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48 articles available in total starting from 02/03/2015. Last article published on 30/08/2025.

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

Lina Soualem  • Director of Bye Bye Tiberias

Interview: Lina Soualem • Director of Bye Bye Tiberias

"I wanted these women to reclaim the sheer complexity of their journeys, their battles and also their contradictions"

VENICE 2023: The director paints the portrait of four generations of Palestininan women who keep their story alive through the sheer strength of their bonds  

08/09/2023 | Venice 2023 | Giornate degli Autori

Review: Bye Bye Tiberias

Review: Bye Bye Tiberias

VENICE 2023: Lina Soualem weaves an expert patchwork documentary following the turbulent fate of the resilient Palestinian women in her family, including her mother Hiam Abbass  

03/09/2023 | Venice 2023 | Giornate degli Autori

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

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

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