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
