British Sri Lankan director Chloe Abrahams’ harrowing, but clear-eyed and lyrical documentary, is both a cinematic therapy session and a feminist exhumation of family history told via three generations of women. The title was inspired by Chloe’s memories …

Writer-director Kapadia’s deeply empathetic depiction of urban and rural life in India profiles a trio of working class women in Mumbai. Prabha (Kusruti) is a hardworking nurse in a shabby hospital. She had an arranged marriage some years earlier, but her…

For obvious reasons the only novels that made sense to me this year were novels by Palestinian writers like Adania Shibli, Selma Dabbagh and Isabella Hammad. Ibtisam Azem is another writer I’m adding to this list as her novel The Book of Disappearance (su…