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

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

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

Basil Khalil • Director of A Gaza Weekend

Interview: Basil Khalil • Director of A Gaza Weekend

“I think with comedy, you can reach people who wouldn't otherwise want to hear stories from a place with such tough issues”

In his first feature, the London-based Palestinian director parodies the situation in Gaza by crafting a satirical and irreverent comedy  

19/09/2022 | Toronto 2022 | Discovery

Ahmed Yassin Al Daradji • Director of Hanging Gardens

Interview: Ahmed Yassin Al Daradji • Director of Hanging Gardens

“I think the new generation will accept this film; the radicals will be upset”

VENICE 2022: Inspired by De Sica’s Bicycle Thieves, the Iraqi director takes a look at his “unbalanced” home country  

14/09/2022 | Venice 2022 | Orizzonti Extra

Review: Hanging Gardens

Review: Hanging Gardens

VENICE 2022: A spectacular find among the rubble of post-war Baghdad causes disruption, unrest and hilarity in Ahmed Yassin Al-Daradji’s film  

12/09/2022 | Venice 2022 | Orizzonti Extra

Review: Mediterranean Fever

Review: Mediterranean Fever

CANNES 2022: Maha Haj's unlikely buddy-buddy movie is a delightful comedy about depression  

25/05/2022 | Cannes 2022 | Un Certain Regard

Review: Eleven Days in May

Review: Eleven Days in May

Michael Winterbottom and Mohammed Sawwaf make a documentary about some of the children who died during Israel’s bombardment of Gaza in May 2021  

05/05/2022 | Films | Reviews | UK/Palestine

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