Award-winning Lebanese director Lara Saba turns her attention from frantic daily life in Beirut –...

When two childhood friends – now grown up and dabbling in the illegal alcohol trade – find a cach...

Ali is perceived by his family and the people of the beautiful Saudi Arabian mountain village whe...

With a nod to Thelma and Louise, Moroccan director Yasmine Benkiran follows two women and a young...

From the creators of the digital series Al Khallat, which amassed over 1.5 billion views and defi...

Kamla is deeply committed to her work as a psychiatrist; her patients find her both supportive an...

Film star lookalikes are as much part of Indian popular culture as the revered actors who front t...

Born during a bombing raid in a cave swarming with bats, Giwar Jajabi, aka Xatar, was never going...

Kurdish Austrian Yesmin (Melina Benli) isn’t especially religious, but she wears a hijab in publi...

Two teenagers develop a close bond when thrown together on a family holiday in Quebec, where they...

Korean miniaturist Hong Sang-soo serves up his signature blend of awkward meetings, table talk an...

The year is 1972; Nikolai Ceausescu has ruled Romania with an iron fist for seven years. Politics...

Nobel laureate Kazuo Ishiguro relocates Akira Kurosawa's 1952 masterpiece Ikiru to London, where ...

So-young (Choi Syung-yoon) was an abandoned baby raised in a Korean orphanage; when she comes as ...

The crime-ridden Parisian banlieues are familiar from films such as La Haine and Les Miserables, ...

Elements of film noir, the traditional police procedural and political allegory come together in ...

The traditional Moroccan caftan is handmade from precious fabric, every braided detail individual...

Inspired by a day spent at work with Fide Fdhili, the woman who would become the star of her film...

Six-year-old Dounia (brightly voiced by Rachaf Ataya) is forced to leave her home in Aleppo after...

In 2013, all of France was captivated by the trial of a brilliant Senegalese student who had drow...

When he died in September, aged 91, French-Swiss director Jean-Luc Godard left behind around 140 ...

High-school rebel Tamer and his gang are mostly committed to smoking weed, messing around in clas...

Back in 2011, Melanie Georgiades – aka Diam’s - was a huge rap star in France, having clocked up ...

Mild-mannered English journalist Michael (Stephen Mangan) is trapped in occupied Palestinian terr...

Widowed Mrs Lim (played by veteran Singaporean actress Hong Huifang) divides her time between cos...