Muslim International Film Festival

Kordofani uses the greater intimacy offered by the camera to bring us close to the characters and reveal the complex layers of relationship developing between them.

A magical realist tale which invites us to reassess what’s possible within the paradigms of science and Islam, to recognise the importance of entertaining wild ideas even as we see the danger of it.

An unusually intimate, exploratory film underscored by dry humour, Sky Peals has an atmosphere that you won’t find anywhere else.

Hesitation Wound is a melancholy piece of cinema but such an accomplished one that it is a delight to watch.

Some films take time to gather momentum, but there’s a sense of movement right from the off in Kamal Lazraq’s debut feature.

Karamizade is deft at capturing shifting moods.

By the end you might not only ask yourself if someone is losing their marbles but whose marbles, in fact, are the ones that are being lost.

Through its polite small talk and what goes unsaid, the film screams out for justice for Afghan women.

A sort of soft-faced tyrany abounds.