Film and Television

Plestia Alaqad
Films
World
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Gaza's Plestia Alaqad to star in Palestinian horror film

Plestia Alaqad and Ahmed Shihab-Eldin are set to star in The Visitor, a Palestinian horror film backed by Watermelon Pictures and directed by Rolla Selbak.

The New Arab Staff
26 October, 2025
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Film and Television
Offbeat
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Film Workers for Palestine hit back at pro-Israel 'legal threat'

The New Arab Staff
14 October, 2025
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Film and Television
Offbeat
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UK Lawyers for Israel caution BBC, Netflix over boycott call

The New Arab Staff
13 October, 2025
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Hollywood
World
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Robert Redford: Actor, director and Trump critic, dies at 89

The New Arab Staff & Agencies
16 September, 2025
Jury member Annemarie Jacir in the 70th Berlinale International Film Festival, in Berlin, Germany on February 29, 2020.
Palestine
MENA
Live Story

Palestine names Annemarie Jacir’s 'Palestine 36' for Oscar race

The New Arab Staff
19 August, 2025
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Palestine
Interviews
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In conversation with Yousef Srouji, director of Three Promises

Sebastian Shehadi

Sebastian Shehadi

08 November, 2024
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Film Review
Film, TV & Music
Culture
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Lofti Achour’s debut feature, Red Path: On extremism and trauma

Davide

Davide Abbatescianni

01 November, 2024
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Morocco
Film, TV & Music
Culture
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Is there reason to be optimistic about Moroccan cinema?

Elisa_Pierandrei

Elisa Pierandrei

31 October, 2024
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Netflix
World
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Activists demand Netflix reinstates Palestinian films

The New Arab Staff
29 October, 2024
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Film Review
Film, TV & Music
Culture
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A Night We Held Between film links old myths to Palestine today

The New Arab Staff

Hanna Flint

25 October, 2024
Mahdi_Fleifel
Film Review
Interviews
Live Story

Mahdi Fleifel on displacement and survival in To a Land Unknown

The New Arab Staff

Hanna Flint

18 October, 2024
Dima Hamdan
Gaza War
Video

Dima Hamdan wins Iris Prize; speaks on Israeli pinkwashing in speech

The New Arab Staff
15 October, 2024
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Afghanistan
Film, TV & Music
Culture
Live Story

Kamay: A film dedicated to Afghanistan's Hazara community

The New Arab Staff

Hanna Flint

11 October, 2024
Khalid Abdalla - Nowhere - photo by Manuel Vason
Film and Television
Interviews
Live Story

Khalid Abdalla's Nowhere: Colonialism, friendship and loss

The New Arab Staff

Isabella Silvers

11 October, 2024
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film festival
Film, TV & Music
Culture
Live Story

Sasha Nathwani on creating Last Swim, a coming-of-age film

The New Arab Staff

Armani Syed

11 October, 2024
Gulizar_film_2024
Turkish
Film, TV & Music
Culture
Live Story

Gülizar: The Turkish film on navigating trauma after assault

Mariana Hristova

Mariana Hristova

27 September, 2024
Farah Nabulsi
Film and Television
Interviews
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The Teacher director Farah Nabulsi on making meaningful films

The New Arab Staff

Tariq Manshi

25 September, 2024
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Festival
Film, TV & Music
Culture
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Top MENA films to watch out for at the BFI London Film Festival

The New Arab Staff

Hanna Flint

23 September, 2024
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Film Review
Film, TV & Music
Culture
Live Story

Tunisian film Aïcha rethinks family dynamics in the Arab world

Mariana Hristova

Mariana Hristova

13 September, 2024
Elia Suleiman
Gaza War
World
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Hollywood 'dehumanising' Palestinians on screen, say filmmakers

The New Arab Staff
29 August, 2024
Nothing_In_Its_place
Film Review
Film, TV & Music
Culture
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Nothing In Its Place: The dark drama of Turkey’s 1978 massacre

Mariana Hristova

Mariana Hristova

02 August, 2024