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‘From Ground Zero’: Review
Oscar-shortlisted documentary presents 22 sobering shorts on everyday life in wartorn Gaza
‘Snow White’: Red Sea Review
Sensitive, big-hearted Cairo-set drama looks set to be a breakout crowd-pleaser
‘Seeking Haven For Mr Rambo’: Red Sea Review
Promising Egyptian debut draws on the powerful bond between one man and his dog
‘The Fourth Wall’: Marrakech Review
Laurent Lafitte stars in this period literary drama set against the backdrop of the Lebanon conflict
‘Pink Lady’: Tallinn Review
Sensitive portrait of a marriage under strain in Jerusalem’s Hasidic Jewish community
‘Writing Hawa’: IDFA Review
IDFA breakout charts one Afghan mother’s quest to educate herself - just as the Taliban rolls into Kabul
‘Spring Came On Laughing’: Cairo Review
Heightened Cairo-set melodrama features five tales of fracturing female relationships
‘Passing Dreams’: Cairo Review
Cairo opens with a defiantly upbeat Palestinian road movie about a young boy and his missing pigeon
‘Reading Lolita In Tehran’: Tallinn Review
Golshifteh Farahani plays a literary professor trying to stem the tide of repression in revolutionary Iran
‘Red Path’: Thessaloniki Review
A Tunisian teenager encounters violent extremism in this drama based on the 2015 killing of Mabrouk Soltani
‘Thank You For Banking With Us’: London Review
Two sisters strain against Palestine’s patriarchal bonds in this effective Ramallah-set debut
‘For Rana’: Busan Review
A circus motorcyclist in Iran is desperate to find a new heart for his ailing daughter
‘Of Dogs And Men’: Hamburg Review
Dani Rosenberg’s docufiction captures the aftermath of the October 7, 2023 Hamas attack on Israel
‘Don’t Let’s Go To The Dogs Tonight’: Toronto Review
Actor Embeth Davidtz makes her directorial debut with this adaption of a memoir set in racist 1980s Rhodesia
‘Aicha’: Venice Review
Mehdi M. Barsaoui directs Fatma Sfar in an electric performance as a Tunisian woman on an unexpected journey of reinvention
‘Perfumed With Mint’: Venice Review
A decaying Egyptian city teems with ghosts both literal and metaphorical in this meditative debut
‘Happy Holidays’: Venice Review
Scandar Copti follows the Oscar-nominated Ajami with this compelling spliced drama
‘All The Mountains Give’: Edinburgh Review
Kurdish smugglers eke out an existence in the Iran/Iraq borderlands in this impressive documentary filmed over six years
‘Searching For Amani’: Raindance Review
Doc follows a 13 year-old boy’s quest to track down the murderers of his father in Kenya’s Laikipia county
‘The Seed Of The Sacred Fig’: Cannes Review
Mohammad Rasoulof delivers a flawed but urgent exposure of the societal tensions within Iran
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