The New Arab provides an exclusive preview of the MENA region’s top entries at the Cairo Film Festival, with a spotlight on ...

In a short film set in Lebanon, where marital rape is not a crime, filmmaker Farah Shaer tackles one of Arab society's ...

Palestine 36 arrives in the Bay Area this week to kick off the Arab Film Festival with two screenings on Nov. 6 at San ...

Asharq Al Awsat Armed with his camera, Oscar-winning Palestinian filmmaker Basel Adra has spent years in the occupied West Bank documenting what he describes as the impunity Israelis enjoy in their ...

Also showing are "The Little Sister," a Cannes-honored drama about the identity struggle of a French-Algerian lesbian ...

Look for Arab cinema and lots of docs at festivals this week. First up is the always impressively programmed Arab Film ...

Eighty-six films have been assigned to voters in the Oscars’ Best International Feature Film category, one more than qualified in last year’s race. The assignments came in emails obtained by TheWrap ...

Indian director Muzaffar Ali‘s freshly restored 1981 classic “Umrao Jaan” will be shown outside the country for the first time at Saudi Arabia’s upcoming Red Sea International Film Festival, which has ...

Ameer Fakher Eldin’s “Yunan” has won this year’s Arab Critics’ Award for European Films. The award, now in its seventh edition, is presented by European Film Promotion in collaboration with the Arab ...

Georges Khabbaz stars alongside German film legend Hanna Schygulla in Ameer Fakher Eldin’s melancholic drama about an exiled Syrian writer who travels to a North Sea island, contemplating suicide. By ...