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16 articles available in total starting from 27/06/2012. Last article published on 24/05/2025.

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Tarzan Nasser • Director of Once Upon a Time in Gaza

Interview: Tarzan Nasser • Director of Once Upon a Time in Gaza

"Is the hero the one who gets the credit — or the one who endures and adapts to inhuman conditions?"

CANNES 2025: The Palestinian filmmaker, director of the film alongside with brother Arab, discusses their story of survival, politics and filmmaking set in the Gaza that existed a few years ago  

24/05 | Cannes 2025 | Un Certain Regard

Review: Once Upon a Time in Gaza

Review: Once Upon a Time in Gaza

CANNES 2025: In their humanistic, precise and relaxed style, brothers Arab and Tarzan Nasser put together the true and the false, reality and fiction, genre cinema and geo-political x-ray  

19/05 | Cannes 2025 | Un Certain Regard

Review: Yunan

Review: Yunan

BERLINALE 2025: It was a risky move for Ameer Fakher Eldin to make a subdued film about an exiled writer who’s lost his inspiration and the will to live; sadly, the gamble did not pay off  

20/02 | Berlinale 2025 | Competition

Yunan to compete for the Golden Bear at the Berlinale

Yunan to compete for the Golden Bear at the Berlinale

Syrian director Ameer Fakher Eldin’s movie, the only Arab film in Berlin’s main competition, examines themes of displacement and renewal as part of his “Homeland” trilogy  

24/01 | Production | Funding | Germany/Canada/Italy/Palestine/Qatar/Jordan/Saudi Arabia

Review: From Ground Zero

Review: From Ground Zero

Shortlisted for the International Feature Film Oscar and composed of 22 shorts by as many Palestinian directors, the movie offers up a poignant kaleidoscope of life in the Gaza Strip  

21/01 | Films | Reviews | Palestine/France/Qatar/Jordan/Switzerland

Bassam Alasad • Head of industry, Amman Film Days

Interview: Bassam Alasad • Head of industry, Amman Film Days

“There is a huge network of great producers in Europe who work with Arab films and who understand the culture”

The head of industry talks about crafting the Amman Film Days’ programme for up-and-coming filmmakers from Jordan and the Arab region, and its relevance to Europe  

15/07/2024 | /Jordan/Europe/Middle East

Review: My Sweet Land

Review: My Sweet Land

Sareen Hairabedian’s documentary embraces the hopes, fears, dreams and everyday struggles of an Artsakh boy, one of thousands whose childhood is tied to the local military context  

14/06/2024 | Sheffield Doc Fest 2024

EXCLUSIVE: First look at Sareen Hairabedian’s documentary My Sweet Land

EXCLUSIVE: First look at Sareen Hairabedian’s documentary My Sweet Land

The filmmaker’s debut feature follows an 11-year-old who dreams of becoming a dentist and is forced to leave his war-torn homeland of Artsakh  

10/04/2024 | Production | Funding | France/Jordan/Ireland/USA

Review: Inshallah a Boy

Review: Inshallah a Boy

CANNES 2023: In this debut feature by Jordanian director Amjad Al Rasheed, a widow contends with the country’s patriarchal inheritance laws, as her only child is a daughter  

18/05/2023 | Cannes 2023 | Critics’ Week

Review: Dune

Review: Dune

VENICE 2021: Denis Villeneuve’s take on the 1965 novel is solemn, serious and not a lot of fun  

04/09/2021 | Venice 2021 | Out of Competition

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