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Brides: a sensitive coming-of-age film about girlhood and its radical edge
Nadia Fall’s first feature is more interested in the inner lives of its protagonists, two Muslim girls who journey to Syria, as it is in the manipulative geopolitics surrounding them
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Documentary chronicling a century-old nomadic journey through Persia gets a new score
Iranian composer Peyman Yazdanian is set to perform a live improvised soundtrack to Grass: A Nation’s Battle for Life
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‘You should make cinema, even in war’: Rashid Masharawi on From Ground Zero
The Palestinian film-maker on his latest work, curating 22 short films from artists on the ground in Gaza
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Venice film festival: the movies that matter are those that refuse to look away
Our columnist picks the top films by Muslim directors at an event where cinema collides with politics
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Rahul Kohli knows exactly how to command a screen
Rahul Kohli teams up again with frequent collaborator Mike Flanagan in The Life of Chuck, as our columnist celebrates the actor’s career.
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Sholay at 50
Ramesh Sippy’s seminal masala western is one of the most popular films of all time. Here, its writer and some of the movie’s biggest fans discuss its appeal
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My Beautiful Laundrette: restoration returns with renewed immediacy
Forty years after it was first released, Hanif Kureishi’s screenplay remains a shining beacon of British cinema
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The summer blockbuster wants to appeal to everyone but needs to deliver on its promise of including them too
When movies get it right — such as Mahershala Ali in Jurassic World: Rebirth — they remind us just how joyous representation can be
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Attack on London: Hunting the 7/7 Bombers — a reckoning with the narratives Britain chose not to hear
The Netflix documentary traces the social and political aftershocks of the violence that still ripple across society and reshaped the place of Muslims within it
