Berlinale

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Film Festival
Film, TV & Music
Culture
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Berlinale 2026: MENA cinema shines as Morocco takes focus

Fourteen features and six shorts from the region screen across sections, as debates over European funding, authorship and visibility shape this year's Berlinale

Mariana Hristova
12 February, 2026
Yunan_film
Films
Film, TV & Music
Culture
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Exile, loss and rebirth in Ameer Fakher Eldin's Yunan

Mariana Hristova

Mariana Hristova

07 March, 2025
Tilda Swinton condemns mass murder in Gaza at Berlin Film Festival
Berlin Film Festival
World
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Tilda Swinton condemns mass murder in Gaza at Berlin Festival

The New Arab Staff
14 February, 2025
Alan O’Gorman is boycotting this year's festival citing Israel's war on Gaza and Germany sending arms to Israel [Getty]
Gaza
MENA
Live Story

Irish film writer to boycott Berlin Film Festival over Gaza

The New Arab Staff
22 January, 2025
How the war on Gaza ended our love affair with the Oscars
Gaza War
Film, TV & Music
Culture
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How the war on Gaza ended our love affair with the Oscars

Eman Ibrahim

Eman Ibrahim

12 March, 2024
Gaza War
Video

Berlinale winners ask Germany to stop sending weapons to Israel

The New Arab Staff
27 February, 2024
Gaza War
World
Live Story

Germany divided over 'Israeli apartheid' speech at Berlinale

The New Arab Staff
26 February, 2024
See you Friday, Robinson
Film Review
Culture
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See You Friday, Robinson: A disorienting epistolary film

Davide

Davide Abbatescianni

25 March, 2022
Shall I Compare You to a Summer’s Day?: An audio-visual poem about love and eros
Film Review
Culture
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Shakespeare revived as a daring audio-visual poem in Arabic

Davide

Davide Abbatescianni

18 February, 2022
Copilot (2021)
9/11
Culture
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Copilot: Is all fair in love and war?

The New Arab Staff

Hanna Flint

08 September, 2021
District
Tehran
Culture
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District Terminal: A dystopic tale of nihilism and hopelessness

Davide

Davide Abbatescianni

20 April, 2021
[Ballad of a White Cow [Totem Films
MENA Films
Culture
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Ballad of a White Cow: A journey for justice

Davide

Davide Abbatescianni

13 April, 2021
egypt women's rights
Sexual Violence
Culture
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As I Want: The abused survivors of Egypt's revolution

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Nahrain Al-Mousawi

09 April, 2021
Memory Box
Review
Culture
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Memory Box: Uncovering a painful past and moving forward

Davide

Davide Abbatescianni

30 March, 2021
Berlinale
society
Culture
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Berlinale: Exposing the polite fiction of society through cinema

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Giovanni Vimercati

25 March, 2021
Memory Box film -- ABBOUT PRODUCTIONS
MENA Films
Culture
Live Story

Berlin film festival 2021 roundup: The MENA films

The New Arab Staff

Sarah Khalil

17 March, 2021
Ghost Hunting - Raed Andoni film
Palestine
Society
Live Story

Hunting the ghosts of Palestinian prisoners through cinema

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Daoud Kuttab

27 February, 2017
Tunisian film opens Berlin film festival [Nomadis Images/Tanit Films]
Tunisia
Society
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Curtain rises on Berlin festival with revolutionary Tunisian movie

The New Arab Staff

The New Arab & agencies

12 February, 2016