Film Archives

7 August, 2023 • Karim Goury

As she nears the end of her pregnancy, Itto and her in-laws find their lives turned upside down by a supernatural event.

Daniele Rugo's documentary investigates Lebanon's devastating civil war and ruminates on the conflict's unmarked mass graves.

2 July, 2023 • Ola Mustapha

In Ola Mustapha's new story, a man falls for the seduction of a film and it becomes the blueprint for love, life, and even death.

26 June, 2023 • Dima Hamdan

Journalist and filmmaker Dima Hamdan talks to the young Syrian director of the documentary "All Roads Lead to More."

4 June, 2023 • Karim Goury

Karim Goury reviews Ali Cherri's haunting feature film The Dam, set in Sudan before the outbreak of the war this year.

Iason Athanasiadis reviews the film of a migrant story set in Greece that has just been nominated for 17 Greek Cinema Academy Awards.

1 May, 2023 • Meera Santhanam

Lebanon's garbage crisis inspired a futurist film but the 2020 Port Explosion made it a contemporary dystopia.

10 April, 2023 • Malu Halasa

Malu Halasa talks to the director of a new documentary exposing the cruelty of Iran's Islamic regime.

2 April, 2023 • Sophia Al-Maria

Author of "The Girl Who Fell From the Sky," Sophia Al-Maria reimagines the future of the Gulf region where she grew up.

2 April, 2023 • Suzannah Mirghani

Doha-based filmmaker Suzannah Mirghani profiles prolific DFI veteran film prof Rithy Panh.

Laura Silvia Battaglia, on the set of Hanging Gardens, explores the burgeoning Iraqi film scene in Baghdad.

20 March, 2023 • Karim Goury

Franco-Egyptian filmmaker Karim Goury reviews the new feature film from Franco-Israeli director Michael Boganim.

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