Read on for the movies by regional directors screening at the 75th annual Cannes Film Festival taking place in the resort city on the French Riviera from May 17 to 28.
‘Holy Spider’
In the Ali Abbasi-directed feature, a man named Saeed goes on a quest to cleanse the holy Iranian city of Mashhad, murdering several women along the way.‘Mediterranean Fever’
The film, by Palestinian director Maha Haj, revolves around an aspiring but depressed writer living in Haifa who befriends his small-time crook neighbor in the hope he will help him with a sinister scheme.‘Boy From Heaven’
On the first day back after the summer holidays, the grand imam collapses and dies in front of his students at a prestigious university in Cairo in this film from Egyptian director Tarik Saleh.‘Rebel’
Moroccan-Belgian filmmaking duo Adil El-Arbi and Bilall Fallah tell the story of Nassim, a 13-year-old Moroccan boy from the Belgian municipality of Molenbeek, who is searching for an identity after his father’s death.‘Nos Frangins’
The harrowing story of Algerian student Malik Oussekine, who died in police custody in France in 1986, is the inspiration for the latest film from Oscar-nominated French-Algerian director Rachid Bouchareb.‘Salam’
Former French rapper Melanie Diam opens up for the first time about her depression and conversion to Islam in this documentary, co-directed by French-Moroccan director Houda Benyamina.
