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‘Thank You For Banking With Us’: London Review 4s4329
Two sisters strain against Palestine’s patriarchal bonds in this effective Ramallah-set debut
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‘For Rana’: Busan Review 3vm13
A circus motorcyclist in Iran is desperate to find a new heart for his ailing daughter
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‘Of Dogs And Men’: Hamburg Review 2z44t
Dani Rosenberg’s docufiction captures the aftermath of the October 7, 2023 Hamas attack on Israel
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‘Don’t Let’s Go To The Dogs Tonight’: Toronto Review 422l2d
Actor Embeth Davidtz makes her directorial debut with this adaption of a memoir set in racist 1980s Rhodesia
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‘Aicha’: Venice Review 3f633g
Mehdi M. Barsaoui directs Fatma Sfar in an electric performance as a Tunisian woman on an unexpected journey of reinvention
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‘Perfumed With Mint’: Venice Review 5h6d67
A decaying Egyptian city teems with ghosts both literal and metaphorical in this meditative debut
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‘Happy Holidays’: Venice Review 3j6a5r
Scandar Copti follows the Oscar-nominated Ajami with this compelling spliced drama
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‘All The Mountains Give’: Edinburgh Review 256fl
Kurdish smugglers eke out an existence in the Iran/Iraq borderlands in this impressive documentary filmed over six years
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‘Searching For Amani’: Raindance Review 2d346r
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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‘The Seed Of The Sacred Fig’: Cannes Review 1q5s5l
Mohammad Rasoulof delivers a flawed but urgent exposure of the societal tensions within Iran
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‘On Becoming A Guinea Fowl’: Cannes Review 2s5f4l
A young Zambian woman confronts long-buried family secrets in Rungano Nyoni’s second feature
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‘Dahomey’: Berlin Review 502071
The repatriation of stolen treasures to Benin provokes this agile, cerebral documentary by Mati Diop
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‘Voy! Voy! Voy!’: Rotterdam Review 6f504a
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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‘Shoshana’: Toronto Review 434g6z
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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‘Tatami’: Venice Review 36153h
An Iran/Israel collaboration results in a first-class bout with politics in this tense judo drama
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‘Sira’: Berlin Review 4u2p6h
A kidnapped woman fights for survival in Apolline Traoré’s north Africa-set Berlin award winner
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‘The Burdened’: Berlin Review 34602c
A struggling couple in Aden face up to hard choices in Amr Gamal’s abortion drama
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‘The Siren’: Berlin Review 311d6h
Sepideh Farsi’s arresting animation, set during the Iran-Iraq War, opens the Panorama section at Berlin
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‘Our Lady Of The Chinese Shop’: Red Sea Review 2b1j2m
Several stories intertwine in this bold debut set in Angola’s capital Luanda
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‘The Other Widow’: Tallinn Review 5t1r5g
Tel Aviv-set debut focuses on a secret mistress whose life is silently impacted by the loss of her lover