Film

Berlinale 2026: Films play second fiddle to Gaza controversies for the third year running

German politicians and journalists reacted angrily to repeated statements of Palestinian solidarity by Arab and Hollywood filmmakers

Daoud Abdel Sayed: Why the late Egyptian filmmaker was so important

With Bahram Beizai's death, Iranian cinema is orphaned

Hamid Dabashi

The President’s Cake is our favourite movie of 2025. Here are 11 other standouts

The 10 worst Hollywood films by Middle Eastern filmmakers

Israel's genocide in Gaza

Dave Chappelle draws online praise for saying 'I stand with Israel' is code for 'they got me'

Dhurandhar: A Bollywood thriller gives India a win that eluded it on the battlefield

Palestine 36: Annemarie Jacir’s epic is a lesson in anti-Hollywood history

Joe Gill

Shah Rukh Khan: What it means to become a billionaire during a genocide

Azad Essa

Sean Penn turns up in Istanbul to film documentary on Jamal Khashoggi

Shooting a film about a coup in Turkey - then the real shooting started

From Gaza to the moon, Palestinian women take the lead at London film festival

Horror in Beirut: Maskoon film festival triumphs against the odds

Who was Ashraf Marwan? A Netflix film fails to tell us

These are the top Arab films of 2017

Cairo by night: Ahmad Abdalla's latest film takes audiences to the dark side of Egypt

Lights, camera: The Doha Film Institute's reinvention of Arab cinema

Cannes 2018: Reclaiming the Arab narrative one film at a time

A general's daughter: Meet the filmmaker who defied Lebanese censors

Haifa independent film festival: Rejecting the boundaries imposed on Palestinians

Yara Hawari