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Mediterranean Hater Movie Challenge 2026

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Following the Hater Club Movie Challenge 2026, but the recommendations were almost all from the US, Japan and Iran, so I focused on the Med and changed some of the prompts. Expect films from the Maghrib, Egypt, the Levant, the Balkans, Spain, and a lot of Italy. The challenge is to watch one every week and to write a review.

- Losers and lost causes
- Historical silence and oblivion
- People's relationship to the land, the sea, and the city
- Nuanced takes on faith
- No films by token MENA directors made to comfort Euro audiences

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  • A House in Jerusalem

    1

  • Mediterranean Fever

    2

  • Once Upon a Time in Anatolia

    3

  • The Terrorist

    4

  • Happy as Lazzaro

    5

  • Black Girl

    6

  • The Silences of the Palace

    7

  • The Truffle Hunters

    8

  • It Must Be Heaven

    9

  • Destiny

    10

  • Azur & Asmar: The Princes' Quest

    11

  • Corpo Celeste

    12

  • The Unknown Saint

    13

  • Umberto D.

    14

  • Gomorrah

    15

  • Harragas

    16

  • Attenberg

    17

  • The Weeping Meadow

    18

  • Small Body

    19

  • Quo Vadis, Aida?

    20

  • The Four Times

    21

  • A Prophet

    22

  • Caramel

    23

  • Distant

    24

  • Casanegra

    25

  • I Still Hide to Smoke

    26

  • Luzzu

    27

  • A Summer in La Goulette

    28

  • Man of Ashes

    29

  • L'Avventura

    30

  • The Flowers of St. Francis

    31

  • Eternity and a Day

    32

  • Egg

    33

  • Milk

    34

  • Honey

    35

  • Afternoons of Solitude

    36

  • Four Daughters

    37

  • Dogtooth

    38

  • The Wedding Song

    39

  • Murina

    40

  • Sundays

    41

  • The Mouth Of The Wolf

    42

  • Abou Leila

    43

  • The Gospel According to St. Matthew

    44

  • The 47

    45

  • Under the Fig Trees

    46

  • Zero

    47

  • Fiume o Morte!

    48

  • Fonissa

    49

  • Until The Birds Return

    50

  • West Beirut

    51

  • Landscape in the Mist

    52