Film & Film Reviews

It Was Just an Accident: A Haunting Tale of Revenge

It Was Just an Accident: A Haunting Tale of Revenge

Jafar Panahi’s film reminds us that vengeance doesn’t stop at borders — it’s seeped into our feeds, our...

5 DECEMBER 2025 • By Alex Demyanenko
Birth of an Occupation: Annemarie Jacir’s Palestine 36

Birth of an Occupation: Annemarie Jacir’s Palestine 36

Annemarie Jacir’s new film is big-tent entertainment, accented by a critical history of Anglo-Zionist collusion between the wars.

31 OCTOBER 2025 • By Jim Quilty
A Love Letter to the Ghosts of Armenian Cinema

A Love Letter to the Ghosts of Armenian Cinema

Tamara Stepanyan’s latest documentary, My Armenian Phantoms, interweaves film history with an intimate coming-of-age story.

17 OCTOBER 2025 • By Jim Quilty
Revolutionary Reissues: Enemy Of The Sun and Leila and the Wolves

Revolutionary Reissues: Enemy Of The Sun and Leila and the Wolves

A re-released poetry collection and forgotten film underscore Palestinian resistance. What do they teach us about unity and...

3 OCTOBER 2025 • By Katie Logan
New Documentaries from Palestine, Sudan, Afghanistan, and Iran

New Documentaries from Palestine, Sudan, Afghanistan, and Iran

New SWANA films respond to genocide and starvation while urging viewers to act beyond passive consumption of the...

12 SEPTEMBER 2025 • By Yassin El-Moudden
Once Upon a Time in Gaza Wants to Be an Indie Western

Once Upon a Time in Gaza Wants to Be an Indie Western

The new feature from the Nasser brothers takes place in the context of Gaza's siege, but well before...

29 AUGUST 2025 • By Karim Goury
From A World Not Ours to a Land Unknown

From A World Not Ours to a Land Unknown

Exiled Palestinian Mahdi Fleifel’s fiction debut "To a Land Unknown" provides a masterful bookend to his documentary on...

13 JUNE 2025 • By Jim Quilty
Victorious Decolonization in the Work of Joyce Joumaa

Victorious Decolonization in the Work of Joyce Joumaa

Lebanese Canadian writer and visual artist Joyce Joumaa’s videos demonstrate that the colonized are not passive recipients of...

6 JUNE 2025 • By Aidan Simardone
Contretemps, a Bold Film on Lebanon’s Crises

Contretemps, a Bold Film on Lebanon’s Crises

Filmmaker Ghassan Salhab presents an immersive study of Lebanese youth, the silent isolation of mortality, and resistance.

16 MAY 2025 • By Jim Quilty
Exile and Hope: Sudanese creatives and the question of home

Exile and Hope: Sudanese creatives and the question of home

Sudanese artists in exile are keeping their identity and heritage alive while they await the chance to return...

2 MAY 2025 • By Ati Metwaly
Gaza, Sudan, Israel/Palestine Documentaries Show in Thessaloniki

Gaza, Sudan, Israel/Palestine Documentaries Show in Thessaloniki

Three documentaries screened in Thessaloniki shed light on conflicts often absent from international media headlines.

28 MARCH 2025 • By Iason Athanasiadis
My Favorite Cake, Iranian Cinema’s Bittersweet Ode to Love

My Favorite Cake, Iranian Cinema’s Bittersweet Ode to Love

Karim Goury reviews the Iranian film, "My Favorite Cake," a celebration of love in the twilight of life,...

17 JANUARY 2025 • By Karim Goury
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