Oscars

From Gaza to Egypt, Lebanon, Morocco, Jordan, Iraq, and Algeria, this year's Arab Oscar submissions explore stories of conflict, displacement, memory, and survival

Egypt's entry in the Best International Feature Film category at the 99th Academy Awards turns decades of Egyptian history into an intimate family chronicle

Winner of the Academy Award for Best International Feature, Walter Salles's film about a Brazilian family in the Cold War era shows how the enduring pain of forced disappearances affects the present

A budget film from last year that won ten Oscar nominations could have genuinely added to the pantheon of Holocaust films but instead feels contrived, crude, and long

Speaking to Al Majalla, the Palestinian co-director of Best Documentary winner 'No Other Land' says he believes that solidarity with Gaza's suffering was a factor in his film's Oscars success

The documentary about Israel's crimes in the West Bank deserves praise, yet the discourse around the film remains far removed from the heart of the issue: the illegal and immoral military occupation

Gaza, repentance, sexual fluidity, child abduction, and football through adversity all feature in these longlisted works that together reflect the social realities and hopes of today's Middle East

Shot in Toyko, Wim Wenders' film pays homage to Ozu and other Japanese filmmaking giants. Critics say this could be the German filmmaker's best work yet.

2023 saw a trend of films-within-films with cutting-edge directors embracing classic cinema

The stories of a musical composer, a physicist, and a Nazi leader are competing for Best Picture at this year's Academy Awards