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Reviews‘No Paradise If You Are Killed By A Woman’ review: Tense, blunt-edged Kurdish war thriller follows a female sniper in Iraq
Halkawt Mustafa’s female-led action drama brings glossy genre mechanics to a story of Kurdish resistance
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Reviews‘Conversation With The Sea’ review: Kamel El Basha anchors Muayad Alayan’s uneven Palestinian drama
A Jerusalem-set mystery turns one man’s private reckoning into a pointed portrait of Palestinian life in Israel
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Reviews‘Citizen Osama’ review: A Palestinian journalist balances war reportage with family life in harrowing Gaza doc
Ahmed Hassouna’s Venice out of competition title has been selected as Palestine’s official Oscar submission
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Reviews‘Furies’ review: George Clooney exec-produces this propulsive female-led Beirut bank-heist caper
Two sisters take on Lebanon’s broken economy in Rami Kodeih’s messy but hugely enjoyable Venice Spotlight title
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Reviews‘House Of The Wind’ review: A tender Cameroonian study of solitude and unexpected kinship
Auguste Bernard Kouemo Yanghu’s debut finds emotional force in an ageing mother’s search for connection
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Reviews‘Falling House’ review: Unsubtle Iranian family drama turns a condemned home into a symbol of patriarchal control
A Tehran family is pushed to breaking point in Mohsen Gharaei’s Venice Horizons premiere
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Reviews‘Concrete Land’ review: Sensitive observational doc follows an exiled Afro-Palestinian-Bedouin family in Jordan
Asmahan Bkerat’s intimate feature was filmed over eight years and premieres at Locarno
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Reviews‘Yesterday The Eye Didn’t Sleep’ review: Poetic, slow-burn debut unfolds within a Bedouin community in Lebanon
Palestinian director Rayakan Mayasi’s first feature premieres in Cannes Un Certain Regard
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Reviews‘Ben’Imana’ review: Evocative debut delivers a haunting tale of post-genocide Rwanda
Marie-Clémentine Dusabejambo’s Un Certain Regard title is set against Rwanda’s post-genocide gacaca courts
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Reviews‘Clarissa’ review: Sophie Okonedo, David Oyelowo anchor bold Lagos-set ‘Mrs Dalloway’ adaptation
The Esiri brothers’ Cannes Directors’ Fortnight title relocate Virginia Woolf’s potent themes to modern Nigeria
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Reviews‘Congo Boy’ review: Central African Republic debut is a warm, humane portrait of survival
Rafiki Fariala draws on his own experiences as a Congolese refugee for this authentic Un Certain Regard title
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Reviews‘Out Laws’ review: Thoughtful doc explores the impact of colonial anti-gay laws in Namibia and beyond
The debut feature of filmmakers Lexi Powner and James Lewis premieres in BFI Flare
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Reviews‘Where To?’ review: A Palestinian cab driver in Berlin connects with his Israeli passenger in delicate, resonant debut
Berlin Perspectives title from Israeli filmmaker Assaf Machnes features strong performances from Ehab Salami and Ido Tako
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Reviews‘Chronicles From The Siege’ review: Arabic-language debut feature is intense tapestry of life, death and courage
Palestinian-Syrian director Abdallah Alkhabtib’s Berlin Perspectives title is fuelled by its performances
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Reviews‘Safe Exit’ review: Mohammed Hammad follows ‘Withered Green’ with spare Egyptian drama
Marwan Waleed anchors a restrained portrait of alienation in Hammad’s second feature
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Reviews‘In A Whisper’ review: Hiam Abbass is magnetic in sensitive Tunisian LGBTQ drama
Lelya Bouzid’s nuanced Berlin competition title is set over six days of mourning
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Reviews‘Variations On A Theme’ review: Rotterdam Tiger winner is intimate South African doc-fiction
Jason Jacobs and Devon Delmar follow ’Carissa’ with community drama set in the country’s Kamiesberge region
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Reviews‘Barni’ review: A missing girl leads to new horizons in ambitious, sentimental Somali debut
Mohammed Sheikh’s feature follows the search for a missing child from a quiet Somali village to the big city
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Reviews‘A Sad And Beautiful World’ review: Lebanon’s Oscar hopeful is appealing, soulful romance
The debut feature from Cyril Aris follows a Lebanese couple over three decades
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Reviews‘Sink’ review: Visually striking Jordanian debut offers authentic depiction of mental illness
The first feature from Screen Arab Star Of Tomorrow Zain Duraie now plays Red Sea competition