Meet the year's buzziest new nightmares, from A24's "The Backrooms" to Neon's "Hokum." In January 2026, American life sometimes resembles an episode of “The Munsters.” The U.S. is a twisted, backwards ...

EXCLUSIVE: Watermelon Pictures has acquired US distribution rights to Algerian filmmaker Yanis Koussim’s debut feature Roqia, which had its MENA premiere in competition at Saudi Arabia’s Red Sea ...

Cotton Queen, by Sudanese filmmaker Suzannah Mirghani, has won the Best Feature Film Award at this year’s Thessaloniki Film Festival. The competition winners from this year’s festival were announced ...

It has been a whirlwind year for Middle Eastern cinema, with Gaza dominating every conversation related to the region’s cinema, from funding and distribution to the ethics of representation. At Venice ...

The possession subgenre has been in a rut for a minute. We still show up to watch these movies, but they’re no longer scary. At least not in America, where franchises have lost the recipes to what ...

In modern-day Algeria an ageing Muslim priest struggles with Alzheimer’s, to the increasing concern of his faithful disciple. In the early 1990s, another man is left with amnesia following a car crash ...

Continuing a great year for Arab cinema at major festivals — with films such as “Once Upon a Time in Gaza,” “The President’s Cake” and “The Little Sister” winning major awards in Cannes — the Venice ...

EXCLUSIVE: Algerian filmmaker Yanis Koussim debuts his first feature, Roqia, a horror based on the bloody history of 1990s Algeria, this week in Venice. Check out the film’s first teaser above. The ...