• Familiar Touch: dir Sarah Friedland (2024)

    Manarat al Saadiyat Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates

    A coming-of-old-age story with real compassion: writer-director Sarah Friedland's story follows the octogenarian Ruth Goldman (noted stage actress Kathleen Chalfant – "an astonishingly nuanced, considered and graceful performance" said the Guardian review) as she copes with dementia and her shifting, [ ... ]

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  • The Village Next To Paradise: dir Mo Harawe (2024)

    Manarat al Saadiyat Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates

    The first Somali film to be featured at the Cannes Film Festival (in 2024), The Village Next to Paradise tells the story of Mamargrade who is struggling to raise his son Cigaal in their rural Somali village amidst conflict, natural [ ... ]

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