The Burdened: Yemen’s struggle for survival told through cinema
Amr Gamal’s “The Burdened” is a story of sacrifice and survival that captures Yemen’s grim reality, where poverty often proves ...
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Yellow Bus: A mother’s quest for truth in the Gulf
Set in a sand-swept Gulf city, Yellow Bus follows an Indian mother’s relentless pursuit of justice against an oppressive neoliberal ...
Inshallah a boy: a middle-class woman’s fight against the system
Following the sudden death of her husband, a Jordanian woman finds herself confronting an oppressive male-world.
The Burdened: a cinematic tale of misfortune and determination in Yemen
A stunning film that follows the journey of a middle-class Yemeni family as the everyday becomes progressively more difficult to ...
A long, unwieldy history of Palestine refracted in cinema at Berlin’s Arab Film Festival
Palestinian lives and cause are spotlighted at Berlin's AlFilm Festival amid the ongoing genocide in Gaza and unprecedented censorship in ...
The Arab Film Festival in Berlin: Palestine at the heart of the program
This 15th edition of the festival comes amid criticism aimed at German authorities and the Berlin Senate for silencing pro-Palestinian ...
Bye Bye Tiberias: Lina Soualem delves into the the past of women who begin anew
In her second feature-length documentary Lina Soualem takes the viewers on a transcendent historical journey, exploring her Palestinian family’s past, ...
Images for the Palestinian cause. Jocelyne Saab’s early documentary film work
In the service of struggles for the self-determination of peoples. Lebanese reporter Jocelyn Saab's images reflect her commitment.
