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‘Becoming’: Cairo/Red Sea Review 5l483f
All-female anthology takes a sparky driver’s seat approach to life in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia
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‘The Stranger’: Cairo Review j2o3j
Palestine’s submission to the international Oscar category is set in the disputed Golan Heights
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‘After A Revolution’: IDFA Review 262w5o
Two siblings on opposing sides of the Libyan civil war cope with its aftermath in different ways
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‘Taamaden’: IDFA Review 3p4t1e
Seydou Cisse’s economic migrants take a dangerous route from Mali to Valencia
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‘When Pomengranates Howl’: Tallinn Review 1x1k27
A nine-year-old boy dreams of stardom in this heartfelt Afghan drama
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‘The Alleys’: London Review 3w1s3k
Bassel Ghandour’s debut juggles tones and storylines for a labyrinthine portrait of a Jordanian neighbourhood
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‘The Absent Director’: Busan Review 135hn
An audacious single-shot drama that follows an Iranian theater company staging an experimental ‘Macbeth’
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‘Asteroid’: Busan Review 1n2u5k
Mehdi Hoseinivand Aalipour’s affectionate first film observes the tender bonds of one Iranian family
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‘Costa Brava, Lebanon’: Venice Review 5c5g1i
A terrific debut from Mounia Akl set in a Lebanese mountain idyll – until the landfill arrives next door
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‘Good Madam’: Toronto Review 304v68
Jenna Cato Bass examines the horror of servitude in South Africa’s affluent gated communities
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‘Huda’s Salon’: Toronto Review b725p
Hany Abu-Assad sets the stage for his political thriller in a Bethelem beauty parlour
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‘You Resemble Me’: Venice Review l10n
Spike Lee and Jonze produce this debut, hybrid feature about the the French radical Islamist Hasna Ait Boulahcen
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‘Republic Of Silence’: Venice Review 192b4f
A vivid, emotionally-charged insider view of conflict and displacement from Syria’s Diana El Jeiroudi
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‘Amira’: Venice Review 581r44
Mohamed Diab’s film interrogates the status of a Palestinian teenager whose identity is suddenly thrown into question
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‘Indemnity’: Fantasia Review 6r6s4k
A wrongfully accused man is chased by cops and mercenaries in this paranoid political thriller
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‘Mariner Of The Mountains’: Cannes Review 2z6u68
Smooth sailing for Brazil’s Karim Ainouz as he traces his family’s recent past back to Algeria
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‘Casablanca Beats’: Cannes Review 555k6b
A vibrant musical from Nabil Ayouch, shot over two years at the cultural centre he founded
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‘Feathers’: Cannes Review 4y4t3e
Unsettling, wry drama/comedy from Egypt is the winner of the 2021 Critics’ Week top prize at Cannes
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‘Europa’: Cannes Review 155y3j
An Iraqi refugee desperate for a new life attempts to outrun bloodthirsty Turkish ‘migrant hunters’
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‘Neptune Frost’: Cannes Review 1p2c3q
Cyber-musical from Rwanda showing in Directors’ Fortnight displays defiant and dizzying originality
