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189 articles available in total starting from 06/05/2010. Last article published on 10/06/2025.

Amel Guellaty • Director of Where the Wind Comes From

Interview: Amel Guellaty • Director of Where the Wind Comes From

“Road movies mostly use handheld cameras and natural light, but I wanted to go somewhere else that takes on the rules of the imagination”

The Tunisian writer-director talks about blending the road-movie format with a free-spirited coming-of-age tale set across different parts of the country  

27/01 | Sundance 2025 | World Cinema Dramatic Competition

Yunan to compete for the Golden Bear at the Berlinale

Yunan to compete for the Golden Bear at the Berlinale

Syrian director Ameer Fakher Eldin’s movie, the only Arab film in Berlin’s main competition, examines themes of displacement and renewal as part of his “Homeland” trilogy  

24/01 | Production | Funding | Germany/Canada/Italy/Palestine/Qatar/Jordan/Saudi Arabia

Review: From Ground Zero

Review: From Ground Zero

Shortlisted for the International Feature Film Oscar and composed of 22 shorts by as many Palestinian directors, the movie offers up a poignant kaleidoscope of life in the Gaza Strip  

21/01 | Films | Reviews | Palestine/France/Qatar/Jordan/Switzerland

Review: MA – Cry of Silence

Review: MA – Cry of Silence

The Maw Naing’s film merges class conflicts with protest against the military junta, inspired by women-led factory uprisings that occurred in 2012  

09/12/2024 | Marrakech 2024

Kamal Aljafari • Director of A Fidai Film

Interview: Kamal Aljafari • Director of A Fidai Film

"This film is not only about Palestine, but about any place that has been occupied and any people subjected to oppression"

The Palestinian director talks about his feature built from archival images looted by the Israeli army that the filmmaker reworked to express the reality of oppression his people are experiencing  

28/11/2024 | IDFA 2024

Najiba Noori, Rasul Noori • Director and co-director of Writing Hawa

Interview: Najiba Noori, Rasul Noori • Director and co-director of Writing Hawa

“It’s not just my mum's story; it’s also the story of so many other women who have been through the same experiences”

The director and co-director, also siblings, describe the shared intentions behind their film, a personal look at their mother’s life and three generations of women in Afghanistan  

27/11/2024 | IDFA 2024

Review: Writing Hawa

Review: Writing Hawa

Najiba and Rasul Noori leverage their own subjectivity to create a tremendously powerful work on emancipation, freedom and opportunity for women in Afghanistan  

26/11/2024 | IDFA 2024

Review: A Fidai Film

Review: A Fidai Film

Kamal Aljafari manipulates and reassembles archive footage from the Palestine Research Center, which was seized by Israel in 1982, to highlight its propagandistic use by the State of Israeli  

15/11/2024 | IDFA 2024

EXCLUSIVE: Poster for IDFA International Competition title Writing Hawa

EXCLUSIVE: Poster for IDFA International Competition title Writing Hawa

Shot over the course of five years, Najiba Moori’s documentary follows three generations of Hazara women in Afghanistan  

06/11/2024 | IDFA 2024

Review: Aïcha

Review: Aïcha

VENICE 2024: Tunisian director Mehdi Barsaoui’s thriller follows a young woman who bravely seeks a new identity after surviving a bus crash  

09/09/2024 | Venice 2024 | Orizzonti

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