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351 articles available in total starting from 21/03/2017. Last article published on 04/11/2025.

Aga Woszczyńska’s Black Water enters the editing bay

Aga Woszczyńska’s Black Water enters the editing bay

The Polish filmmaker, who made her debut with 2021’s Silent Land, has finished shooting her sophomore feature, which reunites her with actors Agnieszka Żulewska and Dobromir Dymecki  

04/11 | Production | Funding | Poland/Finland/Germany/Estonia/Denmark

Aboozar Amini  • Director of Kabul, Between Prayers

Interview: Aboozar Amini • Director of Kabul, Between Prayers

“What struck me most on this return to Kabul was exhaustion — people are tired, not just physically, but historically”

The filmmaker, who left Afghanistan in 2001, breaks down how he made the second part of his documentary trilogy about Kabul  

30/10 | Astra 2025

CineGouna Funding awards best projects, including European co-productions

CineGouna Funding awards best projects, including European co-productions

El Gouna Film Festival’s lab and pitching platform handed prizes to projects from the MENA region with European participation  

28/10 | El Gouna 2025

The Cairo International Film Festival readies its 46th edition

The Cairo International Film Festival readies its 46th edition

The oldest film gathering in the MENA region will welcome European productions and co-productions, and present Hungary’s Ildikó Enyedi with the Career Achievement Award  

15/10 | Cairo 2025

Bartek Pulcyn  • Artistic director, Warsaw Film Festival

Interview: Bartek Pulcyn • Artistic director, Warsaw Film Festival

“The role of our festival is to shed light on what is valuable”

Warsaw’s new artistic director discusses the changes he has introduced to the structure of the event, unspooling from 10-19 October  

10/10 | Warsaw 2025

Review: Exile

Review: Exile

Mehdi Hmili's film is an ambient, slow-burning vengeance flick that becomes, inadvertently perhaps, a comment on a masculinity crisis  

13/08 | Locarno 2025 | Out of Competition

Kamal Aljafari • Director of With Hasan in Gaza

Interview: Kamal Aljafari • Director of With Hasan in Gaza

“As strange as it might sound, I still don’t remember having shot all this material”

The Palestinian director explains the peculiar circumstances which led to him turning some lost tapes of life in Gaza in the early 2000s into a film  

07/08 | Locarno 2025 | Competition

The Sickness of Yerevan and Wolfgang share Yerevan's GAIFF Pro Grand Prix

The Sickness of Yerevan and Wolfgang share Yerevan's GAIFF Pro Grand Prix

Four more projects, namely UXXR – Is There Sex After the USSR?, American Dream: The Return of Captain Kabonga, In The Coffee Grounds and Process were given Special Mentions  

28/07 | Golden Apricot 2025 | GAIFF Pro

Christine Haroutounian • Director of After Dreaming

Interview: Christine Haroutounian • Director of After Dreaming

“The question of what constitutes the self is at the root of everything I make”

The director and artist of Armenian roots breaks down the origins of her film and explains how her powerful images and concepts came into being  

23/07 | Golden Apricot 2025

Fiume o morte! emerges triumphant at the 22nd Golden Apricot International Film Festival

Fiume o morte! emerges triumphant at the 22nd Golden Apricot International Film Festival

Holy Electricity and Songs of Slow Burning Earth were also victorious at the Armenia-based film event  

23/07 | Golden Apricot 2025 | Awards

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