Author: Deborah Young

From Ground Zero +

In ‘From Ground Zero +’ the project organized by Rashid Masharawi collects new documentary testimony giving voice to Palestinians living in the midst of war, in which four directors vividly describe the atmosphere of fear and suffering in Gaza today.

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Mother of Schools

 A prestigious boys’ high school between Amman and the Dead Sea finds itself torn asunder in a growing divide between traditional teaching methods and the digital revolution, added to political tensions as the war intensifies in Gaza, in the Jordanian documentary ‘Mother of Schools’.

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Algiers

A hard-boiled cop thriller set in Algiers, Chakib Taleb-Bendiab’s debut feature about the race to find a kidnapped street girl packs a lot of fast-paced action, but its momentum hits the wall of an underdeveloped storyline and overly familiar stock characters.

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