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‘All The Mountains Give’: Edinburgh Review
Kurdish smugglers eke out an existence in the Iran/Iraq borderlands in this impressive documentary filmed over six years
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‘Searching For Amani’: Raindance Review
Doc follows a 13 year-old boy’s quest to track down the murderers of his father in Kenya’s Laikipia county
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‘The Seed Of The Sacred Fig’: Cannes Review
Mohammad Rasoulof delivers a flawed but urgent exposure of the societal tensions within Iran
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‘On Becoming A Guinea Fowl’: Cannes Review
A young Zambian woman confronts long-buried family secrets in Rungano Nyoni’s second feature
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‘Dahomey’: Berlin Review
The repatriation of stolen treasures to Benin provokes this agile, cerebral documentary by Mati Diop
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‘Voy! Voy! Voy!’: Rotterdam Review
A desperate man fakes his way onto a Europe-bound blind football team in this Egyptian adventure based on real events
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‘Shoshana’: Toronto Review
Michael Winterbottom carefully recreates Tel Aviv in the 1930s, where much of the tensions that affect Israel today are starting to bubble over
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‘Tatami’: Venice Review
An Iran/Israel collaboration results in a first-class bout with politics in this tense judo drama
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‘Sira’: Berlin Review
A kidnapped woman fights for survival in Apolline Traoré’s north Africa-set Berlin award winner
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‘The Burdened’: Berlin Review
A struggling couple in Aden face up to hard choices in Amr Gamal’s abortion drama
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‘The Siren’: Berlin Review
Sepideh Farsi’s arresting animation, set during the Iran-Iraq War, opens the Panorama section at Berlin
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‘Our Lady Of The Chinese Shop’: Red Sea Review
Several stories intertwine in this bold debut set in Angola’s capital Luanda
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‘The Other Widow’: Tallinn Review
Tel Aviv-set debut focuses on a secret mistress whose life is silently impacted by the loss of her lover
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‘How Dare You Have Such A Rubbish Wish’: IDFA Review
Mania Akbari explores the depiction of women on screen through an archive of pre-Revlutionary Iranian cinema
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‘Free Money’: IDFA Review
Directors Lauren DeFilippo and Sam Soko document the impact of a Universal Basic Income charity scheme in Kenya
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‘Dirty Difficult Dangerous’: Hamburg Review
Two refugees find love against the odds in modern Beirut
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‘The King’s Horseman’: Toronto Review
Biyi Bandele’s bustling, vibrant final film is an adaptation of Wole Soyinka’s acclaimed anti-colonial play
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‘Beyond The Wall’: Venice Review
Iranian writer-director Vahid Jalilvand delivers a howl of political fury
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‘The Matchmaker’: Venice Review
Dilligent, focused and thought-provoking portrait of notorious British jihadist Tooba Gondal
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‘Nayola’: Annecy Review
Stunning feature animation debut depicts the horror of war from a female perspective