A report on the 14th annual Docaviv, the Tel Aviv International Documentary Film Festival
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Montreal-based Iranian filmmaker Sanaz Sohrabi traces a century of oil’s colonial violence and contested solidarities across three archive-based essay
The creative disassembly of the Golestan Film Workshop, Iran’s first independent film studio
Watch the trailer for Far From Maine, Roy Cohen’s deeply personal feature documentary which will world-premiere at Rotterdam
In this interview, the Kramer brothers discuss ethical challenges and considerations in Holding Liat and weaving consent into the fabric of their
In its first edition under Artistic Director Isabel Arrate Fernandez, IDFA highlighted documentaries that cross borders both geopolitical and
With IDFA-winner A Fox Under a Pink Moon, Mehrdad Oskouei evolves his work with marginalized youths into a remote-directed collaboration with
Heiny Srour, who made two landmark features advancing the role of women in liberation movements, is not shy about being a “first”
In this interview, Kamal Aljafari discusses how three tapes filmed in 2001 revealed themselves as a new film, With Hasan in Gaza
Alaa Minawi’s The Liminal gives an alternative definition of “immersive” from the typical technological, digital one. In his practice, the Palestinian-Lebanese-Dutch interdisciplinary artist explores the possibilities of merging installation and performance art. The Liminal—the first part of his speculative series about Arabfuturism—is a 3.5-meter wall with 24 speakers placed inside, programmed to take the audience on a listening journey.