Kaleem Aftab

Gurinder Chadha tells us how the trauma of India’s partition still runs through generations of Indian and Pakistani families today.

While the performance cannot be faulted, the same cannot be said of Washington’s direction in his third gig behind the camera.

Panellists discussed the challenges facing the Arab film industry and innovative ways to build an audience for Arabic-language movies in the region and beyond.

Lego Batman, a spin-off for the breakout hero of 2014’s The Lego Movie, restores some of this kitsch colour – and sense of fun – with initially brilliant results.

First-time filmmaker Atef Ben Bouzid’s affectionate portrait follows Salah in the three weeks leading up to the Cairo Jazz Festival, which he organises.

Haddon Hall: When David Invented Bowie is a graphic novel that tells the story of the creation of the songs for his seminal albums The Man Who Sold the World in 1970 and 1971’s Hunky Dory.

The Flaming Lips are renowned for their joyful, childlike innocence, with the lead man Coyne wearing extravagant costumes on stage.

Adapted from a book by Patrick Ness, A Monster Calls tells the story of a boy trying to cope with the news his mother has cancer.

Meryl Streep plays Florence Foster Jenkins, a real life New York socialite who used her power, influence and money to perform opera concerts despite having a singing voice roughly the equivalent of a pneumatic drill.

Hugh Grant and director Stephen Frears talk about their new film Florence Foster Jenkins, which stars Meryl Streep as the notoriously bad real-life 20th-century New York opera singer.

Director Ken Loach tells us about the political backdrop to his latest film, I, Daniel Blake, which explores how the poor in Britain are being failed by the welfare state.

The award-winning Tunisian drama stars Majd Mastoura and is directed by Mohamed Ben Attia,

Shubhashish Bhutiani's debut features has its regional premiere at Dubai International Film Festival.

Many films have tried to fathom why young people in Europe are attracted to radical Islam, but few have managed to do so with the style and pathos of Layla M.

The film blends rap music, a road movie and Islamophobia to hold a mirror up to French society, with amusing and at times confrontational results.