The 10 best Arab films

Fifty years of movie magic, from Tunisia to Iraq, as chosen by Omar al-Qattan, film-maker and chair of the Shubbak – A Window on Contemporary Arab Culture

Out in the Dark – review

This gay love story straddles the Israel-Palestine divide, but with little real depth, writes Henry Barnes

The Wall – review

It's hard to belive a film this minimal – part sci-fi parable, part feminist Robinson Crusoe – could contain so much, writes Xan Brooks

Paradise: Faith – review

Ulrich Seidl is still ladling on the sexual humiliation – but there are hints of ordinary human heartbreak in a trilogy growing in power, writes Peter Bradshaw

Night of Silence – review

The first 10 minutes promise great things, but this Turkish drama about an arranged marriage never quite comes together, writes Peter Bradshaw

Shun Li and the Poet – review

Documentary-maker Andrea Segre's first dramatic feature is a haunting tale of dispossessed souls – with visual poetry to spare, writes Mark Kermode

The Seasoning House – review

The British actors speak in thick See-yerbian accents in this queasy, cut-price Yugoslav revenge saga, writes Xan Brooks