Tamara Stepanyan’s latest documentary, My Armenian Phantoms, interweaves film history with an intimate coming-of-age story.
17 OCTOBER 2025 • By Jim Quilty
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 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
Karim Goury reviews the Iranian film, "My Favorite Cake," a celebration of love in the twilight of life,...
17 JANUARY 2025 • By Karim Goury
Karim Goury reviews "Tatami," a sports combat film depicting the conflict between suppressive male law and individual female...
11 OCTOBER 2024 • By Karim Goury
A bleak and sobering account for those who may still have wanted to believe in the enlightening power...
4 OCTOBER 2024 • By Viola Shafik
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
Brittany Landorf reviews the first major film of director Asmae El Moudir, Morocco’s entry for the 2024 Academy...
3 MAY 2024 • By Brittany Landorf
