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42 articles available in total starting from 02/03/2015. Last article published on 12/06/2025.

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Rashid Masharawi • Director of Passing Dreams

Interview: Rashid Masharawi • Director of Passing Dreams

“Palestinians find themselves in absurd or ironic situations, and I think that laughing about it is also a form of resistance”

The established filmmaker speaks about his bittersweet road movie centred on a boy who stubbornly follows a carrier pigeon across Palestine, believing it has returned home  

15/11/2024 | Cairo 2024

Review: Thank You for Banking With Us!

Review: Thank You for Banking With Us!

Palestinian filmmaker Laila Abbas tackles the contemporary realities of gendered Islamic law in her debut feature, about two sisters fighting for their fair share of their late father’s inheritance  

21/10/2024 | London 2024

Scandar Copti • Director of Happy Holidays

Interview: Scandar Copti • Director of Happy Holidays

“I’m a big believer in the process of liberation, and I truly believe that nobody’s free until everybody’s free”

VENICE 2024: The Palestinian director breaks down his methods of writing and shooting as well as interrogating concepts like morality and the normalisation of oppression  

05/09/2024 | Venice 2024 | Orizzonti

Review: Happy Holidays

Review: Happy Holidays

VENICE 2024: Palestinian filmmaker Scandar Copti makes effective use of an ensemble cast in this portrait of contemporary family life in Israel, replete with its many intricacies  

04/09/2024 | Venice 2024 | Orizzonti

Review: To a Land Unknown

Review: To a Land Unknown

CANNES 2024: Mahdi Fleifel’s second feature is a migrant drama steeped in empathy, boasting an uncompromising lead performance by Mahmood Bakri  

25/05/2024 | Cannes 2024 | Directors’ Fortnight

Mahdi Fleifel • Director of To a Land Unknown

Interview: Mahdi Fleifel • Director of To a Land Unknown

“I’m always intrigued by what it means to have no place where you belong”

CANNES 2024: The Palestinian-Danish director takes on the melancholy of exile as two Palestinian cousins get stranded in Greece  

24/05/2024 | Cannes 2024 | Directors’ Fortnight

Basel Adra, Yuval Abraham • Directors of No Other Land

Interview: Basel Adra, Yuval Abraham • Directors of No Other Land

“None of us have any experience with documentaries, so we just decided to go on this journey together as part of our activism”

Two of the four-strong team of directors explain why they made a project documenting the forced resettlement of a Palestinian community in the occupied West Bank  

28/02/2024 | Berlinale 2024 | Panorama

Review: No Other Land

Review: No Other Land

Basel Adra, Hamdan Ballal, Yuval Abraham and Rachel Szor sign a moving and intimate debut documentary on the eviction of Palestinians from ancestral West Bank villages  

18/02/2024 | Berlinale 2024 | Panorama

Review: The Teacher

Review: The Teacher

Farah Nabulsi’s strong feature debut sheds light on the political situation in Palestine, with the recent tragic events in the country imbuing it with a horrific context  

11/12/2023 | Red Sea 2023

Review: Life Is Beautiful

Review: Life Is Beautiful

Palestinian documentarian Mohamed Jabaly narrates his experience of political limbo, having been stranded in Norway once the 2014 Gaza War commenced  

17/11/2023 | IDFA 2023

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