Hanna Flint is a freelance film and TV critic, writer and interviewer who writes for The Guardian, Total Film, Time Out, Syfy, Yahoo Movies, SyFy and other international outlets.
Explore MENA's cinematic creativity and diversity in our curated list of the best MENA films of 2023, from political thrillers to secret matriarchal orders.
Film review: Screened at the London Palestine Film Festival, Bye Bye Tiberias pieces together archival footage of four generations of daring Palestinian women.
Film review: Shown at the London Palestine Film Festival, Arab and Tarzan Nasser's Dégradé is a heavy-hitting, claustrophobic lens into life as a woman in Gaza.
Film Review: Screening at the London Palestine Film Festival, Tomorrow's Freedom captures the tireless Palestinian fight for justice. The intimate documentary looks into the life of Marwan Barghouti, the charismatic and imprisoned Palestinian leader.
Film review: Naqqash Khalid's stunning film debut is a striking critique of the British film industry in which Nabhaan Rizwan plays Aden, a struggling South Asian actor constantly type-cast and stereotyped in orientalist, 'yellow-filter' roles.
One week in, the London Palestine Film Festival 2023 has been met with critical and popular acclaim. With the festival adding two more days and extra screenings to match demand, The New Arab has rounded up some of our favourite films so far.
Film review: A tense, nervous energy runs throughout Moroccan director Kamal Lazraq’s moody debut Hounds, a compelling drama set in Casablanca about a father and son duo tasked with a kidnapping that ultimately goes wrong.
The 2023 London Palestine Film Festival is taking place during a critical time, as Israel's bombing of Gaza and the shrinking space for Palestinian expression highlights the importance of asserting Palestinian identity through cinema and creativity.
Film review: Whilst Jeymes Samuels's 'The Book of Clarence' is a refreshing departure from the stuffy, whitewashed Biblical films of the past, it nonetheless fails to hit the mark.
Film review: Iranian-Australian director Noora Niasari's latest film is an engrossing personal narrative about a young Iranian mother and her daughter fleeing domestic abuse who find shelter in a women's shelter in Australia.
