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Sep 11, 2020 · From groundbreaking documentaries to movies that spark social change, the Middle East's filmmakers are rightly being recognised by the Academy Awards. Here are ten modern Arab films...
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May 14, 2024 · Here’s our pick of the top 5 Arabic-language films at the 2023 Cannes Film Festival. Which one are you looking forward to watching? 🤩1. Four Daughters (dir....
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Jun 30, 2020 · The collection, which includes a number of categories such as “Box Office Hits”, “Oscar Submissions”, “Record It” and “Short and Straight to the Point”, is a definitive guide to the best Arab films ever made.
- Black Medusa
- Souad
- The Stranger
- A Tale of Love and Desire
- Miguel's War
- Hit The Road
- Memory Box
- The Sea Ahead
- Feathers
- Mariner of The Mountains
Tunisian pair Youssef Chebbi and Ismael's debut feature is a jolting journey into the heart of darkness; a complex, enterprising rumination on violence, feminism, and sex that doubles as a panorama of the lawless metropolis of Tunis. A reimagining of Abel Ferrara's cult classic Ms .45, Black Medusasees its enigmatic vigilante heroine (Nour Hajri) e...
The Cannes-nominated sophomore feature by Egyptian director Ayten Amin is the most authentic depiction of Egyptian women since Hala Lotfy's Coming Forth By Day(2012). Set in the densely populated city of Zagazig in lower Egypt, a region rarely visited in cinema, young starlet Bassant Ahmed is the eponymous teenage girl who leads a double life as ve...
The first film shot in the occupied-Golan Heights and the debut feature by Golan native Ameer Fakher Eldin doubles as a character study of broken masculinity and a haunting meditation on displacement, disorientation and dismembered identity. Palestinian star Ashraf Barhom, in arguably the finest Arab performance of 2021, is the Russian-educated unl...
Hot on the heels of her 2015 Venice winner, As I Open My Eyes, Tunisian filmmaker Leyla Bouzid ups her game with her latest effort, a shrewd, entertaining romantic drama centred on an 18-year-old conservative French Algerian and his free-spirited Tunisian college mate. The pair's whirlwind romance is a scratchboard for myriad ideas on the relations...
A double winner at this year's Berlinale, Lebanese Eliane Raheb's searing documentary is another watershed moment in the defiant course of queer Arab cinema. The titular subject is a middle-aged Lebanese man whose flamboyant gay lifestyle as an interpreter in Spain conceals a tormented past as ex-Phalangist soldier and self-flagellating Catholic. W...
Winner of London Film Fest's best-film prize, Hit the Roadis a debut feature by Iranian Panah Panahi, son of the award-winning filmmaker Jafar. The region's biggest crowd-pleaser of the year, the road movie unfolds over the course of a single day and follows a middle-class family of four as they bid farewell to their older brother, who has to leave...
A hit with both critics and audiences, the sixth feature by Lebanese visual artist and filmmaker duo Joana Hadjithomas and Khalil Joreige (I Want to See, The Lebanese Rocket Society) is a deeply affectionate, wistful postcard to the freewheeling Beirut that once was but no longer exists. Set between a present-day Montreal and war-torn Beirut of the...
If Memory Boxis a misty postcard to the lost Beirut, Ely Dagher's debut feature is its memento mori. Rising star Manal Issa (the co-star of Memory Box) is Jana, a college dropout who suddenly returns to Beirut for reasons that are never revealed. Alienated from her family and immediate surroundings, she rekindles a past romance as she struggles to ...
After making history by becoming the first Arab film to win the Grand Prize at Cannes' Semaine de la Critique competition, what was projected to be the most celebrated Egyptian film of 2021 rapidly became the most contentious and derided film of the year. Egyptian Omar El Zohairy's debut feature boasts one of the most original premises in recent ye...
The stock of acclaimed Brazilian-Algerian filmmaker Karim Ainouz has gone up exponentially with the massive success of his Cannes winner, Invisible Life(2019). Now in this third decade of filmmaking, Ainouz has made a habit of constantly switching gears between documentary and fiction. While no stranger in permeating his films with autobiographical...
Jan 3, 2022 · Dubai: From award-winning magical realism to a hard-hitting refugee thriller, read on for the films from Arab directors that grabbed our attention last year.
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Sep 9, 2020 · Since 2012, the Arab British Council-led film festival, SAFAR, has been putting the spotlight on cinema from the Arab world. But with the pandemic still yet to slow down, the film festival is of course, running online this year.
