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204 articles available in total starting from 06/05/2010. Last article published on 09/09/2025.

Lana Daher • Director of Do You Love Me

Interview: Lana Daher • Director of Do You Love Me

"In Lebanon we do have a lot of pain but we also have a lot of art, music and love"

VENICE 2025: The Lebanese helmer casts an eye over the fragmented historical, social, cultural and political landscapes of Beirut in her debut feature-length documentary  

09/09 | Venice 2025 | Giornate degli Autori

Review: Palestine 36

Review: Palestine 36

Thanks to a committed choral film weaved with much narrative agility, Annemarie Jacir returns to a sadly decisive historical chapter for the Palestinian people  

08/09 | Toronto 2025 | Gala Presentations

Review: Do You Love Me

Review: Do You Love Me

VENICE 2025: Using only archival material, Lebanese director Lana Daher composes a vivid and multiform portrait of her beloved village martyred by too many wars  

08/09 | Venice 2025 | Giornate degli Autori

Cyril Aris • Director of A Sad and Beautiful World

Interview: Cyril Aris • Director of A Sad and Beautiful World

"I try to tell the story of Lebanon today and its ups and downs through the story of a couple with two different worldviews"

VENICE 2025: The Lebanese director talks to us about his debut fiction feature, a love story set against the backdrop of a deeply scarred country, Lebanon  

04/09 | Venice 2025 | Giornate degli Autori

Review: Cotton Queen

Review: Cotton Queen

VENICE 2025: In spite of its title, Suzannah Mirghani’s impressive debut, following a Sudanese girl assessing her future on a plantation, avoids any fluff  

03/09 | Venice 2025 | International Film Critics’ Week

Yanis Koussim • Director of Roqia

Interview: Yanis Koussim • Director of Roqia

“I write about my wounds”

VENICE 2025: The Algerian director takes on his country’s trauma and delivers a personal horror story  

02/09 | Venice 2025 | International Film Critics’ Week

Review: A Sad and Beautiful World

Review: A Sad and Beautiful World

VENICE 2025: In his feature-length fiction debut, Cyril Aris tells a love story unfolding in parallel with the joys and deep sorrows of a continually changing Lebanon  

02/09 | Venice 2025 | Giornate degli Autori

Review: Roqia

Review: Roqia

VENICE 2025: Under the guise of a dark genre film about possession and exorcism, Yanis Koussim distils an allegory about the timeless dangers of fundamentalism  

01/09 | Venice 2025 | International Film Critics’ Week

Review: Irkalla – Gilgamesh’s Dream

Review: Irkalla – Gilgamesh’s Dream

Mohamed Jabarah Al-Daradji takes us onto the streets of Baghdad, where children have to fend for themselves if they want to survive the constant turmoil  

14/08 | Locarno 2025 | Piazza Grande

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

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