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

EXCLUSIVE: Trailer for Berlinale Forum title Between Revolutions

EXCLUSIVE: Trailer for Berlinale Forum title Between Revolutions

Vlad Petri's hybrid film mixes politics with poetry, and past with present, in the story of the friendship between a Romanian woman and an Iranian one in between the revolutions in their countries  

13/02/2023 | Berlinale 2023 | Forum

Review: A House in Jerusalem

Review: A House in Jerusalem

Creative duo Muayad and Rami Alayan craft a touching coming-of-age tale exploiting some well-known tropes about loss and trauma but in a fresh, powerful fashion  

01/02/2023 | IFFR 2023 | Limelight

Review: Animalia

Review: Animalia

A mysterious alien invasion sends a pregnant bride on a journey through Morocco and into deep soul-searching in Sofia Alaoui's captivating debut feature  

23/01/2023 | Sundance 2023 | World Cinema Dramatic Competition

Sofia Alaoui  • Director of Animalia

Interview: Sofia Alaoui • Director of Animalia

“We have stuck Arab cinema in a pigeon-hole: I want to fight against these stereotypes”

We spoke to the Moroccan-French filmmaker about her fantastical feature debut, set in Morocco and raising important questions about faith  

20/01/2023 | Sundance 2023 | World Cinema Dramatic Competition

Review: Non-Aligned: Scenes from the Labudović Reels

Review: Non-Aligned: Scenes from the Labudović Reels

The second half of Mila Turajlić’s diptych about the cameraman who became Yugoslav president Tito's personal cinematographer suffers from being too vague and wide-ranging  

24/11/2022 | IDFA 2022

Mila Turajlic • Director of Non-Aligned: Scenes from the Labudović Reels

Interview: Mila Turajlic • Director of Non-Aligned: Scenes from the Labudović Reels

"It was very important for me to show how the story is put together in the film, that the story didn’t exist prior to it"

The Serbian director discusses the second part of her dyptich of documentaries, which re-traces the birth of the Non-Aligned Movement during the era of decolonization  

24/11/2022 | IDFA 2022

EXCLUSIVE: Trailer for IDFA Envision competition title Notes on Displacement

EXCLUSIVE: Trailer for IDFA Envision competition title Notes on Displacement

Khaled Jarrar’s in-depth documentary follows a single family on a gruelling journey from Syria to Germany  

09/11/2022 | IDFA 2022

Review: Until Tomorrow

Review: Until Tomorrow

A single mother and her best friend try to find a person to take a baby in for one night in Ali Asgari’s heart-wrenching drama-thriller  

28/10/2022 | Zagreb 2022

Lea Najjar • Director of Kash Kash

Interview: Lea Najjar • Director of Kash Kash

“It was necessary to constantly refocus on this microcosm and find a way to express something bigger through it”

The winner of Best Documentary Film at this year’s First Steps Awards talks about her approach to the singular world portrayed in the movie and its protagonists  

29/09/2022 | /Qatar/Lebanon/Germany

Review: Alam

Review: Alam

Firas Khoury’s debut feature is a fiery and engaging exploration of youth, politicisation and forced forgetting  

19/09/2022 | Toronto 2022 | Contemporary World Cinema

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