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The New Arab Meets: Farshad Hashemi's metafictional debut reflects on the restrictive freedoms of Iranian women, told through a playful, political lens.

Film review: The day-to-day struggle of four families in Beirut's Sabra and Shatila neighbourhood is a demeaning, self-aggrandizing product of Western cinema.

Asmae El Moudir's documentary Mother of All Lies is the Moroccan entry at the 2024 Oscars and features a complex plot that resurrects family secrets and an episode of violence abandoned amidst the ashes of the past.

Film Review: Psychological tension is ratcheted and released in Afef Ben Mahmoud and Khalil Benkirane’s dreamlike feature, where physical movement says more than words.

The New Arab Meets: Nadia Fares, whose documentary Big Little Women premiered at the Swiss Panorama of the Locarno Film Festival. It features generations of Egyptian women who oppose patriarchy but also juxtaposes popular, global ideas of feminism.