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‘Sun Children’: Venice Review
A Dickensian tale with a Disney feel set in Iran’s bustling metropolis
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‘Honey Cigar’: Venice Review
Stirring coming-of-age drama parallels a woman’s sexual awakening with Algeria’s political adolescence
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‘Gaza Mon Amour’: Venice Review
The Nasser brothers turn their lens on a late-life romance in Gaza featuring Hiam Abbass and Salim Daw
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‘The Death of Cinema and My Father Too’: Cannes 2020 Label Review
Self-reflexive debut from Israel boasts an ambitiously labyrinthine structure
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‘The Art Of Living In Danger’: Sheffield Doc/Fest Review
A look inside the struggle against domestic violence in Iran
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‘The Pageant’: Visions du Réel Review
Behind the scenes of the annual ‘Miss Holocaust Survivor’ competition in Haifa, Israel
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‘There Is No Evil’: Berlin Review
From Iran, director Mohammad Rasoulof orchestrates a cautionary tale in four chapters
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‘Yalda, A Night For Forgiveness’: Sundance Review
Iranian filmmaker Massoud Bakhshi focuses on one woman to highlight wider issues within a patriarchal society
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‘This Is Not A Burial, It’s A Resurrection’: Sundance Review
A striking debut from Lesotho made under Venice’s Biennale College initiative
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‘Chronology’: Review
Striking second feature from Turkey’s Ali Aydin is mid-way through a successful festival run
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‘Just 6.5’: Tokyo Review
Iranian police play a never-ending cat-and-mouse game with the country’s drug dealers in this gripping crime thriller
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‘Coup 53’: London Review
’A sharp-eyed history lesson that unfolds with the pace and fascination of thriller’
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‘Walking With Shadows’: London Review
A wife discovers her husband is gay in this exploration of queer Nigeria
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‘The Cave’: London Review
Feras Fayyad’s award-winning documentary follows a female doctor in an underground hospital in Damascus
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‘143 Sahara Street’: Hamburg Review
The elderly proprietor of an isolated Algerian roadside cafe is the subject of this evocative documentary
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‘Noura’s Dream’: San Sebastian Review
In working-class Tunis, little has changed for women in Hinde Boujemaa’s fiction debut
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‘Africa’: Toronto Review
Oren Gerner turns the camera on his own family for this portrait of an ageing man railing against inconsequence
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‘Hava, Maryam, Aleysha’: Venice Review
With her debut feature, Sahraa Karimi explores the lives of three Afghan women