Author: Adham Youssef

Jasmine Alakari’s engaging documentary follows an Iranian anarchist in Athens, caught in the tensions between revolutionary politics, exile and the possibility of an ordinary life.

Drawing on 30 years of footage, fimmaker Helena Treštíková assembles an intimate, darkly funny portrait of Czech rock star Bára Basiková, using the passage of time to expose the distance between romantic hopes, domestic realities, and public image.

A Palestinian woman’s attempt to conceive a child with her incarcerated husband turns into a tense and sobering documentary that questions the boundaries between motherhood, personal desire, and resistance in ‘For Life’.

Asmahan Bkerat’s intimate portrait of an Afro-Palestinian Bedouin family explores how displacement and racism shape three generations’s experience of alienation, generational trauma, and conflicting ideas of home.