Hussein Fahmy: A man with a mission – and the charisma to make things happen  As the Cairo International Film Festival celebrates its 47th edition, its president, distinguished Egyptian actor Hussein...

Dir: Rafael Manuel | Drama | Philippines, Singapore, UK, France, Netherlands, 2026, 100’ / Filipino, Ilokano  Reviewed by Peter Herbert Filipinana is entirely set in one day, as teen girl Isabel (Joyybell...

Dir: Ashgan El-Hamus | Drama 2026 84’ Set on the outskirts of Cairo, Al Baraneya centres on Amal, a pregnant woman living within an extended family whose domestic life is thrown...

Dir: Ahmad Abdalla | Drama 2026 Berlin may be one of Europe’s most cosmopolitan cities, but you would hardly know it from Ahmad Abdalla’s BerleeN_, a film about three Arab migrants whose...

Masterclass with Matteo Garrone From the gritty social realism of Gomorrah to the dark fairy-tale worlds of Pinocchio and the human odyssey of Io Capitano, the Italian director has fashioned one...

Dir: Ali Toffan Al-Fatlawi | Mystery Drama 2026 | 120’| The Iraqi marshlands, with their seemingly endless waterways, towering reeds and mysterious expanses of water, provide a tranquil setting for Ali...

Dir: Soraya Akhlaghi and Mehrdad Oskouei | Drama 2026 A Fox Under a Pink Moon: An inspiring journey of survival and imagination A fox for a travelling companion, a pink moon for...

Dir: Itab Azzam, Jack MacInnes | Doc: 2026 in a Million: A decade of exile, adolescence and the search for home Spanning a decade of extraordinary upheaval, One in a Million turns...

Dir| Marine Atlan | France  Drama 2036 La Gradiva turns a school trip to Naples and the ruins of Pompeii into an evocative coming-of-age drama, where the turbulence of adolescence finds...