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28 Jan – 7 Feb 2027

Overview of articles

  • Burning Birds

    Eight kids, no husband, no money: how can a woman alone in rural Sri Lanka keep her head above water in a situation like this?…
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  • Cactus Flower

    Struggling actress Aida and bourgeois lady Samiha suddenly find themselves on the streets of a tense Cairo. Smooth-operating street urchin Yassin lend
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  • La última tierra

    In precise, unhurried compositions of image and sound, Lamar’s feature debut portrays a man and his dying wife, living in a remote hut in the…
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  • The Garbage Helicopter

    Absurd road movie about three idle twenty-somethings who have to return an antique clock (is it broken or not?) to their grandmother. Highlights of Sw
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  • The Idol

    This heart-warming feature by Abu-Assad (Oscar-nominated for Paradise Now and Omar) tells the true story of Palestinian singer Mohammad Assaf, whose w
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  • Lamb

    A realistic children’s film with mature undertones. About a boy who grows up without parents in the harsh mountains of northern Ethiopia, but al
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  • Grandma, a Thousand Times

    A poetic documentary from Beirut about the memories of the filmmaker’s grandmother and her husbandry. A portrait of a fascinating woman, but also of L
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  • Hawi

    All the while improvising, El Batout shot this mosaic film set in Alexandria, where everybody is looking for something or someone. A prisoner is relea
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  • Cocote

    In the Dominican capital, Alberto, a gardener and evangelical Christian, hears that his father has been murdered in his birthplace by a powerful man.
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  • Poisonous Roses

    In this intriguing, skittish portrait of poverty in today’s Egypt, the camera follows 22-year-old Saqr and his 28-year-old meddlesome sister, Ta
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