caliphate, back in 8th-9th century Iraq. For the purpose of his investigation he goes to Beirut, a city that used to embody the hopes and struggles of the Arab World...