Film

Pro-Israel influencer and actor share a 'raped by Israeli dogs' joke

'I was only raped by two Israeli dogs,' Elon Gold tells Lizzy Savetsky while promoting a film made in Israel

India bans 'The Voice of Hind Rajab', citing threats to relationship with Israel

Berlinale 2026: Arab and Turkish filmmakers deliver strong line-up despite Gaza controversy

Berlinale 2026: Films play second fiddle to Gaza controversies for the third year running

El Sett: Why did the Saudi-backed biopic about Umm Kulthum flop?

Daoud Abdel Sayed: Why the late Egyptian filmmaker was so important

With Bahram Beizai's death, Iranian cinema is orphaned

Hamid Dabashi

The President’s Cake is our favourite movie of 2025. Here are 11 other standouts

Israel's genocide in Gaza

The truth about October 7: Filmmaker Richard Sanders discusses his Al Jazeera film with Peter Oborne

Origin spotlights the 'banality of evil' - and we're seeing it today in Gaza

Myriam François

The far-right plot to destroy a French film about police violence

Jonathan Glazer and the need to divest from US film over Gaza

Caspar Salmon

The Zone of Interest: The banal dreams of Nazi settler colonialism

Hazem Fahmy

A car crash Berlinale concludes with a German witch hunt against pro-Palestine filmmakers

Berlin Film Festival: A broken cultural scene and the Palestinian question dominate

Memories of a Massacre: Documentary about Rabaa killings set for general release

Rambo in the Negev, a never-seen Iran and a post-apocalyptic Beirut. It must be Rotterdam

From Dormitory to Animalia: The best Middle Eastern movies of 2023

Why did Saudi Arabia ban the Palestinian keffiyeh at the Red Sea film festival?

Why Hollywood needs a reckoning over its pro-Israel cancel culture