Lina Soualem's 2023 cinematic masterpiece follows four generations of Palestinian women, with a focus on her and her mother, actress Hiam Abbass. From upheaval and refuge comes serenity and sadness.
Set to the stunning backdrop of AlUla, Norah by Tawfiq Al-Zaidi has broken new ground for Saudi cinema with a story about two people who inspire one another.
Glazer's Oscar-winning film prompts the question: What would we have done had we lived during the Holocaust and known about it? The genocide in Gaza today reveals frightening answers.
With so many high-quality offerings in Saudi cinema, films must rise to a very high bar to impress audiences. Abdelelah Alqurashi's latest film falls short.
Yallah Gaza by Roland Nurier was filmed before the war swept devastation over the enclave. Beautiful but flawed, its airing in Paris helps keep Gaza in the minds of an apathetic public.
In a new Saudi film streaming on Netflix, Sarah's rebellious day-long adventure ends in tragedy, but it perfectly captures how Saudi women are becoming more fearless.
After nabbing the 2023 Cannes Film Festival's Freedom Prize, Mohamed Kordofani's feature film debut will be Sudan's official submission to the Academy Awards for Best International Feature Film.
Essaouira, on the Moroccan coast, was the grand backdrop of Orson Welles' cinematic masterpiece "Othello", a production marred with financial trouble. Still, it won the Palme d'Or at Cannes in 1952.
While 'Barbie' is repackaged with lukewarm activism and capitalism-lite, mostly succeeding in promoting Mattel, 'The Little Mermaid' offers an updated allegory on migration.
Staying friends with the Turks, Chinese, Russians, Americans, Europeans, Iranians and Saudis simultaneously is a big ask for Islamabad's diplomats, but somehow they are managing it
Despite the war's unpopularity, Trump seems determined to press on until he can claim a decisive victory, whether by diplomacy, force, or a combination of the two
French novelist Philippe Jaenada's novel 'The Unknown Woman of Quai de Javel' wins big, while the Prix Renaudot goes to François-Henri Désérable for his novel about an unlikely wine expert