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

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

Review: The Stranger

Review: The Stranger

VENICE 2021: Ameer Fakher Eldin's debut film sees a struggling former doctor face up to living in the Golan Heights, a place of occupation and patriarchy  

10/09/2021 | Venice 2021 | Giornate degli Autori

Ameer Fakher Eldin  • Director of The Stranger

Interview: Ameer Fakher Eldin • Director of The Stranger

"It's a character study of a man who is a stranger in his own community"

VENICE 2021: Fifty years after the Israeli occupation of the territories of the Golan Heights, the director depicts the inner conflict of a man who desires a different life  

09/09/2021 | Venice 2021 | Giornate degli Autori

Review: A Thousand Fires

Review: A Thousand Fires

Saeed Taji Farouky's documentary tells the intimate story of a Myanma family, set against the epic background of manual oil extraction  

10/08/2021 | Locarno 2021 | Semaine de la Critique

EXCLUSIVE: Trailer for Locarno Semaine de la Critique title A Thousand Fires

EXCLUSIVE: Trailer for Locarno Semaine de la Critique title A Thousand Fires

Saeed Taji Farouky’s new feature-length documentary is a portrait of a family in flux, and a story of intergenerational conflict and compromise  

04/08/2021 | Locarno 2021 | Semaine de la Critique

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