Iraqi Odyssey is a documentary film directed by Samir and released in 2014. This is the second of a series of film reviews co-published with REORIENT.

In this introduction to our recently published anthology Beirut Re-Collected, Mashallah News co-editor Jenny Gustafsson recalls an encounter with the residents of Shatila, a Palestinian refugee camp in Lebanon.

What if humans could overcome mortality? This question is at the core of Lebanese writer and director Darine Hotait’s the short science fiction movie Orb.

Movies screened at the 17th Arab Film Festival in San Francisco, finding new pathways to narrate conditions in the Arab universe of life.

Mera Karachi Mobile Cinema is a collaborative initiative between various marginalised and migrant communities to organise free screenings of short films made with cell phones using a rickshaw-powered projector.

Üit Kıvanç’s black-and-white pictures from Zonguldak, a Black Sea region where coal mines have been operating for almost two centuries, have been taken between 1983 and 1985.

L’Algérie, cette année, a eu 50 ans, et Lamine Ammar-Khodja fait le pari de raconter cette date historique sous forme de chroniques filmées à la première personne

This year, Algeria turned 50. Algerian filmmaker Lamine Ammar-Khodja aims at telling this historical moment through a series of first-person chronicles.

Egypt’s Faten Hamama, one of Arab cinema’s great legends and known the 50s & 60s as ‘The Lady of the Arabic Screen’, is still recording movies.

Monopoly, a short movie by Bader Al-Homoud. This one goes out to every citizen in Saudi Arabia sleeping under a roof that’s not her/his own.