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Jacir’s lavish period epic is set against the background of Palestine’s 1936 Arab Revolt against British rule
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Reviews‘One Woman One Bra’ review: A single woman fights for her rights in spirited Kenyan drama
Vincho Nchogu’s feature debut plays London’s First Feature Competition after premiering in Venice
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Reviews‘Desert Warrior’ review: Visually stunning Saudi Arabian epic lacks an emotional core
Antony Mackie and Sir Ben Kingsley star in Rupert Wyatt’s 7th century Arabian drama
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Reviews‘Unidentified’ review: Haifaa Al Mansour’s Saudi thriller sees a grieving woman turn detective
The Saudi Arabian director reteams with star Mila Alzahrani, who plays a true-crime enthusiast investigating a murder
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Reviews‘Without Permission’ review: An exiled filmmaker returns to Iran in Hassan Nazer’s bold docudrama
Real Iranian children discuss love and hope in the British-Iranian director’s Busan Competition feature
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Reviews‘Divine Comedy’ review: Ali Asgari skewers Iranian cultural restrictions in witty satire
Charming performances carry Asgari’s fifth feature about a fictional director attempting to screen his latest film in Tehran
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Reviews‘Calle Malaga’ review: Carmen Maura stars in Maryam Touzani’s tame Tangier-set domestic drama
Moroccan filmmaker Touzani follows ‘The Blue Caftan’ with a predictable story about finding things to live for in old age
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Reviews‘Bidad’ review: A female singer fights to be heard in potent Tehran-set drama
Iranian filmmaker Soheil Beiraghi’s fourth feature premieres in Karlovy Vary competition
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Reviews‘Woman And Child’ review: Saeed Roustaee drama heaps misfortune on an Iranian widow
Parinaz Izadyar stars in overwrought Cannes Competition title
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Reviews‘It Was Just An Accident’ review: Jafar Panahi confronts the Iranian injustice system head-on
Cannes Competition title sees a traffic accident spark a series of devastating events
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Reviews‘Aisha Can’t Fly Away’ review: A Cairo careworker finds herself caught up in local gang tensions
Morad Mostafa’s feature debut mixes drama and magical realism
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Reviews‘Mama’ review: A Polish domestic worker has a difficult return home from Israel
Writer/director Or Sinai’s composed character study is split between two countries, like its central character
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Reviews‘The President’s Cake review’: Quinzaine crowd-pleaser is set in Saddam Hussein’s Iraq
A young girl, a scene-stealing cockerel and a culinary challenge fuel Hasan Hadi’s winning 1990s-set story
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Reviews‘The Vanishing Point’ review: How Iran’s 1979 revolution unleashed generational trauma in one family
Their memories become an act of resistance in Visions du Reel ‘Burning Lights’ winner
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Reviews‘Ancestral Visions Of The Future’ review: Intricate visual poem from exiled Lesotho filmmaker
Lemohang Mosese follows up his 2019 arthouse hit ’This Is Not A Burial’
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Reviews‘The Settlement’ review: Egyptian debut is a bleak and dispiriting revenge thriller
Mohamed Rashad’s Perspectives title has a ’grim inevitability’
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Reviews‘Khartoum’: Sundance Review
Five displaced Sudanese citizens re-enact their experiences in this immersive documentary
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Reviews‘Cutting Through Rocks’: Sundance Review
One woman takes on the patriarchy in a small Iranian village
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Reviews‘How To Build A Library’: Sundance Review
The restoration of a fading colonial-era library in Kenya proves to be a touchpoint for the country’s issues