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204 articles available in total starting from 06/05/2010. Last article published on 09/09/2025.

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

Muhammed Hamdy • Director of Perfumed with Mint

Interview: Muhammed Hamdy • Director of Perfumed with Mint

“The movie comes from anger or a sense of bitterness”

VENICE 2024: In his feature debut, the Egyptian director forces a group of men to confront the shadows of their past  

06/09/2024 | Venice 2024 | International Film Critics’ Week

Review: Perfumed with Mint

Review: Perfumed with Mint

VENICE 2024: In his feature debut, Egyptian director Muhammed Hamdy dwells on the notions of anger and pain, and the ways of accepting them  

06/09/2024 | Venice 2024 | International Film Critics’ Week

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

Hind Meddeb  • Director of Sudan, Remember Us

Interview: Hind Meddeb • Director of Sudan, Remember Us

"Sudanese people are very inspiring because they have a passion for freedom"

VENICE 2024: The French director talks about her documentary about the oppression in the African country and the resistance of a group of politically and artistically active twenty-somethings  

03/09/2024 | Venice 2024 | Giornate degli Autori

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