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29 Jan – 8 Feb 2026

Overview of articles

  • Port of Memory

    Once a thriving Palestinian port city, Jaffa has now become an extension of Tel Aviv. Aljafari offers a subtle portrait and memoir of a disappearing…
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  • Halal Love (and Sex)

    A couple in love or actually divorced, a husband and children who ask too much of one woman, and two girls who worry about where…
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  • As I Open My Eyes

    Part of IFFR White Nights on Saturday 16 July at 21:15The socially critical lyrics of a Tunisian underground band reinforce the story of this strong…
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  • Much Loved

    An intimate and candid drama about the life of prostitutes in Marrakesh. Once again Ayouch (Les cheveaux de Dieu) uncovers a reality that some people
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  • The Cow Farm

    Portrait of a Syrian farmer, the filmmaker’s cousin who, in spite of the war, tries to live his daily life.
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  • Honey and Old Cheese

    Hassan (17) prepares to leave his mountain village in Morocco. He is going to his father in the Netherlands. But how do you leave your…
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  • Full Contact

    An introverted soldier enters his own tormented subconscious, respectively portrayed as an island and a boxing school, desperately looking for full co
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  • The Digger

    In the desert, Sultan Zeib Khan makes his rounds of the ruins of a Neolithic necropolis. Amid the tombs, the vastness of the desert is…
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  • Deseos

    Fictional correspondence between a Columbian and a Lebanese woman demonstrates how laws and religion determine the dominant discourse on sexuality.
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  • The Sky Trembles and the Earth Is Afraid and the Two Eyes Are Not Brothers

    In a film as mysterious as its title suggests, Ben Rivers portrays making a film as an exhausting and endless odyssey. Even though Rivers’ colleague,
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