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  • Yalda, A Night For Forgiveness
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    ‘Yalda, A Night For Forgiveness’: Sundance Review 4yj6

    2020-01-27T05:59:00Z 454el

    Iranian filmmaker Massoud Bakhshi focuses on one woman to highlight wider issues within a patriarchal society

  • This Is Not A Burial, It's A Resurrection
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    ‘This Is Not A Burial, It’s A Resurrection’: Sundance Review 3z6w3o

    2020-01-25T00:29:00Z

    A striking debut from Lesotho made under Venice’s Biennale College initiative

  • Chronology
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    ‘Chronology’: Review 343xm

    2020-01-08T11:00:00Z

    Striking second feature from Turkey’s Ali Aydin is mid-way through a successful festival run

  • metri-shesho-nim
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    ‘Just 6.5’: Tokyo Review 6c4ne

    2019-10-28T10:03:00Z

    Iranian police play a never-ending cat-and-mouse game with the country’s drug dealers in this gripping crime thriller

  • Coup 53 Credit_CHRIS_MORPHET
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    ‘Coup 53’: London Review 5syk

    2019-10-10T10:21:00Z

    ’A sharp-eyed history lesson that unfolds with the pace and fascination of thriller’

  • Walking With Shadows
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    ‘Walking With Shadows’: London Review 3n2g3z

    2019-10-09T22:45:00Z

    A wife discovers her husband is gay in this exploration of queer Nigeria

  • the cave c doha film institute
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    ‘The Cave’: London Review 1b2j27

    2019-10-08T16:30:00Z

    Feras Fayyad’s award-winning documentary follows a female doctor in an underground hospital in Damascus

  • 143 Sahara Street
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    ‘143 Sahara Street’: Hamburg Review 2pt6m

    2019-09-25T10:02:00Z

    The elderly proprietor of an isolated Algerian roadside cafe is the subject of this evocative documentary

  • Nouras Dream
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    ‘Noura’s Dream’: San Sebastian Review 54q3i

    2019-09-21T20:17:00Z

    In working-class Tunis, little has changed for women in Hinde Boujemaa’s fiction debut

  • 'Africa'
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    ‘Africa’: Toronto Review 5u3t5q

    2019-09-08T21:52:00Z

    Oren Gerner turns the camera on his own family for this portrait of an ageing man railing against inconsequence

  • hava-maryam-ayesha (1)
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    ‘Hava, Maryam, Aleysha’: Venice Review k3v58

    2019-09-06T12:15:00Z

    With her debut feature, Sahraa Karimi explores the lives of three Afghan women

  • moffie_movies
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    ‘Moffie’: Venice Review 4y1x5e

    2019-09-04T14:45:00Z

    A young South African man struggles to hide his homosexuality in 1980s military service

  • bik-eneich-un-fils
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    ‘A Son’: Venice Review 6y715e

    2019-09-03T15:05:00Z

    Tense family drama set in Tunisia in 2011

  • PerfectCandidate_0HERO
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    ‘The Perfect Candidate’: Venice Review 6c6o1p

    2019-08-29T14:45:00Z

    Director Haifaa Al Mansour returns to her native Saudia Arabia for this story about an aspiring female politician

  • 'Adam'
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    'Adam': Cannes Review 3d4y4w

    2019-05-20T13:07:00Z

    A deceptively slender story marks an accomplished debut from Maryan Touzani

  • Papicha
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    'Papicha': Cannes Reviews 4n3oe

    2019-05-17T14:18:00Z

    Mounia Meddour’s impressive debut feature about a free-spirited student is set in Algeria in the 1990s

  • orphanage
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    ‘The Orphanage’: Review 3l5y3s

    2019-05-17T12:20:00Z

    A teenage boy in Afghanistan is sent to a Russian-run facility in this Bollywood-inspired follow-up to ’Wolf And Sheep’

  • atlantics
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    'Atlantics': Cannes Review 1x145a

    2019-05-16T15:44:00Z

    Intense debut from French/Senegalese director Mati Diop strikes an intriguing note in Competition

  • For Sama
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    'For Sama': Cannes Review 7226x

    2019-05-16T06:00:00Z

    Compelling documentary shot under al-Assad’s bombing of Aleppo is also heading to Cannes

  • THE UNKNOWN SAINT (c) Le Moindre Geste - Altamar films
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    'The Unknown Saint': Cannes Review 572p1x

    2019-05-15T12:00:00Z

    Alaa Eddine Aljem’s debut is a calling card for the young Moroccan director