Be swept up by MIFF 2023’s stories from Africa and the Middle East, including a Teddy Award–winning queer gem, Jordan’s first ever Cannes entry, and the latest from Jafar Panahi and Mani Haghighi.
Africa & Middle East
All the Colours of the World Are Between Black and White
Love seeps through the cracks in this touching tale of same-sex desire in metropolitan Nigeria, which won the Berlinale’s Teddy Award.
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Deserts
In this Cannes Directors’ Fortnight hit, two debt collectors face the absurdity of their jobs while dwarfed by the majestic Moroccan desert.
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Goodbye Julia
A moral thriller set against a nation torn in two, which won the inaugural Un Certain Regard Freedom Prize.
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Hounds
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.
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Inshallah a Boy
The first Jordanian film to screen at Cannes takes ferocious aim at the country’s ingrained misogyny.
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No Bears
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.
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Omen
Four Congolese people accused of practising sorcery forge very different spiritual paths in this electrifying Cannes award-winning cinematic mixtape.
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Subtraction
A husband and wife get mixed up with their doppelgangers in this Hitchcockian thriller from Iranian auteur Mani Haghighi (Pig; A Dragon Arrives!).
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Terrestrial Verses
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.
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Tommy Guns
A deft exploration of the brutal scars of colonialism whose genre twists and turns give new meaning to ‘the horror of war’.
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