Iranian director Bahman Ghobadi’s surreal and tragic love story of a Kurdish poet, starring the legendary Behrouz Vossoughi

Jehane Noujaim’s documentary about a Jordanian woman who receives formal education and returns to her village to make a difference

Turkish director Nuri Bilge Ceylan’s dark film set in the Anatolian countryside is about far more than just a murder

A look at the Orientalist movement, and the allure of the ‘exotic’ East among contemporary Middle Eastern artists

Sara Zia Ebrahimi talks to Iranian-American director Ana Lily Amirpour about her upcoming film, A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night

Doha-based filmmaker Justin Kramer’s story of ‘love, patience, and resilience’, documenting the life of Mourad and his family of garbage collectors in Cairo

Yasmin El Derby, Co-Founder and Director of the London MENA Film Festival talks to Joobin Bekhrad about the highly anticipated event

As Mohammad Rasoulof’s recent film shows, sometimes it’s better to be a stranger in exile than in your own country

A review of Roozbeh Dadvand’s short film about the last days of the legendary Iranian Prime Minister, Dr. Mohammad Mossadegh