Africa & Middle East

Love seeps through the cracks in this touching tale of same-sex desire in metropolitan Nigeria, which won the Berlinale’s Teddy Award.

In this Cannes Directors’ Fortnight hit, two debt collectors face the absurdity of their jobs while dwarfed by the majestic Moroccan desert.

An engrossing moral thriller set against a nation torn in two, which won the inaugural Un Certain Regard Freedom Prize.

Bringing echoes of the Coen brothers and Tarantino to the mean streets of Morocco, this Cannes prize winner is not the Casablanca you think you know.

The first Jordanian film to screen at Cannes takes ferocious aim at the country’s ingrained misogyny.

In this gripping blend of fact and fiction, revered Iranian auteur Jafar Panahi (3 Faces, MIFF 2018) decides whether to cross a line for his beliefs.

Four Congolese people accused of practising sorcery forge very different spiritual paths in this electrifying Cannes award-winning cinematic mixtape.

A husband and wife get mixed up with their doppelgangers in this Hitchcockian thriller from Iranian auteur Mani Haghighi (Pig; A Dragon Arrives!).

A series of formally daring vignettes about the absurdity and menace of state control in Iran, laced with both scathing irony and glimmers of hope.

A deft exploration of the brutal scars of colonialism whose genre twists and turns give new meaning to ‘the horror of war’.