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‘The President’s Cake review’: Quinzaine crowd-pleaser is set in Saddam Hussein’s Iraq
Dir/scr: Hasan Hadi. Iraq/US/Qatar. 2025. 102 minutes.
It could include fairy-tale substances, together with a dangerous lottery, a pet cockerel confidante and kids on a...
First Iraqi film to play at Cannes wins Directors’ Fortnight audience award
The President’s Cake, the primary Iraqi movie to play at Cannes Movie Pageant, has gained the Individuals’s Alternative award within the impartial Administrators’ Fortnight...
‘Mama’ review: A Polish domestic worker has a difficult return home from Israel
Dir/scr: Or Sinai. Israel/Poland/Italy. 2025. 91mins
The emotional complexities of life as a live-in home employee are dropped at the fore in Or Sinai’s character-driven...
’Thank You For Banking With Us!’ scoops top prize at Critics Awards for Arab Films
Laila Abbas’s Thank You For Banking With Us has scooped finest movie on the ninth Critics Awards for Arab Movies, which is able to...
Four features lead nominations for 2025 Critics Awards for Arab Films
Thank You For Banking With Us, All people Loves Touda, Ghost Path and Looking for Haven For Mr. Rambo lead the nominations for the...
‘The Vanishing Point’ review: How Iran’s 1979 revolution unleashed generational trauma in one family
Dir: Bani Khoshnoudi. Iran/US/France. 2025. 103 mins
Remembrance turns into an act of resistance in The Vanishing Level, Bani Khoshnoudi’s deeply private documentary which revisits her...
‘The Vanishing Point’: How Iran’s 1979 revolution unleashed generational trauma in one family
Dir: Bani Khoshnoudi. Iran/US/France. 2025. 103 mins
Remembrance turns into an act of resistance in The Vanishing Level, Bani Khoshnoudi’s deeply private documentary which revisits her...
‘The Vanishing Point’: Iran’s 1979 revolution unleashes generational trauma
Dir: Bani Khoshnoudi. Iran/US/France. 2025. 103 mins
Remembrance turns into an act of resistance in The Vanishing Level, Bani Khoshnoudi’s deeply private documentary which revisits her...
Palestinian co-director of Oscar winner ‘No Other Land’ attacked by settlers, arrested
Hamdan Ballal, the Palestinian co-director of the Oscar-winning documentary No Different Land, has reportedly been attacked by settlers in his village on the West...
Oscar-winning ’No Other Land’ co-director Hamdan Ballal attacked and arrested by Israeli army
Hamdan Ballal, the Palestinian co-director of the Oscar-winning documentary No Different Land, has reportedly been attacked by settlers in his village on the West...