Lebanon is a quiet, at times ominous, presence in A Sad and Beautiful World, an unexpected and moving...
5 JUNE 2026 • By Alex Demyanenko
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
Tamara Stepanyan’s latest documentary, My Armenian Phantoms, interweaves film history with an intimate coming-of-age story.
17 OCTOBER 2025 • By Jim Quilty
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
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
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
Filmmaker Ghassan Salhab presents an immersive study of Lebanese youth, the silent isolation of mortality, and resistance.
16 MAY 2025 • By Jim Quilty
Three documentaries screened in Thessaloniki shed light on conflicts often absent from international media headlines.
28 MARCH 2025 • By Iason Athanasiadis
Roger Assaf's poetic script for Jocelyne Saab's 1982 film about the siege of Beirut puts one in mind...
8 NOVEMBER 2024 • By Roger Assaf
Karim Goury reviews "Tatami," a sports combat film depicting the conflict between suppressive male law and individual female...
11 OCTOBER 2024 • By Karim Goury
The meta-narrative in Frank Herbert's Dune trilogy foresees the modern disaster of never-ending colonialism and a planet destroyed...
5 JULY 2024 • By Ahmed Naji
Viola Shafik addresses the controversy at the 2024 Berlinale, following the screening of a Palestinian-Israeli "solidarity film."
11 MARCH 2024 • By Viola Shafik
