Jafar Panahi’s best feature since he was officially banned from filmmaking. The recipient of a video by a woman who by all ...

An extraordinary work of both cinematic and political activism, 5 BROKEN CAMERAS is a deeply personal, first-hand account of ...

A CINEMA OF DISCONTENT features insightful interviews with 12 Iranian filmmakers, including the internationally-acclaimed dir...

Nominated for a Best Foreign Language Film Oscar, AJAMI is a bold crime drama set on the margins of an Arab ghetto. Working w...

A look at Tunisian youth on the eve of the Jasmine Revolution as they are pulled in all directions by conflicting forces: dis...

The complex relationship between an Israeli Secret Service officer and his teenage Palestinian informant. Shuttling back and ...

The century-old conflict in the Middle East continues to play a central role in world politics. And yet, amidst this fierce, ...

At the center of the Middle East conflict, hearts beat in tragic comedy and deadpan irony: a sexy young Palestinian woman def...

In the mountains of Pakistan, a mother and her ten-year-old daughter flee their home on the eve of the girl’s marriage to a...

The critical issues of Iranian cinema are examined by framing several key questions and providing informed responses through ...

A charming tale of a young boy's sexual awakening in Muslim Tunisia. Boughedir's style is sensual and full of joy, celebratin...

Ayat, Salam, and Nariman are three of the participants in The Camera Project, an initiative launched by the Jerusalem-based h...

Internationally acclaimed director Jafar Panahi drives a yellow cab through the vibrant streets of Tehran, picking up a diver...

A powerful documentary that follows the life of iconic Syrian peace activist Ghiyath "Little Gandhi" Matar, a key organizer o...

Clandestinely produced in disavowal of a 20-year filmmaking ban passed down by the Iranian authorities, the scathing MANUSCRI...

After his Sundance award-winning documentary RETURN TO HOMS, Talal Derki returned to his homeland where he gained the trust o...

Omar is accustomed to dodging surveillance bullets to cross the separation wall to visit his secret love Nadia. But occupied ...

The news from the Middle East worsens daily into a nightmare scenario - one eerily foretold in 2012 as two young, unlikely Sy...

An urgent and devastating portrait of life in Palestine, SALT OF THIS SEA is essential viewing. Sixty years after her grandpa...

Italian visual artist Yuri Ancarani’s exquisite documentary, winner of the Filmmaker of the Present award at the 2016 Locar...

Gaza. Synonymous to so many with conflict, destruction and despair but to Mohammed Assaf, and his sister Nour, Gaza is their ...

A film essay on the Iranian New Wave, a film movement which blossomed in the 70s as a protest against a local film industry d...

This clandestine documentary, shot partially on an iPhone and smuggled into France, depicts the day-to-day life of acclaimed ...

A young Israeli ultra-Orthodox man experiences a crisis of faith in this formally daring black-and-white drama that employs b...

Derek Jarman teams with his muse Tilda Swinton and Laurence Olivier, for a spectacular and moving interpretation of composer ...

Having been separated from his father in the chaos of war, Tarek, 11, and his mother Ghaydaa, are amongst this latest wave of...

A young Egyptian filmmaker gains first-hand accounts of corruption and abuse within the security forces from Egyptian police ...