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‘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...
‘The Settlement’ review: Egyptian debut is a bleak and dispiriting revenge thriller
Dir/scr: Mohamed Rashad. Egypt/France/Germany/Qatar/Saudi Arabia. 2025. 93mins
In a bleak and lawless nook of Alexandria, Egypt, a delinquent 23-year-old son is pulled again into the...
‘Cutting Through Rocks’: Sundance Review
Dir/scr: Sara Khaki, Mohammadreza Eyni Iran/Netherlands/USA/Germany/Qatar/Chile/Canada. 2025. 95mins
Chopping By Rocks tracks the heroic struggles of native girl Sara Shaverdi to change the normal mindset of...
‘From Ground Zero’: Review
Dirs. Reema Mahmoud, Muhammad al-Sharif et al. Palestine/France/Qatar/Jordan 2024. 113mins
A 21-film anthology on on a regular basis life below bombing in Gaza, From Floor Zero presents a vivid vary...
‘The Fourth Wall’: Marrakech Review
Dir. David Oelhoffen. France/Luxembourg/Belgium 2024. 116mins
French drama The Fourth Wall muses on the connection between theatre and political actuality, however the titular partition largely stays intact in a...
Red Sea Souk awards over $900,000 in industry prizes
Saudi Arabia’s Purple Sea Worldwide Movie Competition distributed over $900,000 in prizes at its Souk business awards.
The largest award, the $75,000 Purple Sea Souk...
Terrorism drama ‘Red Path’ takes top awards at Red Sea film festival 2024
Tunisian drama Purple Path, directed by Lotfi Achour, scooped the Golden Yusr for finest movie and the prize for finest director on the 4th...