Renowned Palestinian documentarian and archival researcher Mohanad Yaqubi’s newest documentary, Revolutionaries Never Die, finds its roots in an unanswered message. In 2018, Lebanese filmmaker Jocelyne Saab contacted Yaqubi about collaborating on a project. She died three months later, before he replied. Years afterward, working through 113 reels of Saab’s 16mm films, Yaqubi constructs the response he never sent. The result is a tribute to the revolutionary Lebanese filmmaker, her filmmaking, and a meditation on what it means to inherit another person’s images.
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Cannes 2025 Review: “Once Upon a Time in Gaza”
Set in Gaza in 2007, Once Upon a Time in Gaza is a complex genre-bending drama from the Nasser brothers that blurs the line between reality and cinema. Mixing noir, Western, and political satire, it follows the lives of Palestinians lived under the zionist blockade, where love and loyalty coexist with occupation and concept of martyrdom.
Rotterdam 2023 Review: ´A House in Jerusalem´
A House in Jerusalem sheds light on the experiences of thousands of people who have had to flee their homes during and after the invasion of Palestine.
Venice 2021 ‘Al Garib’ Review: An Ode to the Occupied
In one of the greatest must-watches of the year, Syrian director Ameer Fakher Eldin creates a visual masterpiece that pays homage to his motherland and its inhabitants.
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