Jordan
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Concrete Land
PALESTINE: Asmahan Bkerat spent eight years with a landless Afro-Palestinian Bedouin family outside Amman, filming a life built around animals and song that Jordanian bureaucracy is slowly dismantling.
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It is time for festivals to endorse a BRAVE space over a SAFE one
IDFA: What is this obsession with creating a «safe space» for upcoming film festivals that is now circulating on social media? Who is scaring the world's institutions to speak up?
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FIFDH announces 16 projects for 2023 Impact Days
Out of 110 international documentary submissions, 16 projects have been selected for the 2023 #FIFDH Impact Days. With topics ranging from human trafficking in Bangladesh to asylum procedures in #Switzerland to Indigenous rights in #Jordan, from child soldiers in #Yemen to reproductive rights in the #Dominican Republic#, topics of relevance across the world are represented.…
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The Syrian intelligentsia observe the destruction of their homeland
SYRIA: How does one survive in times of war? By forgetting, or by remembering...?
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Peeling back the layers of the Israeli-Palestine conflict
West of the Jordan River is Amos Gitai's first return to the Palestinian occupied territories since his 1982 documentary Field Diary. In his latest film he picks up the pieces where he left off – arguing that people is the change needed to make peace in the Middle East.
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INTERVIEW: A Day in Aleppo
How desperate it must seem, trying – like film directors frequently do – to spur the world into action to end the war in Syria. We have caught up with one of the people who are fighting this battle.
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A confident woman
Challenging deeply rooted patriarchal customs. Rafea: Solar Mamas directed by Mona Eldaief and Jehane Noujaim won the Oxfam Novib Award at IDFA last November.