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The End of Oak Street

The many references to Spielberg in David Robert Mitchell’s latest serve only as a reminder that Spielberg would more delicately handle the disparate tones of this dysfunctional-family-versus-dinosaurs saga.


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Sarajevo 2026

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Dua

Kosovar director Blerta Basholli’s assured second feature is a taut, ‘90s-set coming-of-ager in which a teen's journey to agency over her body means reckoning with political violence.

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All This Death

An elderly man in Beirut wrestles with grief and his own mortality in All This Death, Fadi Syriani's poignant and accomplished stop-motion animation.

Amman 2026

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Do You Love Me

Filmmaker Lana Daher filmically mimics the chaos, confusion and complexity of her native Beirut’s recent history in a whirlwind of archival montage that is at once stunning and indecipherable.

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Amarga navidad

El icónico veterano español  del cine Pedro Almodóvar ofrece más dolor que gloria en Amarga Navidad, un drama semi-autobiográfico y autocrítico  -aunque  de forma suave y delicada- en la etapa tardía de su carrera.

Golden Apricot 2026

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A Fire There

Doc-maker Marlene Edoyan brings a sensitive and poetic, observational eye to Armenian dreams of past and future on the Georgian border.