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NAZA is truly one of the most powerful films you will ever see
The new documentary from Oscar-winners Yuval Abraham and Rachel Szor may change minds and inspire action. It can also leave audiences devastated and no better equipped to alter what they have witnessed
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Knife brings the real human tragedy of Salman Rushdie’s stabbing into the light
Director Alex Gibney’s documentary offers an intimate, nuanced and moving view of the author’s life after the shocking 2022 attack
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The legacy of 9/11 on film and TV
From Homeland to The Reluctant Fundamentalist, Leila Latif looks back at how the terror attacks changed the way Muslims were portrayed on our screens
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Hanging By a Wire documents Pakistan cable car rescue like an action thriller
It’s a story of tremendous heroism, but director Mohammed Ali Naqvi never lets that obscure the neglect that put the eight passengers 900 feet above a ravine in the first place
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President Curtis is a brilliant swipe at US exceptionalism and the impunity its leaders face
The Rick and Morty spin-off turns the presidency into a surreal workplace comedy, where cryptids, conspiracies and extraterrestrial crises are matters of national security
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Film-makers Meriem Bennani and Orian Barki on their debut animated feature, Bouchra
Based on Bennani’s own experience, Bouchra follows a queer artist navigating the quiet compromises and tensions that define her relationship with her mother
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My Father and Qaddafi: the story Hollywood never let Libyans tell
Jihan K’s documentary on her family’s search for her father — Libya’s former foreign minister, disappeared in 1993 — lets a Libyan tell you who she and her people actually are
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Misan Harriman: ‘My worldview is just basic recognition of the tenets of humanity’
The photographer and film-maker on Shoot the People, the documentary and ‘opus of hope’ about his work as a chronicler of resistance
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Life Support director Daniele Rugo: ‘You want to cancel me? We’ll continue speaking up’
Rugo’s documentary follows a group of British doctors who made repeated missions into Gaza’s hospitals, becoming ‘the sole international observers’ of the two years of Israel’s war
