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29 Jan – 8 Feb 2026

Overview of articles

  • Silence

    Silence is an emotional investigation of sense and senselessness in the conflict over the occupied Golan Heights and the events leading to its loss. I
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  • Back to the Square

    A year after the euphoria on Tahrir Square, the demonstrators’ goals have not even come close to being reached. The country is ruled with an…
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  • Crack

    A traumatic incident has forced an elderly tailor into a crippled existence and the choice only to observe the world from a safe distance.
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  • On the Sand, Under the Sun

    Short documentary about political prisoners struggling to come to terms with haunting memories, produced for the anniversary of the Universal Declarat
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  • The Three Disappearances of Soad Hosni

    A rapturous elegy to a rich and versatile era of film production in Egypt through the work of one of its most revered stars, Soad…
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  • Doors of Fear: El Naddaha

    Doors of Fear is the first horror drama series in the Arab world. Dealing with different folkloric tales of horror from the Egyptian culture, the…
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  • Transparent Evil

    Having travelled to Egypt to complete a commissioned work, the artist and his friend get caught up in the events of the Egyptian revolution.
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  • One Eye Open

    A search for the artist’s roots as he travels to Japan and investigates a world that is partly foreign and fascinating, partly familiar.
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  • Scene Shifts, in Six Movements

    Latest work by Finnish artist Jani Ruscica (retrospective at IFFR 2008) alternately describes locations in words, images and music.
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  • Neon Lamp

    An exceptional debut in which Maher – who spent two years working on this project – gave sound an important role in the telling of…
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