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62 articles available in total starting from 18/05/2008. Last article published on 09/01/2025.

EXCLUSIVE: Danielle Arbid shooting Love Conquers All

EXCLUSIVE: Danielle Arbid shooting Love Conquers All

Hiam Abbass and Mohamat Amine Benrachid lead the cast of the director’s new movie, produced by Easy Riders Films  

09/01 | Production | Funding | France/Lebanon/United Arab Emirates

Mathijs Poppe • Director of The Jacket

Interview: Mathijs Poppe • Director of The Jacket

“We are constantly projecting futures but also pasts, and we are trying to make sense of the world around us through fiction”

The Belgian director speaks about using a blend of documentary and fiction to create a story that reckons with the past, present and Palestinian hopes for the future  

27/11/2024 | IDFA 2024

Review: The Jacket

Review: The Jacket

Belgian director Mathijs Poppe’s documentary is a multilayered narrative tracking a symbolic garment through the Shatila refugee camp in Lebanon  

22/11/2024 | IDFA 2024

Seyfettin Tokmak • Director of Empire of the Rabbits

Interview: Seyfettin Tokmak • Director of Empire of the Rabbits

"I tried to show how brutal a man's world can be without women in a rural area of Turkey"

The Turkish filmmaker discusses his new feature, a daring boy's journey against the cruel entanglements of deception and disabilities of the adult world  

22/11/2024 | Black Nights 2024 | Competition

Review: Empire of the Rabbits

Review: Empire of the Rabbits

A boy growing up in extreme poverty defies his father and the whole corrupt system in Turkish filmmaker Seyfettin Tokmak's new feature  

15/11/2024 | Black Nights 2024 | Competition

EXCLUSIVE: Trailer for IDFA Luminous title The Jacket

EXCLUSIVE: Trailer for IDFA Luminous title The Jacket

Mathijs Poppe’s documentary is a portrait of a Palestinian man who lives in exile with his family in the Shatila refugee camp in Beirut  

22/10/2024 | IDFA 2024

Review: Green Line

Review: Green Line

French director Sylvie Ballyot presents a debut feature that revisits the Lebanese Civil War period through the eyes of a young girl  

19/08/2024 | Locarno 2024 | Competition

Giovanni C Lorusso • Director of Song of all Ends

Interview: Giovanni C Lorusso • Director of Song of all Ends

“I believe in long, calm, reflective experiences, where things aren’t brutally projected onto our brains and we take the time to understand them"

The Italian director chatted with us about his documentary shot in the Shatila refugee camp following the explosion at the Port of Beirut in 2020  

13/05/2024 | /Italy/France/Lebanon

Review: We Are Inside

Review: We Are Inside

In her remarkable, intimately autobiographical documentary, Lebanese director Farah Kassem finds the political in poetry and infuses politics with the poetic  

18/04/2024 | Visions du Réel 2024

Review: Embodied Chorus

Review: Embodied Chorus

Danielle Davie and Mohamad Moe Sabbah offer a look both raw and poetic at life with an STI  

11/03/2024 | Luxembourg 2024

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