Qatar's film industry is young but has punched above its weight through the Doha Film Institute, which has backed and co-produced work from across the Arab world and beyond, including the desert-set Theeb. Qatari cinema is still finding its own distinct voice, but the country's investment in film culture has shaped a generation of regional storytelling. See what Macca has made of it all below.
Rating: 4.0★
Few sports controversies have lodged themselves in the public imagination quite like the 1994 attack on Nancy Kerrigan, a moment so bizarre and theatrical that it almost beggared belief even as it was happening. A kneecapping, a rink-side wail, a disgraced champion, and a cast of supporting conspirators who
Rating: 4.0★
Sudan is not a country with a long or well-resourced filmmaking tradition. Decades of conflict, economic instability, and a cultural climate that offered little institutional support for the arts meant that, for much of the twentieth century, Sudanese cinema barely existed as a going concern. That context matters when
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Cinema has long wrestled with the Palestinian experience, but rarely with the scope and emotional weight that All That's Left of You attempts. The film opens in the Occupied West Bank of the 1980s, where a single act of protest by a teenage boy sets in motion a
Rating: 2.5★
There is a long and restless tradition in world cinema of using the horror genre as a vessel for social and political anxieties, particularly around bodies, identity, and the pressures of conformity. From the body-horror provocations of Cronenberg through to the folk-inflected dread of more recent European and
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