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A cinematic feast from MENA, a hundred miles from Hollywood
Only a hundred miles from Hollywood, the annual Palm Springs International Film Festival is an unlikely place for Middle Eastern cinema. And yet, even as this year’s festival opened with a special screening of Barbie, just as an American missile attack killed a Shiah militia leader in Baghdad, the festival remains a stealth treasure trove of films from the MENA. As chief programmer David Ansen, former artistic director of the Los Angeles Film Festival and past Newsweek critic, told The New Arab, "People come here to see movies they won't see anywhere else. We're known for our international programme, and Middle Eastern cinema is a large part of that." Now in its 34th y

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