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Reviews‘Thank You For Banking With Us’: London Review
Two sisters strain against Palestine’s patriarchal bonds in this effective Ramallah-set debut
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Reviews‘For Rana’: Busan Review
A circus motorcyclist in Iran is desperate to find a new heart for his ailing daughter
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Reviews‘Of Dogs And Men’: Hamburg Review
Dani Rosenberg’s docufiction captures the aftermath of the October 7, 2023 Hamas attack on Israel
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Reviews‘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
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Reviews‘Aicha’: Venice Review
Mehdi M. Barsaoui directs Fatma Sfar in an electric performance as a Tunisian woman on an unexpected journey of reinvention
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Reviews‘Perfumed With Mint’: Venice Review
A decaying Egyptian city teems with ghosts both literal and metaphorical in this meditative debut
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Reviews‘Happy Holidays’: Venice Review
Scandar Copti follows the Oscar-nominated Ajami with this compelling spliced drama
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Reviews‘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
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Reviews‘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
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Reviews‘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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Reviews‘On Becoming A Guinea Fowl’: Cannes Review
A young Zambian woman confronts long-buried family secrets in Rungano Nyoni’s second feature
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Reviews‘Dahomey’: Berlin Review
The repatriation of stolen treasures to Benin provokes this agile, cerebral documentary by Mati Diop
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Reviews‘Voy! Voy! Voy!’: Rotterdam Review
A desperate man fakes his way onto a Europe-bound blind football team in this Egyptian adventure based on real events
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Reviews‘Shoshana’: Toronto Review
Michael Winterbottom carefully recreates Tel Aviv in the 1930s, where much of the tensions that affect Israel today are starting to bubble over
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Reviews‘Tatami’: Venice Review
An Iran/Israel collaboration results in a first-class bout with politics in this tense judo drama
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Reviews‘Sira’: Berlin Review
A kidnapped woman fights for survival in Apolline Traoré’s north Africa-set Berlin award winner
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Reviews‘The Burdened’: Berlin Review
A struggling couple in Aden face up to hard choices in Amr Gamal’s abortion drama
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Reviews‘The Siren’: Berlin Review
Sepideh Farsi’s arresting animation, set during the Iran-Iraq War, opens the Panorama section at Berlin
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Reviews‘Our Lady Of The Chinese Shop’: Red Sea Review
Several stories intertwine in this bold debut set in Angola’s capital Luanda
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Reviews‘The Other Widow’: Tallinn Review
Tel Aviv-set debut focuses on a secret mistress whose life is silently impacted by the loss of her lover