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‘Writing Hawa’ Review: A Portrait of Afghan Female Resilience That’s Stirring, Symbolic, and Carefully Curated

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‘Writing Hawa’ Review: Najiba Noori presents a handwoven portrait of Afghan women that is both poignant and carefully curated.
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‘Hijra’ Review: Shahad Ameen's Saudi Pilgrimage Drama Carries an Explosive Subject, But Insists on Defusing Its Own Fuse

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‘Hijra’ Review: Shahad Ameen's Saudi Pilgrimage Drama carries an incendiary subject but insists on defusing its own fuse.
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‘In the Land of Arto’ Review: Armenia’s Ghosts, a Widow’s Wound, and the Trouble With a Story That’s Already Decided Where It Has to...

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Tamara Stepanyan’s feature debut wants to marry personal loss with the scars of a nation, and sometimes it does, but it keeps walking its heroine into revelations she wouldn’t plausibly find — except that the script says so.
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‘With Hasan in Gaza’ Review: Kamal Aljafari’s Rediscovered Road Movie Preserves a Vanished City, Even as Its Search Wanders Off Course

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‘With Hasan in Gaza’ Review: Kamal Aljafari’s Rediscovered 2001 Footage Becomes a Road Movie Into a Vanished Land.
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‘Milano’ Review: Christina Vandekerckhove’s Debut Paints a Portrait of Paternal Absence, Then Drowns in Fragile Subplots

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‘Milano’ Review: Christina Vandekerckhove’s debut paints a portrait of paternal absence, then drowns in fragile subplots.
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‘Driving Lessons' Review: In Wartime Kyiv, a Father-Daughter Dynamic Shifts Gears

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'Driving Lessons' review. Director: Anastasiya Gruba. Cast: Angelina Samchyk, Kostyantyn Danylyuk. Short film, Ukraine, 2024.
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‘Kuchar, The Itch' Review: A Girl, Her Mother, and the Itch No One Talks About

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'Kuchar, The Itch' review. Director: Vaidaangi Sharma. Cast: Subhashree Sahoo, Neha Vyaso, Umar Sharif. Short Film, India, 2025.

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